Research Paper On Big Fish

Big fish is a movie base on a novel written by David Wallace. Tim Burton directed the movie came out in the United States on January 9th 2004. Through the words of Wallace and the cinematographic genius of Burton, we are given an idea about life and the way we choose to integrate ourselves into each other’s life. Edward Bloom is one of the main characters in the movie, unfortunately for him he is dying of cancer, as human being we have that fear of being forgotten. As a result, we have that knowledge thanks to Will Bloom that Edward has been telling his life story to whom ever will let him borrow an ear. “Big fish raises the Hermeneutic question how narrative truth relates to factual truth how “ what is said happened? “ relates to “ what really …show more content…
In his attempt to show know who she was, he met one man that had all the answers; his name was Amos Calloway he was the owner and presenter. Later we found out that Calloway was a friend with Edward beloved’s family. In order for him to have the information about who she was, a deal was strike between them: he would tell him one thing about her every month so as long as he does chores for him without monetary payment. Inconsequently for Edward, knowing something about her was enough to last him until the next month. It took Edward three years to finally learn the name and the whereabouts of his beloved. Her name was Sandra Templeton and she leaves in a sorority house at Auburn University (Wallace and August). Spending three years in a circus doing mundane work with no paid, while being fed once a month like a gold fish, with one piece of information about Sandra per month. It is bit much for any young and vibrant young man would be willing to undertake. Edward teaches us is that in the matter of the heart, time is nothing but couple turns of a clock. He was willing to be fed one piece of information per month about Sandra if he meant that he would know more about