Big Fish is a 2003 American fantasy
adventure film based on the 1998 novel of the same name by Daniel Wallace. The
film was directed by Tim Burton and stars Albert Finney, Ewan McGregor, Billy
Crudup, Jessica Lange and Marion Cotillard. Other roles are performed by Helena
Bonham Carter, Matthew McGrory, Danny DeVito, Deep Roy and Miley Cyrus among
others.
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Finney plays Edward Bloom, a former
traveling salesman from the Southern United States with a gift for
storytelling, now confined to his deathbed. Bloom's estranged son, a journalist
played by Crudup, attempts to mend their relationship as his dying father
relates tall tales of his eventful life as a young adult, played by Ewan
McGregor.
The film has a
very important writer of this document, and that beyond the fantasies exposed
in the film, tells the importance of our parents in the construction of our
identity, the importance throughout our development.
That's why more
than special effects or some important aspect within it that do identify with
the film, notably stressed the value of always going to grow and see life in a
more friendly than installing the protagonist Edward Bloom, the usual help
others regardless of time or in the condition you are.
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importance, the value of each film is not measured by how many Oscars he
received, much less by the revenue that each film receives. The importance lies
in how a film is able to reach the last cell of a person.