"Big Fish" is directed by the genius director Tim Burton. Although this film has inherited his usual fairy tale style, it is more grounded and closer to the reality of life. In the circulation of both fantasy and reality, it will appeal to people. It is commendable to promote a more positive and optimistic lifestyle.
"Big Fish" takes the tense father-son relationship between Edward and his son Will as the main line, using different characters to elicit his father's life story. The
film starts with a tense and contradictory father-son relationship, and ends with Edward’s dying father-son relationship. The film uses Edward’s narration, Will’s visit, and all the characters in his story after Edward’s death appear and see him off. It presents the image of a diligent, sincere, brave, kind, dedicated, and confident character to the audience, and also advocates a positive, brave, optimistic and progressive lifestyle to the public.
This film mainly tells the life experience of Will's father Edward: leaving the village where he lives to experience city life, while traveling. He met an old witch, a giant, walked through Fengdu Town, worked in a circus, married a French woman...
When he was a child, his son Will liked to listen to his father's various legendary experiences, thinking that his father Edward's life Out of the ordinary. But as he grew older, he became tired of listening to his father's story, thinking that his father's story was exaggerated and false, unable to accept his father's endless repetition, and lived away from his father after marriage.
After his father contracted cancer, the son returned to his father, trying to use his actions to explore the true life of his father. As he gradually understood the truth, he understood why his father was respected and why his story was so popular around him. Because my father reinterpreted the ordinary life experience with fairy tales, after all, no one likes ordinary life stories.
At the last moment of Edward's death, Will fulfilled his father's will with the most affectionate love. The son helped his father tell the end of his life story: After the difficulties of the road, he was blessed and witnessed by all his relatives and friends in his life. , Edward was hugged by his son to the middle of the lake, and transformed into the big fish mentioned many times in the story that would never be caught, swimming freely to the distance.
At the funeral, the archetypes of the father’s story appeared in the son’s vision one after another. The "giant" was not as tall as the story, and the "twin sisters" were not conjoined. Everyone gathered together, there was no sorrow, they were all talking with relish or patiently listening to the wonderful moments they used to be with Edward. The ending of
deeply interprets the theme of this movie about family affection and touching, which makes people cry.
keeps telling his own story alone, making him the story itself, and the story continues to circulate after his death, so that he will become immortal. Father Edward used his life to perfectly interpret this passage at the end of the film. Edward used the first half of his life to experience the meaning of life, and spent the second half of his life happily telling the legendary life story, bringing endless encouragement and happiness to the people around him. In the legend, he will live forever in people's hearts!
Here are some classic lines in the movie:
1. People say that when you meet your beloved, time will pause, it really is. But people didn't tell you that when the needle resumed its rotation again, it would be so fast that people could not catch up.
2. This town is what people dream of. If I settle here, I will feel very lucky. But the fact is, I am not ready to settle anywhere.
3. Have you never thought that maybe this town is too small for you? For me, this small town cannot tolerate my ambitions.
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