Big Fish (2003) :
Brief Review -
A Tim Burton Human Fantasy CLASSIC that you'd want to recommend to children and grandchildren. It happens rarely, but I really crave those moments when I write movie reviews with tears in my eyes. Big Fish is giving me that honor right this minute. I guess that sums up everything for you all who are reading it, so don't waste time reading it further and go, find this movie on the internet or anywhere you can, and just sit tight for 2 hours. I must thank Tim Burton for making this one. There are some films or some characters that leave you with a question or a wish: What if I could live such a life? Is it possible in reality? The answer should be no, but I am angry at myself. Why not?! "A man tells his stories so many times that he becomes the stories." True that. Big Fish don't need your brain, but your heart. The big difference between metascore (58/100) and IMDb user ratings (8.0/10) will tell you why. If you try to find logic in it, then you'll be burned. If you just go with the flow and believe in this fantasy, it will teach you a lot about real life. The film is about a father and son who have a feud over the father's habit of telling adventurous stories. The son likes them all in childhood but starts hating them all and his father too in his young days. When he returns to see his dying father, he begins to know him better through stories he has been telling for years. I tell you, they are all full of metaphors that can't be described in words because the capacity of understanding will be different for every single viewer. For instance, I personally liked that scene when he sees his death in the witch's eye. Logically, it should have made him sad, but metaphorically, it kills the fear of death in him. You just have to understand every single thing like this, no matter how fantastic, weird, and unimaginable it is. Burton had made a film that would transit a message from one generation to another and then the next one.. FOREVER.
RATING - 8/10*
By - #samthebestest.
A Tim Burton Human Fantasy CLASSIC that you'd want to recommend to children and grandchildren. It happens rarely, but I really crave those moments when I write movie reviews with tears in my eyes. Big Fish is giving me that honor right this minute. I guess that sums up everything for you all who are reading it, so don't waste time reading it further and go, find this movie on the internet or anywhere you can, and just sit tight for 2 hours. I must thank Tim Burton for making this one. There are some films or some characters that leave you with a question or a wish: What if I could live such a life? Is it possible in reality? The answer should be no, but I am angry at myself. Why not?! "A man tells his stories so many times that he becomes the stories." True that. Big Fish don't need your brain, but your heart. The big difference between metascore (58/100) and IMDb user ratings (8.0/10) will tell you why. If you try to find logic in it, then you'll be burned. If you just go with the flow and believe in this fantasy, it will teach you a lot about real life. The film is about a father and son who have a feud over the father's habit of telling adventurous stories. The son likes them all in childhood but starts hating them all and his father too in his young days. When he returns to see his dying father, he begins to know him better through stories he has been telling for years. I tell you, they are all full of metaphors that can't be described in words because the capacity of understanding will be different for every single viewer. For instance, I personally liked that scene when he sees his death in the witch's eye. Logically, it should have made him sad, but metaphorically, it kills the fear of death in him. You just have to understand every single thing like this, no matter how fantastic, weird, and unimaginable it is. Burton had made a film that would transit a message from one generation to another and then the next one.. FOREVER.
RATING - 8/10*
By - #samthebestest.