Glorification!

Rating: 9/10 (2 April 2007)

There's no harm in glorifying everything a little.. This is stressed in the scene where the doctor relates to will bloom the events as they happen at the time of his birth and then tells him people actually like the version that his father( Edward bloom) tells everyone that involves the story surrounding a big fish that invokes in people the interest to listen to the story of the otherwise not so interesting story of the birth of will.. This is the scene where the essence of the story lies.. The whole story is about the trade off between what actually happened in the life of Edward Bloom and what he tells everyone about his life. Everything he relates is the truth but not without a little glorification. Everyone except Edward's son seem to enjoy his stories while Will refrains from talking to his father because of his habit. But finally realizes that his father wasn't lying about anything and therefore starts liking him. The very last scene is the best scene by far in the story where we get to see the actual characters and we can make out the difference between the real life personalities and the ones in Edward's stories. The giant is actually around ten feet but in Edward's stories he is portrayed as a twenty odd feet giant which makes him sound dangerous.. Also the twins are actually not conjoined but in the story he describes them as having only two legs between them. This is by far Tim Burton's best film. The films draws comparisons with Forrest Gump in more ways than one. Both the stories are the biographies of diverse personalities. But one of it is glorified and the other is true both great in their own respects. Either watch the movie for its brilliance in creativity or watch it simply for the brilliant portrayal of the role by Ewan McGregor or watch it for its brilliant background score. If that is not reason enough to watch the movie you are missing out on something in life. This is a must-see movie is all i can tell. Enjoy!