a really nice movie...

Rating: 8/10 (15 July 2012)

Well, what do you do when you are tired and frustrated- it's midnight, dark and you are suffering from the bouts of Insomania- you watch the Big Fish by Tom Burton- well it ain't no Sherlock Holmes but Big Fish is a tale of a tale-yarner: a story teller. Well, in the back waters, a man wished to catch the biggest fish in the river- how he finally did catch it on the day his son was born and let it go after the fish had grasped his wedding ring. This story teller is a man who had sucked everyone with his story telling charms. The only guy unimpressed by his tall tales is his son- who feels that he had never been able to hear the true story of his father. He thinks his father is a megalomaniac and the world revolves around him......... So this story is basically a search- where his son finally discovers the true threads of the story- when his father is nearly dying. To his amazement, fact and fiction mingles and he could not believe his eyes when all the characters- giants, two headed Vietnam sisters, The Poet who went to the Wall Street, the Witch of his Father's stories pop out right at his funeral. Ultimately his son realizes- the wild imaginations that his father engulfed in were far vibrant and romantic than the real life monotony. He becomes a believer.
And the story-teller becomes the story.