I love every aspect of just about everything Tim Burton has made. He is my favorite for sure. Big Fish would have to be my favorite of his movies because I think it’s story and the style in which it’s told makes it stand apart from the rest. It’s fun to follow and interesting to watch as you go through a man’s life as seen through his own eyes. The storytelling in this movie is larger than life is showing us that it all depends on how you look at things. I love Tim Burton’s quirky ways of teaching us things about life. He inspires me in all kinds of ways.
The movie is based on Daniel Wallace’s book Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions. This wonderful and unique story mixed with Tim’s amazing ability to grab your attention makes this a movie of mythic proportions. It is a tale of an imaginative, storytelling father who is on his deathbed. The movie takes you through his amazing life as he saw it himself; to me it is like a dream. His son feels that his father is too imaginative and has excessively fabricated every story he has ever told. As he furthers his understanding of his father’s life, he comes to find how real his father’s crazy life stories really are. The story of Big Fish has such an amazing and warmhearted feeling to it that makes me want to watch it over and over; it just makes you happy. It’s like a dream that Tim Burton has beautifully created where nothing is impossible and everything is more fun.
Ewen McGregor does an amazing job at playing the young Edward Bloom. He is as charming and perfect as the world Tim has built around him. It is so intriguing and fun to watch that you just wish his story could keep going and never end. But that’s what is so great about this story. It ends with you knowing that all people die but that some live on in what they leave behind.
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