Big Fish - 6

This is a great film about fish, what would it be like to be a fish? What if you were that important and mysterious fish that people talk about? What if you had been caught, and hung on a wall? How would that make you feel? Actually this movie doesn't deal with any of these questions, but you just thought about the making of a story, is it a true story, fiction, or just "a perspective?"

Really this film is about stories, hence the title referencing the common exaggerated fish stories. It is ultimately a story about stories, and what people think and believe about truth. Not only are some of the scenes in this movie colorful and outrageously unbelievable, they are plainly and blatantly believable. That is the paradox. Stories are mysterious, they are both inside of the human mind and floating and pin-balling around in the bigger reality of our lived experience, our storied living. This film also explains how fear is one of the most experienced emotions that humans feel. It has to do with the doubt about the stories that we have lived that others have lived and the connections that are both hidden and revealed. How is that we enter into a story that gives meaning to our lives?