The moral!

Rating: Null/10 (16 January 2004)

OK, so I've been reading people's thoughts on the movie, the metaphors and
explanations and all. In fact many people on this site have conflicting perspectives on what the movie is truly about and what in the movie is real in what is fantasy. It occurs to me that Big Fish, which is about a son attempting to uncover who his father truly is and which of his grand stories are true and not true, left the same effect on its viewers. Here we are trying to distinguish between reality and fantasy, just like Edward. In the end Edward realizes that it doesn't matter what is true or false and comes to accept his father for who he is, and himself carries on his fathers legacy by repeating these amazing stories to his own children. Once again here the viewers of Big Fish are reitterating the stories from the movie. But what the point here is, is that it doesnt matter what was reality and make believe in the movie, just accept and enjoy it with all the great ties and metaphorical connections. Don't overanalyze it to the point where it all meaning is lost.