12.5.06
Big Fish
Big Fish – 2003
This classic Tim Burton material forms into an exceedingly good film. It's about Edward Bloom, a dying father who embellishes his life story through myth and legend. His son (Billy Crudup) is annoyed because he believes he does not truly know his father, who cannot speak the straight truth, and as death approaches the son must seek some kind of answer to his father's obsessive story-telling behaviour. The flashbacks are colourful stories with fantastic characters and touching moments. The young Bloom is played by Ewan McGregor; the man who will play anyone, act almost anything. Brit Albert Finney creates a moving older Bloom, and you can see how he believes the stories he tells to be fact.
Steve Buscemi is outstanding as Norther Winslow, the poet. One of my fave ladies: Helena Bonham Carter features too as two different characters. The ending is quite wonderful. 7/10
Sadly the guy who played Karl the Giant died young of natural causes in late 2005. He was 7' 6" tall.
