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Chapter 1525: Spend your life becoming a fairy tale

Unlike Li Yi's previous movie "Big Fish", it can be said that it is quite polarizing for the audience.

Some people liked this movie very much, but some people thought it was just mediocre.

Of course, most people still like it. According to film critics, if you understand it, you will definitely like this movie.

The old film critic John 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 begins 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 his wedding ring out of the fish's belly, but eventually 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 hint to the father's life and 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 the story of 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.

When Will was a child, he listened to the stories his father told and felt that his father was omnipotent. He was full of admiration for his father and full of longing for stories. When Will grew up, when he stepped out of the ivory tower that protected him, when he passed the age of believing in fairy tales, and faced the pale society, he only felt ridiculous when he listened to his father's stories, and then he questioned his father.

Is this actually magical? No, actually not at all. This is just a way of using movies, 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 was just telling stories to his son, he would not be worthy of so many praises. In our 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 their children stories over and over again.

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. is 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 I would be honored to settle here. But in fact, I have never prepared to settle down anywhere." No matter how beautiful and comfortable this place is, it can't make me stop. I still have a long way to go, and I can't dwell on it. . My lofty ambition supported me to hit the road again.

On the night he discovered that the circus ringmaster was a werewolf, my father understood: "Most of the things you think are most evil and bad are just loneliness and lack of harmonious personality."

When my father was pursuing his mother, he stood in the middle of a large daffodils and confessed his love to his mother. The mother said: "You don't even know me." 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 aristocratic 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 too early, and once he came too late. That time when he came early, his father finally left for his own ambitions. That time when he came late, his father finally chose to leave for the sake of his family, but he also saved Ghost Town. In Jenny's words, her father is a hero. He is kind and sociable, and everyone likes him. And Will also discovered that Jenny had two identities in his father's story, one was the little girl in Ghost Town, and the other was the witch with glass eyes who told his father that no one could 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 fictional. 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 about 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, the father was not with his son at the moment of his birth.

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 attracts big fish is glittering gold. The big fish took the bait and swallowed the wedding ring. But I put the big fish back into the water and he gave me back the wedding ring. I got a wedding ring as a gift from my son on the day he was born.

If it were me, I would choose to believe my father's story. It is a gentle story. This story makes me believe that my father loves me, and this story makes up for my 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 way. She helped us stop the doctor. I took you to the river in your red car. The riverside was full of people from your story. They were not sad and looked at us with smiles. Mom was 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, and 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 is about to become a father and when his father is about to die, Will finally understands his father. Will's story also completes 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 existed, but the giant was not that tall, the conjoined women were just twins, and the leader was not a werewolf. They just had their own characteristics that were amplified by their father.

At the end of the movie, Will's son is telling his grandfather's story to his friends. And then there’s Will’s monologue: Have you ever heard a joke so many times that you’ve forgotten why it was funny? Then you hear it again, and suddenly, as if in a new light, you remember why you loved it in the first place. A person keeps telling his own story, making himself the story itself. The story continued after his death, and in that way, he became immortal.

Just as Will told his story to his son after his father died, and it has been passed down like this, 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. It keeps swimming in the river for a long time.

The father is a person who beautifies life into a fairy tale. He smooths the corners of reality for his son and tells his son every fairy tale-like life experience. Until the end of the movie, I still didn’t know which parts of my father’s life were fabricated stories and which parts were real. But it seems like illusion and reality, but it is also the life of my father. My father is a man who spends his 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 fairy tales that the father weaves for his son, the son who completes his fairy tales for his father, the beautiful and gentle mother, the daughter-in-law who patiently listens to her father-in-law telling stories, and those who say goodbye to their father with a smile.

In this world, only outside of the people you love, you need to distinguish between true and false. There are various explanations for things in life. The so-called truth may be the most boring and unacceptable. And people who paint the outside of their lives with 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 more and more people discuss it on the Internet, its reputation gradually begins to rise, which is much better than the previous polarized reputation.

There are even many people who ran 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 movie I’ve seen this year, and it’s also the most surprising one.

The scene at the beginning of the film changes rapidly, and the only thing that remains unchanged is that the father is telling his story endlessly. Finally, at Will's wedding, he could no longer stand the long and ridiculous story about Big Fish, and slammed the door and left, thinking that his father always regarded him 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 catch the so-called big fish. But he felt deep pain for this. and regret.”

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 your heroic father image, everything is because he loves you. The doctor said that he preferred this version of catching big fish, and I in front of the screen also wanted to say: "Me too."

At the last moment of Edward's life, he wanted his son to tell him how he died. The son had not heard what his father saw in the witch's glass eye. what to 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 the stories of the father and the son tells them in one coherent and logical manner. Why it was so organized made me understand that towards the end of the story, my son had subconsciously accepted all of his father’s bizarre stories. Even in the story he made up, his father turned into the legendary big fish. Just like it says at the end of the film, "A person keeps telling his own story, making himself the story itself." Even the listeners are not consciously immersed 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 turns out that there really is a giant and a circus leader. Of course, the giant may not be that huge, and the circus leader is not a werewolf. There really are twin girls, but their bodies are not connected together. There really is a poet Nord, of course we don’t know if he really only wrote three lines of poetry. There really are witches, but the witch’s eyes are not Glass beads, but Jenny.

At this point, it no longer mattered whether the stories my father told were true or not. After all, my father had been telling stories his whole life, and the audience he wanted most already understood him.

As a viewer, I love this father who loves his son deeply. Love this son who finally accepted his father. "

(End of this chapter)