Title: Big Fish
Original: Daniel Wallace, Daniel Wallace,
Screenplay: John August,
Director: Tim Burton, Tim Burton,
Starring: Ewan McGregor
Albert Finney, Albert Finney
, Billy Crudup,
Jessica Lange, Jessica Lange
Genre: Drama/Comedy
Level: PG-13
Release: Columbia Pictures, Columbia Pictures
Release Date: December 10, 2003 (Los Angeles/New York/Toronto)
Duration: 125 min
Country: United States
Language: English
Color: Color
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1. Story Story Story
1. Wedge
"Some fish people cannot catch not because they are strong and agile, but because they have other characteristics. Among them is a'big strange fish'. When I was born, it was already a legend that it is the fish that most people want to catch in Alabama. But no one caught it. Some people say that this fish is the incarnation of a thief who drowned in the river sixty years ago. Others say it is a living fossil from the age of dinosaurs. I’m not superstitious or guessing. I only know that I started at your age. I've always wanted to catch this fish. On the day you were born, I finally caught it. I tried all kinds of baits, bugs, artificial baits, peanut butter, peanut butter and cheese. The ordinary bait is useless. I have to use what it really wants to fish for gold. I tie the wedding ring with the toughest fishing line. The fishing line can support a bridge. If it only lasts a few minutes, then I throw it upstream. The big monster fish jumped out of the water and swallowed it in one bite before it fell into the water. In an instant it bit off the fishing line. Now I am troubled by the symbol of my loyalty to my wife and she will also be the mother of the child. The strange fish swallowed in my belly. I went along the river to chase that fish, this fish, this big weird fish. We always thought it was an'him', but it turned out to be an'her'. After a difficult problem, I can open the belly of the fish and get my ring back, but by doing so, I will kill the smartest fish in the Ash River. Do I really want to deprive my son of the chance to catch this fish by himself? Fish, I have the same fate as it, why can’t anything attract it, but it swallowed gold. I learned this lesson on the day my son was born. The best way to trap an unpredictable woman is to help her. A wedding ring"
2. Father
, Edward.
He, a person who likes fantasy. His world is one fairy tale after another.
He loves communication and always has an optimistic view of life. He is such a person that everyone around him can't help but like him.
He tells stories to his children.
He said that he was born in a hospital in this small town. She just came out of her grandmother’s belly and fell off the hospital bed. Due to inertia, she broke through the door of the operating room and slid for several tens of meters. She smiled when she was picked up.
He said that he was very courageous when he was a child, and went through the eerie woods with his childhood playmates in the middle of the night to visit the witch's house near the town. It is said that the witch's right eye is glass, no matter who looks at that glass eye, he can see his final death. He knocked on the witch's door without fear, expressing his desire to take a look at her glass eye hidden behind the blindfold. The witch readily agreed and opened her blindfold, so the few children who went with him saw their final fate through the glass eye. Some died of a heart attack while going to the toilet, and some fell to death from a ladder when they were old. But he was another way of death, and his father would die quietly in the small river by the town.
He said that when he was young, he was talented, honest and kind, cheerful and lively, and had excellent grades. The performance on the court also attracted the attention of countless girls.
He said that one year a giant appeared in the town, who stole the livestock and crops of residents every day, which brought chaos to the residents' daily life and caused a huge impact. He bravely stepped forward and told the giant on behalf of the villagers: a big man like you should live in a big city, a small town like this cannot accommodate you. I am also thinking about leaving here to enter the outside world. If you want, I can accompany you on the road.
So he embarked on a thrilling journey with the giant. On the way, he passed a small town in a paradise style. The town is clean and beautiful, peaceful and warm. The grass is soft as cotton, breezy and feathery. There is no sadness but happiness, and people live their lives poetically.
He met her there, the little girl. That said 8 years old and 18 years old, 18 years old and 28 years old, 28 years old and 38 years old until 48 and 58 years old. This time, he came early. So she could only face the age difference and watch him leave.
He doesn't belong here, the residents of the town can't keep him, he is still young and still has to continue his adventures.
They met a circus. When the owner of the circus introduced the so-called giant (in fact, a big man at best) in the group to perform, he was very disdainful and summoned the giant, which was full of excitement. The circus boss had to leave. In the noisy crowd he found the man he was destined to marry, a beautiful girl. Time stopped in an instant, and he walked towards her calmly. However, just as his gaze touched hers, time resumed its rotation and left him behind at a speed hundreds of times faster than him. When people walked to Xikong, he was alone and at a loss.
He asked the circus boss about the girl's background, but the boss was silent. He said, as long as you tell me her situation, I am willing to work for you for free. So the boss agreed with him that for every month he worked, the boss would tell him something about this girl. Thirty-six months later, he accidentally discovered that the boss was a personal wolf (a man during the day and a wolf at night). He saved it kindly and recalled its humanity. He was moved by him and told her details, so he rushed to her school to show his love to her.
She said she could not marry him because she was already engaged. And the object is really his fellow countryman and his childhood partner. And it was from there that she knew a lot of stories about him. He insisted on pursuing, and was beaten by his former companions and did not fight back, and finally won her heart. And that childhood companion really fulfilled the witch's prophecy, and died in the toilet in his prime.
When they were in love with each other, he received a notice of military service and went to fight in the Korean battlefield. After untold hardships, with the help of the twin girls, he finally returned to his hometown and reunited with her. They lived happily, and a few years later, their son was born.
He said that when she gave birth to him, she was fishing by the river. The residents of the town know that there is a big fish in the river, and no one can catch it. But he used his gold wedding ring as bait to catch this thousand-year-old fish. He held the fish and said to the fish: You spit out my ring. The fish really spit out the ring, so he put the fish back into the water. At that time, the cry of his son came from the delivery room.
3. Son
him, Will.
He, like all normal children, goes to sleep in his father's magical story every night.
He was even proud of having such a father who could tell many stories that appealed to everyone's ears.
However, the fate of all children is the same sad, he is like everyone else.
Children will always grow up. And he has grown up too.
He no longer appreciates such a father. He thought that none of the stories he told could be true. He hates that he keeps repeating stories he has heard tens of thousands of times with others. He felt that he was stupid who had believed those stories at the time. He doesn't go home anymore. He fell in love with a French girl and had his own home with her. He still couldn't understand his father's honest way. I still can't understand that my father's hallucination is a comfort to myself.
Therefore, they did not say a word in 5 years.
He didn't return to the bedside of his gray-haired old father until his father had cancer. The Sri Lankan has passed away, and the charm does not exist. Facing his old father, he felt heartache. But to his surprise, his father still insisted on his fairy tale stubbornly. From the face of the dying person, there was no fear of death at all, because he said: When he was a child, he was from the eyes of the black witch I have seen that the scene of his death was not like this! He said: "At first, I felt desperate when I knew when I died. I was worried all day long. It was more uncomfortable than death. But when I think about it, when it's difficult, I just need to think that I won't die. Come here, what is death! Knowing the
date of his death is even more a good thing. He tried to communicate with him, hoping to resolve the contradiction between them before he left. But he found it difficult to do it. .Because he still can't accept his rhetoric.
While sorting out his father's former studio, he discovered the products he had promoted and a letter from a woman. According to that letter, he came to the Taoyuan town where his father and the giant went out to explore the world. A woman in the small town told him some later stories about his father and the small town. As the regional economy accelerates and the market space continues to expand, a highway has been opened there. The highway, the bridge of modern civilization, directly changed the living condition of this small town. People no longer indulged in the poetic life, and went to the prosperous outside world one after another, and the town declined. One year, my father returned to that small town. After seeing that kind of sight, I went around raising funds to renovate a dilapidated small town. She said that the giant also participated in the renovation of the town, exerting his physical strength and doing his best for the renovation of the town’s houses. She loved him deeply and expressed her love to him, but he said that he only loved his wife. She sent him away in a stubborn posture. Facing his child, she could only say: the first time he came early, and the second time he came late.
Facing her story, he was puzzled. Back in the hospital, he met a black doctor who was also an old friend of his father. The doctor said that every one of us likes your father very much. For so many years, he has always been so respected and loved, and he is very popular. I know there are many stories that you don’t believe. For example, when you were born, I performed an operation on your mother. Your father said that he fished the thousand-year-old fish with a wedding ring by the river. The moment the fish was hooked was when you were born. In fact, I know that the real situation is that he was on a business trip and couldn't come back. But if you want me to choose, I would rather believe the fishing story than the boring facts.
In the middle of the night, my father suddenly entered a state of dying. My father opened his eyes and said to him, I shouldn't die here, I should die in the river, tell me, tell me, how can I die in the river. He calmed down from the panic. He also began to tell stories, telling that he belongs to him, and even more to his father's story: You will not die here. I went to the witch a few days ago and she said, you will die. In the river. Tonight is not your time to die. You will live through it safely. Tomorrow we two will slip out of this hospital. You are in a wheelchair, I push you, we walk through the corridor, through the parking lot, I drive the car, and fly on the street, The traffic is chaotic. At this time, the giant came, he pushed away the vehicle that was blocking us, and we drove all the way to the river. There, all the people are there. I mean, all the people, all the people you know in your life, all your friends, are by the river, and they will all come to see you off. I held you and walked into the river step by step. Mother stood in the river with a smile on her face, like a real mermaid. When we passed her, you took off the wedding ring in your hand and handed it to her, and said to her, goodbye, my little fish. I put you into the river, and you sink quietly into the bottom of the water, turning into a big fish, swimming briskly, swimming into the distance.
Father left safely. At his funeral, beside the church in that small town, beside his tombstone, he saw one character after another in his story. Everyone is talking about him, thinking that his life is more exciting than the story. He finally understood that he recognized him.
Death is no longer an end but a warm continuation. His own child will be born, so what kind of story will he hear?
Second, the ear ear ear
There are some fish that can not be caught. It's not that they're bigger or faster then the other fish, they're just touched by something extra. A man tells so many stories, that he becomes the stories. They live on after him, and in that way he becomes immortal.
1.fish
fish. It is the legendary fish. The fish that has never been caught, is said to be the incarnation of a drowned thief.
fish. It is the fish that swallows the wedding ring. Edward taught him how to catch the fish of an unpredictable woman.
fish. It's a fish incarnation of old Edward. The end of the fantasy story, the so-called fish that is destined to turn into.
In addition to referring specifically to fish, Big fish also refers to extraordinary people. Edward is like a big fish, swimming through the waters to the distance, he is destined to find wider waters.
Life cannot be without dreams, so stories about fish are repeated over and over again, and even hundreds of times have been narrated by Edward.
His ideals accompany his dreams for life, like the relationship between fish and water. Fish can't survive without water, so what about dreams for people?
2. love
"When love comes, you will feel that time will stop its rotation."
What did I see?
I saw patches of still popcorn scattered in the air.
I saw him step by step through the crowd, crawling through obstacles.
I saw that she was the only one left in his eyes, everything that paused was a phantom, only her, that she was the real existence.
I also saw that the whole world was dim and lifeless except for his and her eyes.
I can't forget how he worked so hard for even the slightest news of her.
I can't forget how he made hundreds of daffodils, her favorite flowers bloom in front of her window.
I can't forget how his joyful expression at the time of marriage proposal instantly transformed into disappointed stiffness after he learned that she was engaged.
He couldn't forget the old face in the bathtub, watching her in the water. He said I'm going to do it all. She sobbed almost desperately and said that I think I will never get it done. They hugged each other in the water. Become an eternal and lonely posture.
"I was eight years old, you were 18 years old. I'm 18 years old, you are 28 years old. I'm 28 years old, you are 38 years old. I am 38 years old, you are 48 years old. I'm 48 years old, 58 years old you, then nothing disparity."
In fact, It's so far apart. Ten years is an eternal gap, so far away that she has no chance again. She can wait. But he will not. He did not give her an oath, but she did.
Encountered for the second time. She said to him that I love you. He said I only love my wife. She sent him away in a stubborn posture.
He gave her hope. She gave him what he wanted. They each get what they need. But why is the bitter look in his eyes under the parting smile?
Many years later. She said to his son that the first time he came early, the second time he came late.
He was chasing his fairy tales from beginning to end.
And the chase when she was young was just her fairy tale.
The little girl grew up and grew up, and the town changed and changed. Only the pairs of people's shoes of various textures and styles hung on the antennas have been greeted with sunlight for decades, vividly and vividly.
When he left for the first time, he didn't take away the shoes he had thrown on by her.
He left barefoot. She said it would be painful. He said that some pains are necessary.
He left for the second time, the same pain. It's just that painful people have changed from one to two.
Some love is destined not to be blessed, but there are still reasons why it is worth persisting.
Love and pains have the same pun, not only pain, but also the meaning of giving and hope.
3. Story Do
you remember those little stories when you were young?
How many waves are still in your mind at this moment?
What did growing up bring us. confidence? Mature? In the world? Or is it as we dreamed of when we were young-love?
Apart from the heavy memory, what can be compared with the innocence and simplicity that we have lost.
Why do we all feel that we are different individuals different from others?
It is because we have different memories. But to what extent are those memories real?
You must not be able to recall all the things in your life. But you can think of a few, a dozen, and dozens of things that make you feel that you have been alive and are still alive now. These things are enough to make up your life in your mind.
But why do you choose to remember these and forget the others? What are the criteria for selection and screening?
You can understand why the father missed the birth of his son when he was rushing to make a living, so he had to tell a magical story of a big fish to add color.
Life is ordinary. Why should we make it worse?
But life itself is always just a story. The person who tells the story becomes a story after all.
Are the people who listened to the story still there? Or have you grown up and don't need stories anymore?
Is it necessary to distinguish between true and false?
The important thing is the people who tell the story and listen to the story, and the connection between them. The story is the unspeakable bond of love. Fragile, unbearable to tear. But the inextricable connection between the two has always been retained.
From this perspective, whether the story is good or not, what does it matter? Life is like a story. Everyone spends his entire life to compose his own story. Until the end, no one knows what will happen.
What starts with the story will end from the story.
There is always something that can continue the beauty of the story.
Such as that big fish.
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