Big Fish

Stacy 2022-03-21 09:01:10

I was criticized during the day, and my mood was not high, so I planned to take a bath and read a book early to sleep. But helpless, someone went to Xunlei to take a look. The homepage recommended "Big Fish". I remembered that Dali had enthusiastically recommended it, and it was extremely boring, so I opened it.

Tim Burton’s films, the usual fairy tale style, adult fairy tales, think maybe they should be called magical? do not really understand. A tall giant, a mysterious and peaceful town, a witch with one eye, a colorful circus, and a circus leader who can become a wolf. All this makes me feel interesting but meaningless. But it cannot be denied, it is very attractive.

The film lasted for more than an hour. I began to doubt Mr. Dali’s vision, and then asked the director with the chicken coo head: Is this Tim Burton, who shot the "Edward Scissorhands"? Are you already exhausted?

When "Edward Scissorhands" was released, I was less than ten years old. I watched the movie for the first time after more than ten years, and I was still moved to the point of being touched. John Depp's face is covered with thick powder, and his arms grow like tableware-like hands. He has no expression on his face, his heart is pure, he is clever, he is just a robot. Unforgivable, he has the feelings of ordinary people, he fell in love with a girl.

However, he is a scissor hand, he can't even give the girl a hug, "hold me..." "I can't..." is misunderstood, oppressed, and the adult world is definitely crippled. A cold and old heart crying with pain. Since then fell in love with this gothic man. This most cult man possesses the purest heart. This kind of strong contrast makes people admire them.

Pull away, come back.

Until my father had a stroke, I still hadn't guessed the end of the show. I think that my father is indeed a stranger. Compared with his difference, the more important thing is that this drama should have a happy ending: father and son are free of their predecessors, grandchildren are born, they are happy, and they share a family relationship. The father occasionally instigated a few familiar paragraphs in front of his grandson. The son smiled helplessly and shook his head, but he was no longer harsh.

Before my father had a stroke, I thought this was the best ending.

The turning point of the matter was that his father had a stroke and was admitted to the hospital. And the son has only just begun to come into contact with the essence of the father. At that time, the son who was left behind was still obsessed with: I only want the most ordinary and true reality. The reality is: the father missed the birth of his son, and he was very upset. The legendary version is a gift he wants to give to his son. While everyone is preventing my father from continuing to tell his legend, I still have no affection for this old man who is lying in bed: I also don't like a person who is full of lies but still shameless. At this moment, it was a little shaken.

When my father died, he returned to light. Blood is thicker than water, and the son is flustered. Reviewing with his father, he had heard the changeable ending: he took his father to escape from the hospital, and everyone saw him off. There was no sorrow. He finally turned into a big fish and swam in the bottom of the river. Everyone was laughing, he would never feel dry again. I cried all the way, not knowing whether it was because of the love between father and son, or because of not seeing the death of others.

What makes it so obvious is that the funeral is held. Sure enough, there was a circus leader, and then there were giants, poets, and twin sisters, who turned out to be beautiful twins. The exaggerated fairy tales found their prototypes one by one at the funeral. Only then did he understand the meaning of what his mother said. She said: Not all what your father said are false. The mourners did not feel sad, they talked eagerly, what are they talking about? Father's happiness? Father's optimism? Father's infectiousness? Or is it a fairy tale life of the father?

No need to know. In short, everyone is like a father, living happily and sunny, which is enough.

With the birth of his grandson, his son finally became a father. The grandson also became a son. The story continues, immortality is still spreading. There are Big Fish swimming from the bottom of the pool.

I believe that my father actually became a fish.

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  • Ernie 2022-03-25 09:01:05

    The magic realism version of "Forrest Gump"? Although I think A-Gump is already very magical. From the perspective of the son, it is not only the father’s back that is drifting away, but the giants, witches, and strange fish are all products of the pure Puritan faith. Relationship), in this sense, "Big Fish" is more like an Electra regret for the gone southern pastoral life.

  • Bryana 2022-03-22 09:01:10

    "No one escapes to the end of life." The father is like the big fish, yearning for the most ardent freedom and longing for life, and he has been chasing it all his life, and those bizarre stories, true or false, have become indispensable in the life of children and grandchildren. Lack of spiritual wealth. "In the end, he also became the story itself and became immortal."

Big Fish quotes

  • [talking about the witch]

    Zacky Price (Age 10): She'll make soap out of you. That's what she does. She makes soap out of people.

  • Senior Ed Bloom: Most men, they'll tell you a story straight through. It won't be complicated, but it won't be interesting either.