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Summary Of The Movie 'Big Water'

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1. The method the narrator uses to open the story is though short words or phrases. The movie opens with the narrator talking about a fish saying, “There are some fish that cannot be caught. It’s not that they’re faster or stronger than other fish. They’re just touched by something extra.”(Big Fish) This way of opening the story does not get right into the story, it does not give any background information, nor does it imply anything. 2. The point of view demonstrated in the movie was first person, the movie is a compilation of stories that Ed Bloom Senior had told about his life. 3. The theme of the movie is; even the most embellished stories have some truth in them. Later in the movie, the mother tells her son” not everything your father says is a complete fabrication”; in addition, in the funeral scene everyone from the fathers stories was present. Combined these two points show that all of the father’s stories had some truth in them. 4. …show more content…

In the movie the father and son are similar in the fact they are both “story tellers” or so the father tells his son; however, the son believes they are nothing alike. At the beginning of the movie the son prefers what he considers to be truth, what actually happened, even if the story told is not much of a story; in contrast, the father prefers to embellish his stories changing them to captivate his audience. The son changes throughout the movie becoming more like his father, by the end of the story on his father deathbed he makes up a story to tell his father how he dies. At the end of the story, they become more alike than they were at the start of the

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