That big fish.

Cade 2022-04-22 07:01:02

I sobbed at the computer screen. William Bloom, holding his bloated old father, walked through the cheering and smiling crowd to the river. Wearing a pink dress, the mother stood far away in the water, smiling sweetly like a mermaid and waving to greet her. She is his eternal daffodils.
All the people cheered like that, as if this was not an end, but a return of glory, or, returning home, a passing.
Father folded his arms across his chest, as solemn as baptism. When it got into the water, it turned into the legendary big fish, and it didn't turn its head back and swam into the distance. At the funeral, those legendary characters appeared one by one, twin sisters, circus bosses, giant friends... In fact, sometimes reality and stories are really not that far away.
Why sometimes, we can't meditate and listen reverently to the old father, telling a legend a thousand times. Why can't we just forgive those loved ones who tell their own heroic stories with a little childish exaggeration when the brilliance fades away. Why do we keep breaking those dreams that can no longer be returned, and let those we love, and those who love us, fall solidly into an ordinary life that is gone forever.

Shortly after watching this film, I left my parents and went to the South to start my college life. In the few days before I left, my mother and I went to swim in the indoor swimming pool at home. Two men with good water skills showed off their skills in the swimming pool. My mother looked at them with sparkling eyelashes and said to me, in fact, your father's movements are even more standard than theirs, like a fish.

It turns out that every father is a big fish.


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Extended Reading
  • Sigurd 2021-10-20 19:00:55

    A fantasy life that is true and false, the warmth confession of father and son. Tim Burton's fairy tales always hide a touch of warmth in the grotesque.

  • Allison 2022-03-23 09:01:11

    Tim Burton can't shoot good things

Big Fish quotes

  • Senior Ed Bloom: People needn't worry so much. It's not my time yet. This is not how I go.

    Will Bloom: Really?

    Senior Ed Bloom: Truly. I saw it in the eye.

    Will Bloom: The old lady by the swamp?

    Senior Ed Bloom: She was a *witch*.

    Will Bloom: No, she was old and probably senile.

    Senior Ed Bloom: I saw my death in that eye, and this isn't how it happens.

    Will Bloom: So how does it happen?

    Senior Ed Bloom: Surprise ending. Wouldn't want to ruin it for you.

  • Senior Ed Bloom: I don't know if you're aware of this, Josephine, but African parrots, in their native home of the Congo, they speak only French.

    Josephine: Really?

    Senior Ed Bloom: You're lucky to get four words out of them in English, but if you were to walk through the jungle, you'd hear them speaking the most elaborate French. Those parrots talk about everything. Politics, movies, fashion. Everything but religion.

    Will Bloom: Why not religion, Dad?

    Senior Ed Bloom: It's rude to talk about religion. You never know who you're gonna offend.

    Will Bloom: Josephine actually went to the Congo last year.

    Senior Ed Bloom: Oh, so you know.