There was a man whose parents had nailed many wooden boards to his room since he was a child, and there were only two slits left to see the outside world. But in the end, he filmed such a warm father-son affection in "Big Fish". This person is director Tim Burton.
His works are alternative, funny, dark, and full of absurd imagination, but they can always deeply move people's hearts and touch people's tears. Unlike Tim Burton's usual style, the film "Big Fish" uses warm colors and gentle lighting to fill the whole story with warmth. This kind of warmth in the images and the cold humor in the story are just right in harmony.
The film tells the deep, complex and unspeakable father-son relationship between Will and Edward, which is deeply moving. Because of this, many people think that this is a film about the relationship between father and son, and there is nothing wrong with that. But maybe more than that. Father Edward is a salesman who is too ordinary to be ordinary, but he has been telling unreal and exaggerated stories that make his life sound so wonderful.
There are many elements of untruth or rhetoric in these stories, and it is these that have drawn Will's displeasure. However, Will's final story to the dying Edward is equally exaggerated and unreal, yet it feels so moving and natural.
Perhaps at that moment, Will finally understood the meaning of these stories.
As the doctor asked Will, mundane true events or beautiful stories of fish and wedding rings, which would you choose? Will chose reality before, which is different from the story of the tiger in "Pi".
But, at the end of his father's death, Will finally learns that the truth of life is either boring or sad. However, the story of a big fish can make a father who cannot move to come to the river, can make a father who can't say goodbye to the world, get a farewell from everyone in his memory, and can make a father who can't move spit out a golden ring before he dies Return to the person he loves the most in his life, and finally become a big fish and swim freely.
This kind of behavior is just like when Will was a child, his father used his love and tenderness to turn his boring life full of challenges and frustrations into interesting stories to tell him. There is pain in the world, but in the freedom of the mind brought by the story, happiness and satisfaction can be harvested. The image of the big fish in the movie may refer to the freedom of the mind contained in the story or the imaginary world. Father is a big fish, his optimism and charm come from the freedom of his mind, he will never be hooked, he will always swim forward.
He was born as a fish slipped out, and he grew up to be a fish, even when he left. On his deathbed, he himself incarnates into the story itself, the free big fish that Will speaks of, rushing into the distance forever. And since Will told this story to his son, the big fish swam down along with Edward and Will's story.
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