We rented the film, "Big Fish" last weekend and enjoyed it immensely. I had wanted to see it when it was in the theaters and missed it so I was happy to see it at leisure in my own home. I particularly enjoyed the Special Features, for instance, how they did the shots to make Big Carl look so huge.
The film was very much an impressionist piece for I could pick it apart on its history and its details, but that was the whole point of the film, that the inner truth of myth is more important than the details of the stories. I really enjoyed the oh so literalist son finally coming to realize that at the point of his father's death. His wife and his mother had certainly been trying to tell him. The scene when he is cleaning the swimming pool and sort of sees the Big Fish stirring in the murky waters of the dirty pool is, for me, the point when he begins to realize what they have been trying to tell him.
Aside from all of this, it was funnier than Hell.
The film was very much an impressionist piece for I could pick it apart on its history and its details, but that was the whole point of the film, that the inner truth of myth is more important than the details of the stories. I really enjoyed the oh so literalist son finally coming to realize that at the point of his father's death. His wife and his mother had certainly been trying to tell him. The scene when he is cleaning the swimming pool and sort of sees the Big Fish stirring in the murky waters of the dirty pool is, for me, the point when he begins to realize what they have been trying to tell him.
Aside from all of this, it was funnier than Hell.
