excellent fairy tale that makes you think

Rating: 10/10 (27 February 2005)

I knew this film was brilliant just from the trailer. OK, so I'm an Ewan McGregor huge fan, but had the lead actor been someone else, I'd still love this film nonetheless.
I've watched this several times and it made me choke with tears every time towards the end of the film. I don't cry over films, but this one made me have to sink down my seat and swallow my tears. Apart from touching, another strong point is how the visuals are much like those of a fairy tale. Edward Bloom's world looks surreal but warmly believable. You'd want to believe his world. You'd wish your world is like that. You'd fall in love with Edward Bloom.
His relationship with his wife is very romantic as well. It's far from the usual shallow Hollywood-romance-type of love. Their love is very dreamy and daring, but is that not how love is? Their romance might be one of the greatest on-screen romances of all time, although it's not the main plot of the story.
And, this film makes the audience contemplate of whether or not they have lived their lives to the fullest, like Bloom has.