Big Fish

 I re-watched Big Fish again for fantasy week because I remembered the movie as being a refreshingly fantastic movie.  A few reasons why Big Fish was executed so well include, the coloration of the movie, the style that Tim Burton took to give you the feeling of uncertainty when it comes to what the father perceives as happened and what has really happened, the actors, and the refreshingly creative story.

I’m not going to give a synapsis of the movie because you’ve asked us not to do so but I will comment and say that it was a surprise to see a love story incorporated through fantasy without being cliché or too conforming. For instance, when one thinks of a fantastical movie that incorporates love you instantly think of basic points of interest including a princess, prince, and rescue mission to save the princess. But when concerned with Big Fish you see a dying old man who retells his life as he sees it to various people, including his son, his fiancé, etcetera, which brings to mind another point.

 Throughout the story telling of his own life story, it’s clear that it was not solely for the intent of explaining his love for his wife and how it came to be but the entirety of his life. Which shows that the writers once again incorporate another theme to the story that is the epic journey. It becomes evident that ever since he read about the size of goldfish in comparison to their tank, his life contains many adventures.  Ranging from him meeting a great poet who eventually loans him money allowing for him to buy a house for his family, to meeting a giant of a man and saving his own town’s farm animal population, without excluding finding the love of his life, Edward Bloom’s epic tales seem never-ending The movie will have you throughout a range of emotion and will leave you refreshed; for you don’t come by quality movies these days. Big Fish for me is easily in the top 50 movies of all times that I’ve watched, and believe me I’ve watched an immense amount.