Big Fish

Big Fish is a great, unusual and fantastic film directed by Timb Burton, written by John August and stared by Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup and  Jessica Lange among others.

Maybe at first, you can think it is a crazy film and you don’t understand it, but little by little it begins to make sense. At heart, Big Fish is a father and son story, decorated with all other types of true and fantasy stories.

Edward Bloom, a man with lot of imagination, is always telling stories about his life, stories in which we cannot separate reality and fiction. Edward, telling all the time the same fantastic stories, has made that Will, his son, is so sick of him that decides to move far away and not to have contact whit him.

But one day, Sandra Bloom, call his son to inform him that his father is really bad in the hospital. So, Will decided to go, and to try understanding his father and all his stories.

Surprisingly, the film ends while Will is telling his father the end of his life, of course a beautiful and invented story.

At the end of the film, we see that Will realize (searching in his father’s office and speaking with Jenny) that his father never lied when he told the stories, his father only exaggerated them.

 I think this film is quite different, special, a film that not everybody likes. I like Big Fish because it has adventure, drama, fantasy… It is an intriguing film.

Big Fish show us that life is the biggest adventure that we can have.