Big Fish adventures through Spectre to find truth and joy.

Rating: 10/10 (3 September 2007)

The town of Spectre is located deep in the dark woods, off the road most people travel, at the end of the pathless path. Beyond the yearning and the fear is the place of your dreams. Its peopled with your fantasy. It is alive with joyous and fearful beings you know only in deep sleep, or perhaps the enchantment of television or movies or books or your own imaginings of heaven or hell or what might be.
What might be... is the town of Spectre.
You may not have been there, but Tim Burton will take you there in this story about the Bloom family. The son, disgusted by the fantastic tales told him by his father rejects all his father told as lies. Big Fish is about truth in tall tales. There is truth in tall tales that will shake you to your emotional core. Someday your child, your heir, will happen upon a Deed, the undisputed Title that once you tried to own the town of Spectre, or perhaps just a home for the mistress of Spectre. Your cabinets will be filled with mementos of Spectre: the ticket stubs to movies or sport events; the books on a shelf are evidence of lands you visited. The town of Spectre lives in the tissue of your brain. Spectre (apparition)is accessed from printed page, coiled VHS tape, silver DVD disk, or close your eyes and be still.
What are your stories of heaven, history, politics, religion or just love? How can you entice your child to you simply enjoy a field of daffodils --for just this one day-- with the people we love? and do the same tomorrow?
But how do you share your adventure to joy with a child who cannot, will not, chooses not to live in your world? Can you patiently tell your tales of adventure to your children--those persons who come through you--? Alas, they have faith in only their own dreams. Perhaps they will only seek to know your dream's truth for themselves when you die. Will they find a tale to entertain and inspire your grandchildren to their adventure?
Take this fantastic adventure rich with images, humor and ideas that I am eager to visit many more times.