Of tall tales and the big fish ...

Ever had one movie that wasn't a big award winning film like the LOTR trilogy or the Matrix trilogy but it touched you which very few movies can?

(Which by the way, LOTR was good but to sweep all 11 catagories it was nominated in... way too many awards for the last installment.)

Well for me, Big Fish was that one movie even though many wouldn't agree with me. It was really touching. All i knew about the movie before, was from the trailers i caught. I wanted to watch it because it looked like a fun movie to catch and just sit back and relax. Most of it's a fairy tale about life.

The star-studded cast with the likes of Danny Devito ("The Penguin"), Steve Bucemi (Guy gone crazy on the asteriod in "Ammergeddon"), Alison Lohman (fantastic young actress in "White Oleander" & "Matchstick Men"), Jessica Lange, Helena Bonham Carter, Albert Finney and Ewan MrGregor ("Moulin Rouge" fame), made such a unbelievable-believable, fantasy-real life story that you have to pinch yourself at times to just say to yourself some of this can't be true. *smile*

Personally, the movie to me is about life (duh...) more importantly though it is about how someone sees his life and even if it is a lil unbelievable at times doesn't mean it isn't true. The part that made me gasps and then go "awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww", melt and turn into a puddle of mush was when young Ed Bloom was standing in a miniature field of sunkissed daffodils just so he could win over young Sandra Templeton (Alison Lohman).

(By the way did anyone notice how Alison Lohman strongly resembled a younger Jessica Lange????)

The part i love most - when Edward Bloom was carried down to the river by his son and everyone of his friends were there to see him off. That's when you know you've really truly lived your life. That's how i want to go when Death comes knocking at my door.

I don't care what people think of Ewan McGregor but i think he gave a good performance in his role of the younger Edward Bloom.

(And i will give credit when credit is due, just like i said Orlando Bloom was stiff, very stiff in "Pirates of the Carribean".)

McGregor's portayal of the younger Ed Bloom was just right to make his character believable yet still have you question which part of the stories were true and which parts were for real. And Ed Bloom lying in bed being sick and dying does something what i think we all do at some points in our lives. (If you don't agree, then i guess i will speak for myself then.) I don't think there is anyone in this world who does not tell a lil tall tale just to make the story or incident a lil bit more interesting? And i am sure there are parents who do that. To me, it adds more life, more colour and vibrancy into ones boring everyday mundane life, esp. when i live in a city where at times my life goes in a clockwork routine : get out of bed - get dressed - get to work - look forward to lunch time - look forward to end of the day - go home - watch tv. And i see alot of raised hands and nodding heads on this one.

Funny, amusing, heartwarming and a whole lot of fun. This is one movie i want to take my sis to and hopefully she see how live can be as interesting as you want it to be.



A man tells so many stories,
that he becomes the stories.
They live on after him,
and in that way he becomes immortal.