Luca Paguro – a lively, agile mermaid boy who always dreams of exploring the world above ground, is restrained by his parents’ supervision in an aquatic village under the ocean.
Luca’s Summer conveys many profound themes and sincere messages
Mistakes are the privilege of youth
In the film, Luca’s parents are portrayed as overprotective parents who fear the world beyond the ocean.
The parenting style of these two characters is typical of the Helicopter parent model – helicopter parents, which means always viciously controlling their children from above, suppressing curiosity and openness by both concepts: `The
In contrast to Luca’s parents, Alberto’s father is an absent character for most of the film.
In the case of Alberto’s father, his absence left Alberto to fend for himself and navigate the world without guidance and support from his parents.
From here, the film emphasizes the importance of allowing children to explore, make mistakes, and learn from their experiences, instead of shielding them from the world out of fear.
The film emphasizes the importance of allowing children to explore and accompanying them on their journey to adulthood.
The beauty of difference
One of Luke’s most profound messages is the importance of accepting differences and finding common ground in diversity.
Luca’s Summer is also an immigrant story, about outsiders longing to enjoy the happy life of a foreign land.
The film also offers a heartfelt adventure about self-discovery and the journey of preserving one’s true identity.
Luca offers a heartfelt exploration of self-discovery, embracing differences.
The power of friendship
Alberto, in a sense, gave birth to Luca a second time, by bringing him into the world, teaching him his first steps, first dreams and countless other first joys and emotions.
The character Alberto is a carefree teenager who believes that we all have a Bruno in our heads.
Luca – Alberto’s friendship goes through a difficult period when Alberto becomes jealous of both Luca and Giulia’s friendship and when Luca expresses his desire to stay on the mainland to go to school, because Alberto thinks Luca will abandon him.
The shared adventures of Luca, Alberto and Giulia also testify to the power of friendship to foster growth, courage, self-discovery and unite individuals from different backgrounds
The adventure is a testament to the power of friendship to inspire growth and courage.
Criticizing the status quo of status stratification and discriminatory prejudice
The Summer of Luca also touches on the theme of overcoming fear and prejudice, shining a light on the harmful effects of ignorance and discrimination.
At the same time, the film also criticizes the imposition of prejudice on people of lower class or no economic status.
However, the difference in Luca is that the characters in the lower class and not economically well-off are extremely hard-working people, typically Giulia – the only female character in the film who is nearly the same age.
And powerful people like Ercole in the movie are clearly lazy, violent and overbearing.
The film addresses the theme of overcoming fear and prejudice, and the harmful effects of discrimination.
All in all, Luca’s Summer is a poignant reminder of the magical power of friendship, acceptance, and self-discovery in overcoming adversity and embracing difference.
Isabella