But it doesn't really matter in the long run. Big Fish is clear from the start that this will be a tall tale, and it's up to the audience to figure out the threads of truth within them. Forrest Gump is mostly straightforward, and while far-fetched events do happen, they are never so out of place that they don't feel they couldn't happen. But they are very different viewing experiences. There will probably always be connections made between them - they are two of the most life-affirming films ever made, especially because they don't stray from showing the absolute lowest points of life that you feel you will never escape. It finds the extraordinary in the ordinary and shows that is why life can be so beautiful.īoth of these films share a very similar premise, and even a very similar message and structure. A man becomes bigger than life just by simply making his life story more entertaining for the listener. At its heart, it is about legacy in the form of storytelling and family. The exaggeration of life, romanticization at times even, is why Big Fish can stand on its own. From werewolves and spooky trees that reach for you, to time literally stopping the first time Ed ( Ewan McGregor) sees the love of his life Sandra ( Alison Lohman). It doesn't stop to make something realistic, it doesn't wait for the audience to ask questions - it just keeps going.
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Will puts it best as the movie is ending, "It doesn't always make sense and most of it never happened." This is what makes Big Fish so endearing. It also allows for a lot more fantastical elements to be shown through the embellishments of Ed's tales. The movie frequently flashes back to the present to show new people on the bench jumping into the story (some hilariously more interested in what he is saying than others).īig Fish is less of a story about life pushing you around like a feather in the wind than a story about a father and son reconciling in the final days they have together. It is there we get flashbacks throughout his life. Forrest ( Tom Hanks) is a man who is telling his life story to a circulation of strangers at a bus stop. Even in its questionable presentation of some topics, it still manages to have a lot of heart that makes the movie so memorable. It is an incredibly well-made film, one that is almost unanimously said to be better than the book it is based on.
From intense war sequences to a romance across decades, Forrest Gump has managed to place itself as one of the most iconic films of all time, and that is no small feat. Forrest Gump may be the most famous tale of life in American cinema. Not only are Big Fish and Forrest Gump made up of oral stories told to other characters, but many events that take place within the stories seem too far-fetched to be true, even if they are true.
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