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Big Fish

Big Fish is an exciting movie about a father telling tall tales to his son about his life.  Some of the stories include a big fish who stole his wedding ring, an old witch who has a glass eye that when looked into shows how a person will die, a giant, and a perfect town that no one ever left.  The son enjoys hearing about his father’s stories as a young boy but eventually grows tired of them.  As the son grows older, he and his father quit talking because he feels as if he does not know any real facts about his father.  In the end, his father is on his death bed and all he wants is for his son to make up a tall tale of how he passes.  This film is truly inspirational and connects to many important values in life such as family tradition, love, and the outlook on life.

Since having children of my own, I have noticed myself exaggerating my voice and body language when talking to them.  In a small way, I feel like my children see me in the same light as the young son saw his father.  The father said, “A man tells his stories so many times that he becomes the stories. They live on after him. And in that way, he becomes immortal.”  If only I was able to see my life events in such a manner, how fascinating would that be? To become immortal, in a sense, to the people I love most in life.

I love reading short stories, poems, and quotes and thinking about how they relate to me or my life.  Sometimes I will find one that is so impressionable I get goose bumps and almost feel as if the author wrote it for me. This film is chock-full of inspirational sayings and puns that I absolutely enjoyed and, therefore, may have also influenced why this film was so powerful.