The Art of Storytelling

Rating: 9/10 (24 January 2012)

It is easy to forget that most people originally start liking films for their stories. When you are little, you are not concerned with 'who directed what?' and 'who is in what?', as you are with 'what is it about?'. This is a movie filled with magic. It is a simple story about a man desperately trying to get the truth about his dying father, whose tall tales of his life seem far too interesting and surreal to have happened. To say anymore about the plot would ruin it. There is no movie quite like this - which captures the essence of childhood magic and which exhibits the best traits of pure storytelling, and contrasts it brilliantly with the bleakness of how most lives are actually lived on this planet.
Surrealism has never been more real.