Unlike Li Yi's previous movie "Big Fish", it can be said that it is quite polarizing for the audience.
Some people like this movie very much, but some people think it is just mediocre.
Of course, most people still like it. According to film critics, if you understand it, you will definitely like this movie.
John, the old film critic, couldn't put it down even more.
"When you watch "Big Fish" at first, you will feel uncomfortable and don't understand what kind of story the movie is going to tell. But as long as you watch it and understand it, no one will not love this movie.
The movie starts with two people telling a story about a big strange fish.
One was spoken by his father to Will when he was a child, and the other was spoken by his father at his son's wedding.
The content of the story is roughly as follows: Legend has it that there is a big fish in the river that is the incarnation of the wronged thief. The father has always wanted to catch the big fish in the river, until the day his son was born, he finally caught the big fish with his wedding ring.
Fish. The father took out his wedding ring from the fish's belly, but finally released the fish. The father said: "I have the same fate as it, and I have the same life as it." This sentence is a reflection of his life.
The hint also echoes the ending of the movie. But Will showed a kind of disgust towards his father's story. At this time, he didn't understand his father's attitude and was helpless.
My father told his experiences in his youth in several paragraphs, which were full of fairy tales. There were giants, witches, a mysterious town isolated from the world, a circus, a werewolf leader, a vaguely beautiful lover, and
The conjoined girl...and the big strange fish in the river. The witch told her father that no one could catch it. This big strange fish has no real form, and people see it differently.
As a child, Will listened to the stories told by his father and felt that his father was omnipotent. He was full of admiration for his father and full of yearning for stories. When he grew up, when Will stepped out of the ivory tower that protected him, when he passed the age of believing in fairy tales,
Facing the pale society, he only felt ridiculous when he heard his father's story, and then he began to question his father.
Is this actually magical? No, actually not at all. This is just a movie, using light and shadow, to present the stories we heard from our father when we were children.
Unfortunately, how many people in this era are willing to believe in fairy tales?
However, if the father is just telling stories to his son, then he is not worthy of so many people's praise. In the father's stories, we can more or less find our own shadow, and we can also understand some of the truths hidden behind the lines.
This kind of design also reflects the father's painstaking efforts. He hopes that his son can learn something from his own experience. This may be somewhat similar to fathers in the world, who always use their own old experiences to tell stories over and over again.
Listen to your children.
When my father suffered from gigantism, which "grew up overnight", he said: "Goldfish will never get bigger if they stay in a small fish tank. If there is more space, they will grow several times." This shows that everyone has potential.
It's unlimited, as long as they are given enough room for development.
When my father was about to leave the fairyland-like town, the mayor said: "This town is everyone's dream." But my father resolutely chose to leave because he said: "This town is everyone's dream. I
If I settle here, I will feel honored. But in fact, I have never prepared to settle down anywhere." No matter how beautiful and comfortable this place is, it cannot make me stay. I still have a long way to go, and I cannot dwell on it.
.My lofty ambition supports me to hit the road again.
On the night when he discovered that the circus ringmaster was a werewolf, his father understood: "Most of the things you think are the most evil and bad are just loneliness and lack of harmonious personality."
When my father was pursuing his mother, he confessed his love to his mother while standing in the middle of a blockbuster of narcissus. The mother said: "You don't even know me yet." The father said: "I have a lifetime to know you." This is the famous scene of the movie, and it is also
An extremely touching picture.
It is worth mentioning that in my father’s story, my mother’s favorite flower is daffodils, and daffodils symbolize nobility and purity, just like the mother in my father’s story, an elegant and beautiful noble lady.
In fact, it is not difficult for us to find that father and mother are loving. In this society with an extremely high divorce rate, they have truly managed to grow old together as always.
Before his father died, Will found a person in his father's story, Jenny from Ghost Town.
Jenny told Will that her father really came to Ghost Town. Once he came early, and once he came too late. The time he came early, his father finally left for his ambition. The time he came late, his father finally came.
He chose to leave for the sake of his family, but he also saved Ghost Town. In Jenny's words, his father was a hero. He was kind and sociable, and everyone liked him. And Will also discovered that Jenny had two identities in her father's story.
, one is the little girl in the ghost town and the other is the witch with glass eyes who told her father: No one can catch the big fish in the river.
In fact, there is a detail. When we look at the people and things in my father's story, in my father's story, everyone else is fictional, and only Will and his mother are real.
Only then did Will understand his father's love for him. His father's story was not entirely fictitious. There were some parts that were true and some that were false. But who cares if it seems true or false?
It was not until the end that the son knew the facts of his birth: when his son was born, his father was out of town and could not come back. Even if his father was at home, according to the laws of this continent, he could not enter the delivery room. In short, at the moment his son was born,
The father is not with his son.
But the father’s story is: On the day my son was born, in order to prepare a gift, I caught the impossible big fish in the river. The bait was neither a bug nor an earthworm, but my wedding ring. Because the only thing that could
What attracted the big fish was the sparkling gold. The big fish took the bait and swallowed the wedding ring. But I put the big fish back into the water and he returned the wedding ring to me. When my son was born
That day, I got a wedding ring as a gift from my son.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click the next page to continue reading the exciting content! If it were me, I would choose to believe my father’s story. This is a gentle story. This story makes me believe that my father loves me, and this
The story makes up for the father's regrets.
Before his death, his father asked his son how he died. At this time, the movie reached its climax. The son continued the fairy tale he had told his whole life for his father. He said: I woke up that morning and saw you speaking to me radiantly.
:Hurry, let’s escape from the hospital! I took you to escape from the hospital, and met my mother on the road. She helped us stop the doctor. I took you to the river in your red car, and the river was full of you.
The people in the story are not sad at all and look at us with smiles. My mother is waiting in the middle of the river. You take out the ring you took from the big fish's mouth and give it to her. I slowly put you into the river.
Here, you turned into that big fish, swimming away in the morning light...
Only then did the son begin to understand and tolerate his father. When Will was about to become a father and when his father was about to die, Will finally understood his father. Will's story also fulfilled the suspense left at the beginning of the movie.
At my father's funeral, the prototypes of the people in my father's story all came. They all really existed, but the giants were not that tall, the conjoined girls were just twins, and the leader was not a werewolf. They just had their own characteristics magnified by their father.
Already.
At the end of the movie, Will's son is telling his grandfather's story to his friends. Then there is Will's monologue: Have you heard some jokes so many times that you have forgotten why they are funny? Then you hear them again.
It, suddenly, seems new, and you will remember why you liked it in the first place. A person keeps telling his own story, making himself the story itself. The story continues to circulate after his death,
In that way, he also becomes immortal.
Just as Will told his story to his son after his father died, and it has been passed down forever, so his father has lived in the story forever.
And my father is like the big fish in the story. No one can catch him, and he keeps swimming in the river for a long time.
My father is a person who beautifies life into a fairy tale. He smooths the edges of reality for his son and tells his son fairy tale-like life experiences one after another. Until the end of the movie, I still don’t know which stories in my father’s life are weaving stories.
Which ones are real? But what seems like illusion and reality is exactly my father’s life. My father is a man who spends his whole life becoming a fairy tale.
The relationship between father and son also shows most of the relationship between father and son. The son was disgusted and alienated from his father at first, but it was not until he became a father that he began to understand and tolerate his father.
Some people say that "Big Fish" is a lonely movie, but in my opinion, it is an extremely gentle movie. Everyone in the movie is kind and gentle. The father weaves fairy tales for his son, and the son weaves fairy tales for him.
The father fulfilled his fairy tale, the beautiful and gentle mother, the daughter-in-law who patiently listened to her father-in-law telling stories, and those who bid farewell to their father with smiles...
In this world, only outside of the people you love, you need to distinguish between the so-called true and false. There are various opinions about things in life. The so-called truth may be the most boring and unacceptable. And in life
People who are painted in the colors of the rainbow deserve respect and trust because of their love.”
"Big Fish" is not actually a science fiction movie in the traditional sense, although it has the word science fiction in its title.
However, as more and more people interpret the movie and as it is discussed more and more on the Internet, its reputation gradually begins to rise, which is much better than the previous polarized reputation.
There are even many people who went to watch it a second time because they didn’t quite understand it after watching it for the first time.
At the same time, "Big Fish", a novel and relatively innovative movie, is also deeply loved by netizens.
Many online film critics took the initiative to recommend this film.
“‘Big Fish’ is definitely the most sincere film among the films I have watched this year, and it is also the most surprising film.
The scenes at the beginning of the film changed rapidly, and the only thing that remained unchanged was that his father kept telling his story. Finally, at Will's wedding, he could no longer stand the long and ridiculous story about the big fish, and slammed the door and left, thinking that
Father always regarded himself as the protagonist. Finally, the hospital doctor told Will the truth: "Edward was out doing business on the day he was born, and did not catch up with his birth, let alone go fishing for the so-called big fish. But he
But I feel deep pain and regret for this.”
You see, a father made up a magical story to make up for his inner self-blame, and gave the child's birth a mysterious color. The most rare thing is that he persisted in telling this story for a lifetime, and stubbornly persisted in the face of his son's doubts.
To maintain the image of your heroic father, everything is because he loves you. The doctor said that he prefers this version of catching big fish, and I in front of the screen also wanted to say: "Me too."
At the last moment of his life, Edward wanted his son to tell him how he died. His son had not heard what his father saw in the witch's glass eye. What should he do?
It can be seen that the son was at a loss at first and later told him that he had escaped from the hospital with his father. The father's red car happened to be parked in front of the hospital. The father poured mineral water on himself and the giant helped them clear the blocked road. Everyone was a circus troupe.
The Chinese two-headed witch Jenny Nord all stood by the river and cheered??
All of this runs through all of the father's stories and the son tells them in one coherent and logical manner. Why is it so organized? It makes me understand that towards the end of the story, my son has subconsciously accepted all of his father's bizarre stories. In the stories he made up, his father even transformed into a human being.
That legendary big fish. Just like what is said at the end of the film, "A person keeps telling his own story, making himself the story itself." Even the listeners are not consciously involved in these stories.
The last scene of the film is Will's son telling his friends in the swimming pool the story that his father saw a giant. In an instant, the past reappeared, and it was so similar.
"Are there some jokes you've heard so many times that you've forgotten why it was funny? Then you hear it again and suddenly it's like a brand new joke and you remember why you liked it in the first place."
As a father, Will understands the feeling of a father who wants to be a hero to his children, and he accepts his father's story, probably because his initial love came from his deep love for his father when he was a child, and now his love is more...
A kind of consideration and understanding, no matter what misunderstandings and twists and turns, Will completely fell in love with these stories.
What surprised me the most was my father’s funeral. It turned out that there really was a giant and a circus leader. Of course, the giant might not be that huge, and the circus leader was not a werewolf. There really were twin girls, but their bodies were not that big.
Together, there really is a poet Nord, of course we don't know if he really only wrote three lines of poetry, there really is a witch, but the witch's eyes are not glass beads, but Jenny...
.
At this point, it no longer matters whether the stories my father tells are true or not. After all, my father has been telling stories his whole life, and the audience he wants most already understands him.
As an audience, I love this father who loves his son deeply. I love this son who finally accepted his father."
