The grass so green. Skies so blue. Big Fish is really great!

Rating: 10/10 (13 February 2008)

In the deathbed of his father Edward (Albert Finney/Ewan McGregor), William Bloom (Billy Crudup) still doesn't know if all of his father's fantastic stories are true and also he doesn't know who is really his father. The film show those fantastic and incredible stories that will turn Edward in an immortal man that everybody will remember through his own stories.
The script of this beautiful and incredible film was based upon the 1998 novel "Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions", written by Daniel Wallace. It was directed by one of my favourite directors ever, Tim Burton in the time when he lost his own father so this film can be his most personal work. I really love the story, about a reconciliation between father & son, both storytellers but what is the difference is that Edward tell his own life as a fantastic tale with many excellent characters. I love the fact that Edward tell his stories too many times that nobody can imagine his life in other way, a more realistic way and i think that's why Will is so confused about his father. And i love too all the stories of Edward with all of his exaggerations. There are all great but my favourite is the one when he told how he meet Sandra (Jessica Lange/Alison Lohman), is a really great love tale.And all with those great and memorable characters including a giant (Matthew McGrory), a witch (Helena Bonham Carter) and some others. But my favourite is the poet Norther Winslow who is living in a "perfect" town called Spectre and is writing his new poem for 12 years and this lines are all he have: "The grass so green. Skies so blue. Spectre is really great!", played in an excellent and funny way by the great Steve Buscemi who is one of my favourite actors.
What else i can say about this perfect film that is maybe my favourite of Tim Burton along with "Ed Wood",well just that i have my own story with this film. I remember pretty well that about 5 years ago i found Tim Burton thanks to my cousin. I spend the Christmas vacations of that year 2003 watching most of Burton stuff and he was my first favourite director that change my life in the way that after watching his films i really start to love cinema and start to investigate about directors, actors, actresses and all those things that you do when you have a really interest in something. After that i knew about this film that it was going to be released in Mexico in February of 2004. It was the very first time i enter in a cinema knowing about who direct this film and all those little details that as a cinema lover you like to know.
Conclusion: "Big Fish" is one of my personal favourite films ever and every time i remember about that day ,when i was very young, in which i watch the film i just feel really happy and with desires of watch it again. And i'm not exaggerating. 10 out of 10, the perfect film for my comment #100.