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Chapter 1524 We always believe in the fairy tale and miracle of life

Edward, the Edward who loved telling stories, the Edward who saw how he left through the glass eyes, is finally gone!

Will closed the door. The walk to the phone booth was so long that it seemed to take a lifetime.

Will found a twenty-five-cent coin and started dialing, his eyes blurred by tears.

The call was connected.

Will's voice was hoarse: "Hey!"

That was all he could say before the flood of emotion broke.

He leaned close to the microphone, trying to hide his emotions.

The music started playing, Will was waiting at the reception desk, and Sandra and Josephine stepped out of the elevator.

In the guest room, Josephine opened the curtains to let in the sunlight. She took the covers off the bed.

Sandra picked out one of Edward's ties for Will to wear at the funeral. Will is looking for a pair of pants in his closet to match a borrowed shirt, but unexpectedly finds a ribbon! The "key to the city" hangs above it. Will smiled, unable to believe that this key actually existed.

The funeral was not as sad as people imagined, but they all came, Edward's friends.

The driver got out of the car. He was Carl. He was 55 years old. Although he was not twelve feet tall, he was at least six feet eight. Will didn't expect there to be anyone so tall.

After the funeral, people who knew each other talked together. Through everyone's laughter and gestures, the audience can guess that they must be telling a story, telling Edward's story.

Will was watching them too.

Will smiled as his son continued to tell the story. Sandra held Will's hand and listened to the story.

Will joined in the conversation and smiled.

The scene cuts again to the Bloom family's backyard. Will is sitting on the porch with Sandra and Josephine, watching his son play with two little neighbor boys.

A tombstone gradually takes up the entire screen.

There was no sensation, no excessive sadness, everything seemed natural, as if this was what Edward wanted.

Next to the grave are familiar faces, including Beaman, Norther Winslow, the mayor and Zacky Price. Years go by and everyone grows old.

"He said he fought a fifteen-foot giant," Will's son said.

Will's son was proud: "Look, let me tell you. Even though he is a giant, my grandpa wants to fight with him, because grandpa is not afraid of anything, because he has seen what he is in the old woman's glass eyes." dead"

Cemetery, at Edward's funeral.

Josephine hugged Dr. Bennett and shook hands with his wife. There were more than two hundred people attending the funeral, more than expected.

An Olds stopped, and the passengers getting out were almost invisible, their faces obscured by the doors. When he closed the car door, he saw that this person was Amos Calloway, 70 years old, the circus owner who appeared in Edward's story and Jenny's story. Will didn't recognize him. , or it was the first time I saw him.

The child shook his head: "Impossible."

The funeral was about to begin, and Will led his mother to a seat near the tomb.

Will's son turned to Will and asked: "Dad, is that right?"

Will smiled: "Almost."

Will helped his mother get out of the black car. Sandra was calm and composed, not as vulnerable as expected.

"Have you ever heard a joke and forgotten how funny it was because you've told it so many times? But one day, when you hear it again, it suddenly feels refreshing. You remember why it was so funny in the first place. Love it so much.”

Will's voiceover sounded: "I guess that was my father's last joke. A man tells too many stories, and eventually he himself becomes a story. After his death, the story continues to spread."

The last scene of the movie echoes the beginning of the movie.

A fat catfish swims happily towards the camera.

Will's voice replaced Edward's: "This is how he will be immortal!"

The big fish swam past us, creating a splash.

The movie is over.

However, everyone in the internal screening room was very quiet. No one spoke or applauded.

They were all still immersed in the movie.

This story was so special, so special, that they didn’t know how to evaluate it for a while.

"Congratulations, Lee, I believe this movie is another miracle!"

"Congratulations, a very good film!"

"A very special, very special movie!" "I haven't seen such an interesting movie in a long time!"

Everyone congratulated Li Yi one after another. They are all professionals in the industry, and they are all professionals who have cooperated with Dean Pictures. They can still tell whether "Big Fish" is good or not.

"Thank you!"

Soon, promotional materials for the upcoming film "Big Fish" by Li, the miracle director from China, who won the Oscar for Best New Director, began to be released.

What followed was a special screening by the media and film critics.

"Big Fish" is a rather special movie. Why is it special?

Because this movie can be said to be a subversive of the traditional movie about "father", the movie is also a movie with a bit of magic.

It can be said that before this, there were very few movies of this kind, so it was very fresh for many people.

After the screening started, "Big Fish" unsurprisingly received high reviews.

"In this world, only outside of the people you love, you need to distinguish between the so-called truth and falsehood. There are various opinions about things in life. The so-called truth may be the most boring and unacceptable. And in People whose lives are painted with the colors of the rainbow deserve respect and trust because of their love.”

"My father and mother hugged each other quietly in the bathtub. After my father left, many friends saw him off. These were the two scenes that moved me the most. At this moment, I also know what is most important to me in life. "

"The father who lived an ordinary life by making up stories was still worried about the river he saw in the witch's glass eyeball before he died. His son fulfilled this "lie" for him and gave his father a gratifying gift. The answer. After his father's death, he also became a legend in his story. A story with great vitality and a wild plot, but in the end it comes down to resistance to ordinary life."

"A warm gothic fairy tale for adults. A big fish, a ring, a giant, a mermaid, conjoined sisters, a werewolf circus director, a poet who wrote three lines in 12 years, a witch who sees death with her glass eyes, hanging on the clothesline Shoes, a chaotic war, a town that cannot be returned to. The moving ritual of farewell with a smile is like the ending of an underground carnival on an isolated island. Apply a layer of rainbow frosting to the boring life and cold reality, and use a soft light Filter.”

"You don't have to worry if you know how you're going to die. Because you know nothing else in the world can kill you!"

"A fantasy life that is both true and false, a tender confession between father and son."

"There is no deliberate sensationalism, just an ordinary father living an extraordinary story!"

"A lot of people said they didn't understand this film, a lot of people said it was about a father-son relationship, a lot of people said they made up fairy tales because things are hard in the world, but I think the director is reminding everyone that none of this is fiction, it's all real, and everyone's Experience is a painting. Some people recall it with a pencil-like mind, while some people recall it with a watercolor-like mind. For example, the red coat worn at the husband's funeral. The reality of each of us is a fairy tale. .”

"When we were young, we naively believed the fairy tales we read to be true. But why do we no longer want to believe in the beauty of the world when we grow up?"

"The ending is the finishing touch! The scene where all the characters gathered by the river is both real and illusory, but equally touching. In fact, he just processed the people he met in his life. Who doesn't want his life to be... How about a lively adventure?"

"I don't think I want to use the word touching anymore, because "Big Fish" really goes beyond the level of touching. After watching this film, I feel that each of us is actually a person with a story, even if the story It's as plain as water, but it contains all kinds of things that I can't stop. This movie made me love life and the people around me more."

"The plot is wild and unconstrained, the narrative is extremely smooth, and the non-linear structure is fascinating like the story of One Thousand and One Nights. If you don't exhaust your imagination to add color to your memories, how can you survive the anxiety of leaving home and the horror of war? and economic crisis depression.

The fear of death stopped his story, and was dispelled by the carnival ending composed by his son: this was not only the reconciliation that father and son had been waiting for half their lives, but also the elixir that comforted him in his peaceful death. The ending made me burst into tears for a long time - before I die, I hope my lover will tell me a fantastic story like a fairy tale.

The story condenses every unique experience in my ordinary life and mentions every interesting person. Everyone gathered together in the woods by the river, laughing and making fun, and spent the last journey with me. Romantic to death, the best destination for a person who loves romance. I believe there will always be an elder like this around us. They also love to tell the story of their adventures in the first half of their lives over and over again. If you listened carefully to every one of his stories, then congratulations, you are lucky, because no one can tell me these stories anymore. "

The famous film critic Larry wrote:

"There is no doubt that this is a film full of warmth and metaphors, lamenting the humbleness and greatness of life. While watching this film, countless images, characters, and complexes emerged from my mind, and gradually became associated with the film. The endings that are both real and illusory are blended together, and finally turn into a big fish, wandering away.

Father is originally a metaphor; everyone may be a father, everyone may be a son; everyone may have glory and dreams, everyone may experience fluttering wings and dormancy; everyone is greedy for small things. Warmth, everyone longs to be a hero; everyone must face the choice, everyone must face the starting point and the end point we must face.

Reality and illusion, lies and magnificence are just a question posed in the film. How should we face the vast and unknown life?

Knowing the end of death may make people more fearless. The road is long, why is it a road? I prefer to understand this metaphor as - we need to know clearly what we want. My father will not die in the hands of giants, my father cannot stay in the ghost town, my father must return from the battlefield, because that is not his ending. Only by moving towards a firmly believed and preset outcome can people be tenacious and invincible.

The last twenty minutes of the film are the highlight. In these twenty minutes, reality and fairy tales were finally tightly intertwined like two threads running towards each other. The fireworks have finally dissipated, and the music of sheng and xiao has stopped. The moving scene is spotless, like a brilliant galaxy that has been knocked over on the sky, silent and burning.

The core of life is nothing more than this. We all once yearned to be the hero that attracted everyone's attention, to be the prince to our princess, to be the embodiment of justice, to triumph constantly among flowers and cheers. But perhaps we can only leave a faint trace in the world, an ordinary life, minimal help, and unspeakable debts.

Will the real and concrete sloppy world throw us into the humble river? So the doctor will ask the son, who is about to become a father, which version of your birth story you prefer.

Where there is shadow, there must be light. My father just used his body to block the mottled shadow in his heart, so that people could only see the brilliant fireworks.

It no longer matters whether my father actually saw his journey to death. Because we don’t need to discuss the truth and falsehood with love at all. The father finally died in the plot of his son, and left this world with a smile under the attention of the protagonists in all his stories.

This is not an ending, but a beginning. It is the opening of those dull rays of light, and the passing on of the wisdom of life.

The Witch said: You will never catch the biggest fish in the Alabama River.

So, we try, we pursue, we fall, and we get up. We climbed over mountains and ridges, and we narrowly escaped death. We pass by a woman's warmth and tears, and we pass by our own cowardice and incompetence. We gained nothing, but we were never left empty-handed. In the end we failed, but in the end we were still at ease.

Because we always believe in the fairy tale and miracle of life.

This is an immortal legend.

The brilliance of "Big Fish" lies in the use of an extremely accurate image to capture the characteristics of the spoken medium. Compared to the one-way pattern of roads and wheels, what can bring a sense of freedom and infinite directions better than fish and water? ? Flight and the sky may be comparable, but they are less fleeting and unobstructed. Water, mysterious and translucent water, reflects the elusiveness and changeability of this world. The question we have to face is, do you believe this story? But trust me, the answer is never either/or.

The miracle director from China shows us a different kind of father's love, using magical stories to interpret ordinary life. However, as everyone knows, in that ordinary life, there is always something extraordinary.

That is not a story, but an interpretation of magical reality. When we get old and look back on the past, we will find that how could everything in the past not be so magical and full of magic? "

(End of this chapter)