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| Big
Fish
Directed By: Tim
Burton Plot
Summary - Review 1 - Review
2 - CURRENT REVIEWS
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| Plot Summary[TRAILER] Tim Burton’s "Big Fish" is a film with a sentimental streak a mile long, about sons and fathers, endearing hope, larger-than-life fables and even about filmmaking itself. Its literal story jumps between times and places, in essence re-creating the tall tales told by the dying Edward (Albert Finney), and contrasting that surrealism with the Earth-bound cynicism of his son (Billy Crudup) who is tired of his dad’s exaggerations (or, as he says, “amusing lies”). But in exploring Edward’s stories, a strange thing starts to happen: "Big Fish" becomes the kind of innovative, unpredictable, unapologetic movie that feeds our imagination as few films have. In these tales, Burton asks us to think about life, about leaving home, the struggles we endure for those we love, the power of love itself and the magic of, if even for a moment, considering the impossible. There is a giddiness here of a filmmaker who will not compromise, of a story that needs to be told. We are in many ways like the son, skeptical at first, but later enchanted by a story that wants to take us places we have never been, show us things we have never seen and remind us of the days when we were open to such adventures. Finney, as the father, balances the film’s pretensions on his shoulders, imparting to his storyteller the perfect mix of humor and seriousness that lets us know we’re in a for quite a story whether we like it or not. And it is Burton who then runs with that balance, showing us amazing stories that, if we’re willing to see, connect in a deeper place. “Big Fish” could have easily become an absurd work that simply treaded water, offering mild amusements that resulted in a gaping void. But Burton is too good for that. He gets it, Finney gets it, and after we have seen the stories, heard the messages and realized the affectionate and limitless path Burton has been carving since frame one, we are thrilled to get it too. With perhaps the greatest compliment that any moviegoer can bestow, I want to say that “Big Fish” ended far too soon. I can’t think of another movie from 2003 that made me think that.  Check out Reviews, Commentary, and More at Zertinet.com |
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