By Austin C.
In an extraordinary story about a father’s bizarre life and a son’s drive to discover the truth, Tim
Burton attempts to disclose the importance of life, and he succeeds.
Big Fish tells the tale of an old raconteur named Edward Bloom, who endlessly recounts the details of his life in fantastic stories. The yarns include a prophetic witch, a misunderstood giant, a so-perfect-it’s-spooky town in the middle of nowhere, a pair of siamese twins connected at the hip, a bank-robbing writer, and a gargantuan fish.
Edward tells these stories to his son William (and anyone else who’s there to listen) throughout the boy’s life; including his childhood, college years, and even at his wedding.
William develops a resentment with his father, because he can’t stand the “fairytales.” How could his dad’s stories possibly be true?
After a falling out between the father and son, they barely speak to one another for years. However, once Edward becomes bedridden in his old age, William comes to stay with him.
As William spends time seeking the truth about his father’s life (from just about anyone except his dad), he comes to some discoveries about himself. He realizes that the missing link he has ceaselessly searched for in his relationship with his dad might have been under his nose the whole time; and that maybe his dad’s “crazy” stories weren’t so crazy after all…
