"Big Fish" as a work directed by Tim Burton, unsurprisingly still has a very distinct personal characteristics of the director. Audiences who know Tim Burton may know that he has directed an Oscar nominated Movies such as the classic "Edward Scissorhands" and "The Headless Horseman" all have a very strong fantasy color, and the films often carry a deep loneliness. "Big Fish" starts with the contradiction between the father Edward and his son. The son hates his father and runs the train every day. He has not told a real thing that has happened. It is always full of strange elements, like a Unrealistic fairy tales. The director also tells the story through the film, which constitutes the biography of his father's life and brings people endless thoughts. The narrative style of the film
is similar to that of "Edward Scissorhands". Both are carried out through the narratives of the parties, which is quite mixed. There are many unbelievable elements in the story told by my father, such as a giant as high as a house, a circus leader who can become a werewolf, etc., but with his father’s logical narration and detailed arrangements, it is difficult for the audience to distinguish the truth. False, did the father really experience these things, or did he make it out of thin air? The whole film uses a narrative method, allowing the audience to go back and forth between the truth and the story, and the fantasy of the film also comes from this. The audience also had doubts and wanted to find out the story of his father.
In order to create the atmosphere of the story, the color of the film is very prominent. When my father left his hometown of Ash Town and came to Ghost Town, the color of the film suddenly changed from fuzzy and dark to bright and warm. The green lawn and white house were very Showy, just like a fairy tale world, looks peaceful and beautiful but not so real.
Secondly, when his father was pursuing his mother, he bought a piece of yellow daffodils and placed it in front of his mother. The golden flowers created a fairyland-like dream in the sunlight. With the bright yellow, the love between father and mother appeared even more in the story. Romantic and beautiful. When returning to reality, it was the father lying on the hospital bed. The sunlight in the room was a little dim. We couldn't help thinking, is this the difference between the story and reality? Seeing this, the audience can't help but wonder whether the father's story is true, which paved the way for the subsequent solution of doubts.
Although the son pressed the father again and again what the so-called "truth" was, the father never changed his mind, and determined that what he told was the true story he had experienced and happened. Among them, the father tells that he saw his death in the glass eyes of the jungle witch. It is for this reason that the father is never fearless in the story, which is the core of the whole story. When his father encountered a giant crisis in Ash Town, he took the initiative to negotiate with the giant who stole because of hunger. He brought the giant to the city and created the opportunity for the giant to work in the circus to support himself, and the giant changed his own. life. He also saw the leader who turned into a werewolf in the circus. When the members were about to rob and kill the leader, the bullet his father blocked for the leader saved his life.
Finally, my father found his mother, prepared countless love surprises for her and made her realize that her fiancé was not a person worthy of her life. Later, his father rescued the Siamese sisters in North Korea and brought them to the United States for development; he returned to his hometown and helped the bankrupt Ghost Town regain its vitality, so that all the homeless Ghost Town residents returned to happiness and peace. Father has always created beauty for others, which makes his life look as wonderful as a fairy tale.
In the film, not everything is beautiful. It also shows some cruelty in reality. For example, when my father became a salesman and went to the bank to withdraw money, he became a robber in the accident, but found that the bank was already there. Empty, all the money flows to the center of the capitalist world-Wall Street. Reflecting in the age of my father’s life, the capitalist market in American society has entered a period of crisis. Many citizens have lost their jobs, and the banking industry has also been hit hard, resulting in a credit crisis. However, the father in the story still relies on his own power to help Ghost Town rebuild the past vitality scene, which is indeed much more complete than reality.
In addition, his father also participated in the Korean War. In the face of the evil war, his father adapted it into a weird and interesting story. He met the Siamese freak sisters and successfully completed the task with their help. It can be said that although his father is in the cruelty of reality, he still chooses to believe that beauty exists.In other words, if one believes in beauty, beauty exists; if one does not believe in beauty, even if beauty exists, it will be ignored. Just as the son chose not to believe in the beauty of his father’s story, he questioned the love between his parents and even whether his father’s love for his mother was firm and loyal enough.
The prophecy told by my father to see his own death is the only proof for us to judge the authenticity of the father’s story. It is the most direct relationship between the story and reality. How the father goes to the end of his life will prove the authenticity of the father’s story. At the end of the film, when my father enters his deathbed, the audience has reached the time to verify. My father kept saying that he did not die in the hospital bed. In fact, he was just comforting the people around him. He hoped that everyone around him would believe that his death was not a sad thing, but a destined end and The beginning of a new life, so that people around him will not be sad because of his death. The son got the truth about his birth from the doctor. The father was absent from work on the day he was born, so he made up a story of fishing with a wedding ring to make things sound better. At the time of parting, the son finally understood the meaning of his father's story—that is, turning cruelty into a good one, because life needs something different and self-hypnosis. In contrast to the other stories told by his father, the giant is actually not that huge. The Siamese sisters are actually just a pair of ordinary twins. Everything is exaggerated. The father turns the regret and cruelty of life into a beautiful fairy tale for himself and everyone. In the memory. The
son finally chose to write an ending to his father’s story. He took his father to escape from the hospital and drove the classic car his father drove when he was young. He picked up his father and walked towards the lake. The father fell into the lake in the arms of his son and changed. He became a big fish and swam far away. All those who appeared in his father's story sent him off with laughter and joy. His death turned into a happy thing in the story. In reality, the funeral is solemn. In contrast, fairy tales make death beautiful after all. Seeing this, we finally realized that our father's life may not be as smooth and fantastic as what he said. He just erased the painful and cruel reality, and finally convinced people that life is beautiful.
His father has made up beautiful stories for himself and others all his life. Because he believes in the existence of beauty, he also chooses to believe in beauty, and he also hopes that the people he loves can also believe in beauty. In the end, the son told the ending for his father, which means that the father's story will be passed on forever. Good things will exist as long as someone believes.
