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Watching "Big Fish", I first admit that the film is very clever and describes the feelings of my son and father in detail. But later, I felt the hypocrisy of this film. Especially when it comes to Jennifer's memories, I feel the weakness of the film. What exactly does this movie reflect? In fact, I think this is a visual display of the American spirit, an allegorical film version of the American spirit.

Now I have an unconfirmed illusion that a good movie is actually a fantasy. Like Titanic, in fact, there is also a fable of love in this movie based on historical facts. This fable describes the altruism, class and randomness of love from beginning to end. This fable has been interpreted countless times by classic literary works, but the film is still repeated like discovering the new continent, and it still effectively touches a large number of people.

The Big Fish is such a fable that expresses the American spirit through the relationship between father and son.

1 and Sanguan finished the creation of Father.

The level of fable is actually a deep excavation of a well-known superficial event in ordinary events. The more we dig out the deep meaning from the common phenomenon, the more we show the author's insight. The father-son relationship in Big Fish is the most common relationship among human beings, but the depth of the film still allows us to see the amazing sharp eyes achieved by literary and artistic works.

At least in China's films, the relationship between father and son is very simple. Either pity the father or fuck the father. The former is proved by Zhu Ziqing's back and Luo Zhongli's father, while the latter is proved by Lu Xun's abstract of essays. In addition, there are few fathers who are too three-dimensional in the middle.

"Big Fish" is very enlightening to us at this point. The father likes to talk big When he was a child, he was easily attracted by his own stories, thus forming a legendary view of his father. But after entering the society, the son found that what his father said did not exist, but was invented by his father. From then on, his affection for his father changed again and again until he was opposed to his father.

Father is actually a multi-faceted contradiction. I am deeply touched by this. Children's understanding of their fathers has a look-up and worship perspective. When they step into the society, they find that their father's narrative is always utopia, and their sons often have a sense of disillusionment. At this time, there will be resistance to the father's narrative. I'm surprised that this film reveals so many complicated connotations in the father-son relationship so skillfully and profoundly. This feeling, just like in the seven colors, also found a lot of excessive colors. Here, at least three connotations are embodied:

First, my father regards fantasy life as real life, which is a subjective angle that a person often uses when expressing his life. Is there no strong subjectivity in any of our narratives? Don't we often say that life is our own protagonist? The father in the film may be more self-centered, but it should be said that egoism is everyone's characteristic, but the film strengthens this characteristic of the father. Second, after the son's self-awareness awakens, he will inevitably replace his father's center with his own center. At this time, he will watch his father's life as an outsider, and inevitably feel that his father is not the protagonist in the narrative. At this time, the spiritual pillar will collapse, thus forming the contradiction between father and son in the film. Thirdly, when researching his father's life, the son made his perspective obey his father's life trajectory, that is, he entered his father's life. At this time, his oblique angle of view is shifted because of another angle that cuts into his father's angle of view, which is the most important aristocratic story of his father told by Jennifer in the film. As a third-party perspective, this story conquered the son's past prejudice against his father.

It can be said that the film completes the narrative process from three perspectives. That is, the first father's point of view is a kind of self-view, so here the father is a hero, the second point of view is the son's point of view, here the father is a bear (the son's awakened egoism suppresses the father's self), and the third point of view is the woman Jennifer's point of view. This view reversed the son's mistake with the tone of transcendental god, thus returning to the image of the father in the first view, and that's all.

These three viewpoints established in the film are really intriguing, which is enough to show the father's image completely and hierarchically. The existence of ideas in movies is actually not new, like Rashomon. However, it should be noted that in these views, only the viewing differences between independent individuals are caused by different interests. In Big Fish, these three viewpoints are completely connected in series by the theme of "family", so these three viewpoints are interlocking, and the family is decomposed into such delicacy and multi-levels.

2. What is the embodiment of American spirit?

Many Hollywood movies are disseminators of the American spirit. The movie Big Fish tells how Hollywood shapes the American spirit from a certain angle.

The father in the film exaggerates the fantasy of life, the twists and turns of the plot and the legendary color, which is what Hollywood movies are used to.

My father's American spirit is shown in the film in a very hierarchical way. First, when expressing this American spiritual source, my father has a confidence in his own destiny. When I was a child, the witch's prophecy told me how my father died, so he could ignore death and stand up to the super giant. Second, when expressing the characteristics of this American spirit, it is the continuous development of the father. The ghost town is beautiful, but it doesn't stop my father from continuing to explore the world. Think about it, the development history of American continent is inspired by the persistent exploration spirit of American ancestors to the unknown world. Therefore, my father did not indulge in the beauty and romance of ghost towns, and resolutely went out to explore the world. Third, it is my father's never giving up when he shows this concrete behavior of American spirit. This is highlighted in the process of father's pursuit of mother. On the surface, my father had no advantage at all, and he was defeated at the beginning, left angrily, but suddenly turned back and touched my mother's heart by hook or by crook.

The moral of the big fish has reached a similar level in expressing the American spirit. The circus owner told him that you are a big fish in a small pond, but this is the ocean, and you will be submerged. Arguably, the meaning of this sentence is to be content with Changle, and to be small and rich means to be safe, which is a bit of the national character of China people. But my father is a symbol of the American spirit. He will never be a big fish in a small pond, but he will be a big fish in the world. He will travel around the world if he has the chance. Considering that Americans did not have much influence during World War I, after World War II, the United States became a big fish in the world. It can be seen that what my father did in the movie is in the same strain as this country, and he is not willing to be a big fish in a small pond and become a big fish in the world ocean. So we say that the symbol of big fish is the symbol of America.

It is worth noting that my father's government behavior in the film is directly a faithful representative of American interests. From the plane to the Korean battlefield, the volunteers and the North Korean army were like clowns, while my father slaughtered countless South Korean and North Korean soldiers like nobody's business. Even better, he also represents the temptation of the United States. The twins were impressed by the American aura represented by their father and volunteered to go to the United States with their father. The film is so brazen in praising the magical power of the American spirit. Comparing China's films to resist US aggression and aid Korea, we can see that Americans have raised the American spirit to the level not inferior to China's films in their own films. So this film can't be shown in China, but Cold Mountain, which embodies the anti-war thought at the same time, can be introduced as a blockbuster.

3. Innovative "virtual" narrative skills.

In essence, the film is a virtual world. Traditional movies are intended to reflect reality, trying to show that they are not virtual, but the mapping and reflection of real life.

Later, contrary to the previous real mapping theory, it directly admitted that the film was virtual and described something that did not exist.

The memory passage of the father in the film is a kind of truth that bluntly claims to be a virtual father, so the color inside is unrealistic exaggeration and the situation is also a magical color. In fact, this passage is only a reconstruction and sublimation of the truth of the focus plane. The film finds a feeling from ordinary life, then enlarges it into the film, making the film an idealized feeling, and then uses this feeling to guide the truth of the film. At this time, with the intention that there is no silver here, the film side loudly declared that the film was subjective, virtual and untrustworthy. In fact, isn't any movie a virtual representation of life? In the past, those so-called truthfulness were desperately trying to hide their own virtuality, but they blindly claimed their own truthfulness. Calling yourself empty in "Big Fish" really shows the sincerity of the film, an undisguised sincerity.

4. The unsatisfactory ending shows the hypocrisy in American spiritual propaganda.

The father's self-display and his son's total denial constitute the main contradiction in the first half of the film. Who is the arbiter of this contradiction?

Jennifer came out, which is a very important key passage in the film. In Jennifer's memory, we can see that his father is a loyal father. He abandoned women's love and showed the noble quality of a man who refused to love in American movies. However, this memory is also very dangerous, because in fact, we can't prove the greatness of men by seduction, because men can't stand temptation. Just like in order not to listen to the witch's song, the protagonists in Troy have to tie themselves to the boat pole when they return home.

However, through this most dangerous passage, the film depicts his father refusing to be corrupted, and American movies seem to have no choice but to take moral evaluation as the only way to shape characters.

However, what we must understand is whether the narrator of the other is accurate. Is it reliable? Rashomon has few objective observers. Similarly, Jennifer's narrative at this time has become an important turning point for her son to change his impression of his father, but who can prove that Jennifer's narrative is fair?

But the film obviously can't find a better way, so we have to emphasize it. In this way, the opposition and contradiction between father and son vanished, the old bad feelings and discord were solved, and the film finally came to a happy ending simply. But it is this ending that is hypocritical, just like the hypocrisy revealed in the American spirit shaped by Hollywood.

When Hollywood shapes the American spirit, it shows it from a neutral angle that seems to be a third party. Its technology and narrative skills, like that Jennifer, are convincing enough, but many times, this narrative is hypocritical. When the United States constantly promotes its own values in the world, in fact, many times, it has gone to the opposite side of its own propaganda.

Just like the weakness of this key narrative in Big Fish, many times, American self-promotion has not aroused people's recognition, but has made more people realize this hypocrisy. This is exactly what the film finally gives people a feeling of hypocrisy.