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Today I'll show you a Drama Fantasy film: "Big Fish"
Spoiler ahead, watch out and take care
The movie begins with a father telling the story about how he caught a catfish,
that is said to have been living for thousands of years, using his wedding ring as bait,
which also happens to be during the time his son was born
Apparently, the father has been telling so many stories since his son was young;
from his childhood, to when his son brought his prom date, up to the day his son is to be wed
At the son's wedding party in 2000,
his father continues to tell his stories to the people attending the ceremony
The son confronts his father not long after
They get into an argument; and the son says some hurtful things to his father;
having to listen to these stories all his life, he believes them to be lies
Because of that, they have stopped talking to each other since then
Three years later, the father is diagnosed with cancer
So the son and his pregnant French wife return to his hometown to spend time with the father
During the plane ride, the son recalls a story of his father's childhood encounter with a witch,
who shows him his death in her glass eye
Right then comes A flashback of the father when he was still young;
the father being the storyteller himself, walks to a haunted house with a group of other kids
They discuss the witch, whose glass eye reveals someone's death
The storyteller doesn't believe this,
so one of his friends, a big brother, dares him to retrieve the eye
The storyteller enters the front yard, as the other kids watch him
Two of them flee out of fear,
while the big brother and his little brother stay and witness his bravery
As the storyteller is about to knock, the witch opens the door
He introduces himself like the gentleman that he is,
and tells the witch about the other kids wanting to see her glass eye
The storyteller brings the witch to the front gate,
and lets the brothers see how they're going to die
When he escorts the witch back into the house, he asks to see how he will die
The witch doesn't hesitate, and reveals to him the prophecy
When he is done, the witch walks back inside the house;
and the door closes itself, and the flashback ends
In the present, the son visits his parents' home,
and tries to ask about the real events of his father's stories
The father, in spite of his illness, is confident that he doesn't die the way he is now
After their talk, the son leaves his father's room, and sees his old bedroom
The son gets another flashback of him getting sick with chickenpox
The father claims to have once been bedridden for three years, due to his rapid growth spurts
It seems that his muscles and bones couldn't keep up with his body's ambition
Another flashback happens
The storyteller as a kid, stays in bed, with the encyclopedia as his only source of information
He reads about the common goldfish, revealing that if it stays inside a small tank,
it will not grow big; so the bigger the tank, the larger the goldfish can get
He comes to the realization that the reason for his growth is that he is intended for bigger things
As soon as his bones have settled in their adult configuration,
he sets upon his plan to make a bigger place for himself
He then becomes a locally famous sportsman,
before being driven by his ambition to leave his hometown
Until one day, a stranger arrives, who happens to be a giant
This giant has been terrorizing the town, by eating livestock from the surrounding farms
The storyteller volunteers to try, and reason out with the misunderstood giant
So He goes to his cave, where he tries to talk to him
The giant tells him that he's just too big that he gets hungry all the time
The storyteller convinces him that the town is just too small for the giant
They set out into the world together
Before they leave, the town sets a parade for them
He is given the key to the city
As they travel, he and the giant find a fork in the road, and decide to travel down separate paths
The storyteller follows a path through a swamp
He comes across an area covered in spider webs
After he passes through the webbed area, covered in spider bites, he discovers a secret town
The town has many cheerful locals there
The mayor claims that he is their expected visitor, but he seems to have arrived a little too early
Later, He meets the locals, and befriends a famous poet from his hometown
While he, the poet, and the mayor have a conversation, the mayor's daughter steals his shoes,
and throws them on a wire where the rest of the town folks' shoes are hanging
Afterward, he agrees to spend the rest of the afternoon there;
until eventually, he informs everyone that he needs to leave
they are shocked by his decision, but He makes a promise to the mayor's lovely daughter,
that he will eventually return to that secret town
The storyteller walks back to the swamp barefoot
Soon after, he and the giant reunite and visit the circus
As the ringmaster introduces another big man to the crowd of spectators,
the storyteller introduces the giant to them
Then he spots a beautiful young woman leaving, and everything around the storyteller suddenly stops
Apparently, The storyteller is love-struck at that time
Soon after, the giant gets a job in the circus
Meanwhile, the storyteller asks to work in the circus as well;
and in return, the ringmaster reveals to the storyteller one detail
about the beautiful young woman at the end of every month
Three years later, the storyteller discovers that the ringmaster is secretly a werewolf,
and is attacked by him accidentally;
but he avoids getting the ringmaster shot with a silver bullet by playing fetch,
until he turns back into a human in the morning
The ringmaster, upon returning to normal, reveals the woman's name,
who happens to be his future wife, and that she attends a specific university
Afterward, the storyteller says goodbye to his circus friends,
and rides three trains to make his way to that university
He shows up to the future wife's sorority, and reveals his feelings for her
He tells her about the things he went through to finally meet her
But she tells him that she's engaged to be married to his childhood friend,
exactly the shitty big brother
Despite the sad news, he is still convinced that he will marry her
He stalks his future wife for many days, even going so far as to plant thousands of daffodils,
her favorite flowers, outside of her sorority house bedroom
Then the big brother visits the sorority,
and brutally beats up the storyteller like a piece of shit,
which however, prompts the future wife to break off their engagement and marry the storyteller
Not long after, the big brother dies of a heart attack as the witch had prophesied
The storyteller is soon hospitalized,
and receives mail about being drafted into the army, and is being sent to fight in the war
Since just meeting the future wife, he knows he cannot survive being away from her that long
So he takes every hazardous assignment he can find,
hoping he gets his time down to less than a year, instead of three years
He is once offered a secret mission to steal the plans for the power plant;
he jumps at the chance to serve his country
So on the day of his mission, he parachutes into the middle of a North Korean military show,
steals important documents, and hides in the tent of the Siamese twins, who are part of the show
Over the next hour, he describes his love for his future wife to the Siamese twins,
and the ordeal that has brought him before meeting them
He convinces the Siamese twins to help him go home, in exchange for making them celebrities
And so, the Siamese twins and the storyteller begin their arduous journey, halfway around the world
Unfortunately, there is no way to send a message back to America;
so the army believes the storyteller is dead
They bring the news to the future wife, making her fall into despair
But four months later, the storyteller makes his way home to her
The flashback ends; in the present, the son confronts his father again,
and tells him that his stories are all lies
He uses the iceberg as an example, that only a few percent of the iceberg is seen,
but the bottom part of it isn't seen, much like his father's stories
Soon after their argument, the son is in the shed by the pool,
and spots an old automated hand, and gets another flashback of his father's stories
In the flashback, upon the storyteller returning home,
he becomes a travelling salesman for a company, that sells automated hands
He uses the money, and sets it aside for his dream home: a house with a white picket fence
A few years later, he adds new products and cities,
until his territory stretched from the coast of nearby states
One day, he drives to a local bank, and crosses paths with the poet
He unwittingly helps the poet rob a failing bank with no money,
that has been bankrupted by speculators in real estate
Afterward, they drive to a getaway
As they drive, the storyteller later inspires the poet to work on Wall Street
Eventually, the poet becomes a wealthy broker, and repays the storyteller with ten thousand dollars
Despite the storyteller protesting, the poet says it's his fee as the poet's career advisor
So the storyteller uses it to obtain his dream house
In the present time, while still doubting, the son investigates the truth behind his father's tales
He sees a deed with the name of the mayor's daughter, and the address to the secret town
So the son drives all the way to the location,
where he meets the now older version of the mayor's daughter
The son then confronts the mayor's daughter,
and asks her if she is having an affair with his shitty father
It seems that this is his way,
of trying to reconcile with his feelings of what his father really is
So the mayor's daughter tells him the story of how his father helped the secret town
Another flashback happens with the storyteller walking to the secret town
He finds it to be in ruins
So he rescues it from bankruptcy by buying it in an auction,
and rebuilding it with the help of his friends he has met along the way
Later on, he visits the swampy area,
and meets the mayor's daughter living in that house he wishes to buy;
but will still give the house back to the mayor's daughter afterward
She however, denies the offer
But the storyteller is persistent, and still helps rebuild and refurbish the house
The mayor's daughter reveals to the son that although she loved the storyteller,
he remains faithful to his wife and declines her kiss
She later signs the deed to the house;
and this is apparently the last thing on the storyteller's list, of helping rescue the secret town
In the present, the son later returns home, but learns that his father has had a stroke
So he stays with him at the hospital
The family doctor finally tells the real story of how the son was really born
The family doctor says that he prefers the exciting story of his birth,
rather than the real but boring details of it
Soon after, the storyteller wakes up but, unable to speak much
he explains the entire setting of his real death, based on what he saw in the witch's eye
To help his father, the son tries to calm him,
by narrating what he always guessed his father saw in the glass eye
The son starts telling his father of their imagined daring escape
from the hospital to the nearby river,
where everyone from the storyteller's past, is glad to be there to see him off
The son carries his father through the joyful crowd into the river,
where his father transforms into the giant catfish, and swims away
Through telling this story, the son learns to forgive him
Eventually, his father dies, satisfied with his living a fantastic life out of the daily ordinaries
At the funeral, the son and his French wife are surprised,
when all the people from the father's stories come to the service
Though each one of them is slightly less fantastical than how his father originally described
Many people seem to have attended his funeral
Not long after, the son asks for their accounts on his father's stories,
where they confirm the credibility, but also fantasize his acts in return
The movie ends years later, when the son passes on his father's stories to his own child
The son believes that by telling his father's stories so many times
that his father becomes the stories
The stories live on after his father
And in that way, he comes immortal, just like the tale of the Big Fish
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