About a year ago, I read the introduction to Amy Tan's novel Saving Fish From Drowning, and it contained an anonymous quote that reads:
"A pious man explained to his followers: "It is evil to take lives and noble to save them. Each day I pledge to save a hundred lives. I drop my net in the lake and scoop out a hundred fishes. I place the fishes on the bank, where they flop and twirl. "Don't be scared," I tell those fishes. "I am saving you from drowning." Soon enough, the fishes grow calm and lie still. Yet, sad to say, I am always too late. The fishes expire. And because it is evil to waste anything, I take those dead fishes to market and I sell them for a good price. With the money I receive, I buy more nets so I can save more fishes."
Well, when I read this, many thoughts came to my head--especially the war in Iraq, because the similarities between the rhetoric were too close. And so I decided to make a short film--a political allegory depicting what may be another incident of saving fish from drowning.
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