A Story that you never going to forget

Rating: 10/10 (30 April 2007)

And i say it for my own experience, because i see this movie i watched this movie more than two years ago, and in spite of that i can write this commentary without problem, i never going to forget "Big Fish"
Tim Burton surprise in each movie that he makes, sometimes for good ("Bettlejuice" "The Nightmare Before Christmas", "Pee Wee's Big Adventure", "Ed Wood", "Edward Scissorhands" and i hope that he do it again with the dark Sondheim's musical adaptation "Sweeney Todd"), sometimes for bad ("Planet of the Apes" and "Sleepy Hollow"). And without doubt of it and happy i can say that "Big Fish" is, not only the best movie that he ever made, is too one of the best movies that i have ever seen and it probably (No matters if I'm going to a topic that is so discussed) one of the best movies ever made.
The story of "Big Fish", which was based it in the novel by Daniel Wallace, talk us about Will, who has lost affection for his father. One day, he receives a phone call from his family... his father is dying. He remembers then what was the cause of that lose of affection: Will hates when his father entertains all telling them all the stories of his youth. All of that stories are fantastic ones. Will hates it. When he was a kid he loves it. But now he hates it. When Will go to home again to take care to his father... he don't know that he is going to live the most big adventure of his life.
Tim Burton's "Big Fish" is a real nostalgic experience in a beautiful way (Few movies that i have ever seen, in spite that i have not seen much, makes that feeling on you, like "Smultronstället" by Ingmar Bergman, "Meet me in St. Louis" by Vincente Minelli, "City Lights" by Chaplin and "Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain" by magistral director Jean-Pierre Jeunet), makes it cares in the REAL facts that makes so important life. I talk about your father, your mother, your sister, your brother, your family, your family or the people who loves and you love too. "Big Fish" is too a kind of time machine that returns us to that paradise of our childhood that much times we reject as adults. And in spite of that you'll be and adult, you can enjoy all that fantasy, all that story that, anyway, makes us human beens.
This movie is perfect is perfect too in the direction (I think that if is Tim, is very obvious), the performances ( My God, what cast! Ewan McGregor who was too in "Trainspotting" and "Moulin Rouge!" "Albert Finney" "Billy Crudup", "Jessica Lange" who was in "Crimes of the Heart" , Helena Bonhan Carter who was too in "Getting it Right" by Randal Kleiser, Alison Lohman, Robert Guillaume, Steve Buscemi who was very funny here and in "Ghost World" by Terry Zwigoff, Danny de Vito, Mattew McGrory who was wonderful as the giant, Ada Tai and Arlene Tai who was great as the paper of Ping and Ting, with other magnificent cast) and the scenario is real beautiful, in any detail. "Big Fish" is a real masterpiece, not only of the contemporaneous cinema, too of the history of cinema. Of course is just my opinion, and its maybe that movie with a touch of fantasy, surrealism and at the same time about present time, where the human been makes a world of corruption, some people can shows that we can change it a little with a tiny piece of sugar of fantasy, we can change the world and our lives in an inexplicable way.
Thanks Tim. You bring us that little piece of sugar of fantasy that we need.
*Sorry for the mistakes... well, if there any.