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Rating: In a world like today’s where life moves at lightning speed, we all need a little moment to stop and take things a bit less seriously.
Since childhood, we have indeed been taught that duty, obedience, respect, and above all, responsibility, are values to pursue and achieve at all costs. There was no room for fairy tales, fantastic metaphors, or the off-key lullabies to make us sleep.
At most, sometimes, we were told about the bogeyman or some unspecified ghost with the educational aim of instilling the fear of not peeing outside the toilet or not peeking into the drawer where money was kept. Having as a reference point the aforementioned values, typical of the traditional family, one grows up solid, rational, and thus with a well-anchored head on their shoulders.
But, perhaps, a bit sad.
Sad because, very often, there are no more dreams to chase, in fact, one is almost afraid of them. The goal (not the dream) is the classic one of studying, finding a good job, starting a family, and all this because only in this way does one become a respectable person. Basically, a kind of video game where, after defeating the final monster, you move on to the next level and so on. However, luckily, every now and then, a person full of dreams and ideals, who has so much poetry and imagination inside, bursts into your life, completely upsetting it, and coloring and filling your days in an intense way.
“Big Fish” makes us understand how this aspect is also fundamental.
Obviously, in everyday life, no one expects to meet an angel who tells you fantastic stories of more or less good monsters, of cities where time seems to have stopped, and where shoes have no utility because of how soft the grass you step on is, of the woman who, at first glance, you already know to be the love of your life, of the surreal adventures gone through to live this love, of that big fish swimming in the river that no one will ever catch.
But, in all sincerity, would you, at times, prefer a barren reality or a slightly embroidered fantastic tale? Will understood the meaning of this answer when his father Ed was reaching the end of his earthly journey. It was not, however, too late. Having grasped that bit of imagination and poetry that his father had constantly sown with his parables throughout his life, he helped him to end that journey in the best way, which is to take the river's current again to continue avoiding capture attempts and, with it, becoming even bigger.
Based on a novel by Daniel Wallace, "Big Fish" is certainly the most beautiful contemporary fairy tale that only a visionary genius like Tim Burton could create. An emotional film, a surreal and delicate work that overflows with romance in every metaphor and every story. A flash of light as only someone with a little of Ed's creativity and imagination can bring into the life made of canonical schemes and rules of each of us, whether such a person is a parent, a friend, or a girl.
Because "by telling his stories over and over, a man becomes those stories. They continue to live on after him. And, in this way, he becomes immortal...”
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