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Movies are about story-telling. Big Fish is a story about story-telling. It is a mix of genres: fairy tale, comedy, parody, and adventure. The narrative is built upon the adventurous life of Edward Bloom (Albert Finney) but expounded through the staging and voice-over of young Edward Bloom (Ewan McGregor).

The entirety of the film is about gap closing between the father and the son. Tim Burton emphasizes the theme by using a visual reversal and parallelism to depict the filial relation between Bloom and his son, Will (Billy Crudup), at an early sequence of the film. Under discontinuous editing, the plot then dis-chronologically shuttles between different spatial and temporal dimensions in capturing Blooms adventure. Burton carefully manipulates the mise-en-scene by adopting colourful images, synchronizing colour-tones with the mood of the plot, using unconventional props and setting and exhibiting exaggerated staging and costume (giant, conjoined-twin singers, witch) to intensify the genre features of fairy tales and parodies.

On the whole, Big Fish carries a preferred reading on the admiration of life, filial relations and amity. It is this positive attitude embodied in the light-hearted thematic loading that renders the film more readability and vitality than Burton's preceding films, Batman and Sleeping Hollow, though they are of different genres. Big Fish is a good film overlooked by the market.

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