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MiddleFingerMom

(25,163 posts)
Sun Apr 7, 2013, 09:51 PM Apr 2013

"Big Fish" is one of my favorite movies ever and I remember it as a wonderful film... [View all]

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... but every time I see it, I've forgotten just HOW wonderful the film is.
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As in wonderful and full of wonder.
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I'm a BIG fan of fairy tales and I think this is (by far) Tim Burton's tour de force.
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AND I forget how, for the last 10 minutes or so of the film, I am crying freely --
not out of sadness but, like some folks react to the opera, because of the beauty
of it.
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Beauty building on beauty building on beauty. A celebration of life.
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And Fucking Immortality. I had forgotten that, too.
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If you can't tell... I kinda recommend it.
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