What a loving fairy tale adventure movie, "Big Fish," a movie that claims to be Tim. Burton's most literate film. The calm tone, magical images, and fairy tale-like story constitute a wonderful fantasy journey, showing the imagination and poetic spirit of the world, and explaining the meaning of life. If you haven't watched it completely, of course, how can you watch such a wonderful movie in one sitting? But watching it more closely reveals that the absurdity of the plot is a bit annoying!
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The movie combines fantasy and reality to tell a warm story of affection. In the end, the son made up a happy ending in his father's way, also really tearful. An adult fairy tale about father-son bonding. Probably this is how many men feel about their fathers, from admiration as a child, to disdain and even boredom as a teenager, to understanding as a middle-aged man. When the son tries to understand his father's life story, he finally understands that the man's journey through life may be filled with exaggerated imagery, but in his father's spiritual world, it's all real, his lifelong romance and passion, and suddenly, the truth is no longer important, but what is important is the long-lost love and reconciliation between father and son in that moment.
So many of these stories are also true and false, and actually linked up a man's life. Regardless of whether or not these marvelous stories ever happened, viewers should end up choosing to bring it to a happy conclusion, just like the son. Life is so ordinary and tasteless, admire the father always optimistic about life, full of children's interest in positive energy is not lost, infecting the people around. Probably because of this, the son also transformed from realism to fairy tale life.
A father put his life's real experience after the fairy tale to their own children, random children grow from like to question to understand and then tell the story to their own children, which hides the father and son do not need to talk about feelings, which is the expression of the father's love. In fact, I left the deepest impression or goldfish because of the size of the living space and their own subsequent adaptation, which gave me inspiration, people are also like goldfish, only to go to a wider space will have a better growth and development.
Big Fish reminds me of a lot of other movies, such as The Return of the Child, Blindsight, and Mulholland Drive, but it's different from any of them. but unlike any of them, shines with a strange and wonderful light of magical realism. Much of this movie intentionally blurs the line between the real world and the world that Pops talks about, giving the characters he encounters in his own life new stories that are even more marvelous and optimistic. Perhaps the film's interplay of reality and magic is its greatest appeal: life itself is not good or bad, and what happens cannot be changed, but the way we look at it is what makes it worth living.
This is an interesting and symbolic journey of fantasy, which includes both father and son's understanding of family love, but also contains a profound philosophy of life, which is unforgettable. Life is dull and boring much of the time, and if there is nothing you can do to change it, at least give life the wings of your imagination. The story of this movie comes from the imagination, but it is touching, through another way to tell the hazy and longing between the father and son friendship, the picture is also very beautiful, especially in the town of Fondo some of the sets and art, the photography is also great, in the surreal part of the part all have a kind of hazy dreamy vision, in his work is more like, for Tim Burton, we want more.
Re-watching the movie 15 years later, it has been difficult to tolerate the fairy tale part of the absurdity to the degree of stupidity, the old have been unable to see from the reality of the story added to the story, can only be reflected from the story of the reality. It's not the fairy tale that's hard to accept, it's not the reality, it's the discrepancy between the fairy tale and the reality. The movie is presented to the viewer as a very strange combination of idealism filled with the American dream, a bit silly, typical Mr. America, glamorous over the top. I don't know if I just didn't get it, or if I just hate fake things. I'd be annoyed if I grew up with a dad this full of sci-fi fairy tales. Didn't get the father-son bond or anything.
Many people have said that for this kind of fantasy film genuinely accept incompetent, subjective do not know what he is talking about, the wife painted yin and yang, colorful suburban villa and a large lawn, and then a little bit of nonsense, for this kind of angle of narration of affection expressed some indifference. Maybe it's the fantasy theme that doesn't seem to sit well, and then the dad gets older and no one else changes much? How can I say, false said to be true, be believed is the level, really said to be false, not be believed is the problem of expression ability, simple things by the film was tossed around a big circle, but also did not feel the happiness brought by a different attitude towards life. Is it because a certain someone can no longer read fairy tales, or because of inexperience?