Watched on 2008/05/02
ビッグ・フィッシュ ／ Big Fish
ちゃこちゃんの選出作品 Fujihira-san's selection
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今回は私の選出映画でした。
数年前に劇場で観て、すごく感動したはずのビッグフィッシュ・・・。
確かに私好みの映画ですが、オチを知って二度目に観ると、なんだか「それほどでも・・・」と思ってしまいました。すみません。前に観て感動しなかったのに、時間を経て観るとすごく感動するってこともありますが、ちょっと今回は逆でした。
とはいえ、おとぎ話の世界を再現した美しい映像の大放出。こんな夢のような人生を受け入れることが出来るなら、ホラを吹くのも悪くない。
父の人生を長年敬遠していた息子ですが、やがて父の、嘘も真実も、全てを受け入れていくまでの、あの微妙な心の変化が好きです。
この映画の「夢」のパートには、私が大好きな映画、８ １／２に何となく似た空気が流れています。
「なんでもアリだよ、楽しくやろうよ！ それが映画だ、人生だ！」
そんな歓喜のメッセージが伝わってきて、泣きそうになるあの感覚が似ています。今度は60歳くらいになったら観てみようかな。また違った感動が得られるかもしれません。
藤平 久子
Tim Burton is a storyteller. Once ("Edward Scissorhands") he created a superb modern fable, at most other times (for me, "Sleepy Hollow" or "Nightmare Before Christmas", for example) he missed the mark by a mile. Here he's in between.
As usual there's the Tim Burton self-conscious 'weirdness' - sometimes in the actual story, sometimes just in the literally twisted sets (again - already seen in "Beetlejuice", "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", "Planet of the Apes", "Sweeney Todd", ad nauseum). To me, his warped mind feels limited to the set, as though it's a creation rather than a function of his way of thinking. Still, with "Big Fish", Burton mixes this weirdness with occasionally more straightforward emotions - the latter working surprisingly well.
And anyone tackling death as a subject in Hollywood is worth checking out - it's a subject often avoided in any real sense of analysis. Burton combines it with a study of story-telling and how 'stories' can and do actually make up a 'real' life.
Although it's a good subject, and ultimately quite well told, nevertheless, a simple throwaway revelation that stories may be true, when Keith Carradine's 'lies' are verified in "Choose Me", sits in my memory more persistently than this long attempt to explain. And in more recent years, "Finding Neverland"'s tear-jerking farewell - combing real-life death and storytelling - also worked better. It's Tim Burton's relentless desire to display his twisted life-view - which, for me, just isn't that dark or that twisted - that lets him down. And sometimes, a simpler approach (as, indeed, in sections of this film) improve the impact. I suppose you either buy in to someone else's fantasy or not, and I just don't buy in to Burton's on the whole.
Here he's also let down by a strange decision to cast three English actors in three main roles of southern Americans and have them practice grating accents. Was this a deliberate choice to emphasise the "fictional" nature of things or a preference for these actors? I don't know, but their accents aren't good enough for a true sense of reality. And,finally, as too often, Danny Elfin's music get in the way.
In summary, Burton lovers will probably love it. Others may well struggle. As a sense of real emotion makes its way in, however, this is, for me, better than much of his work.
- Andrew
『ビッグフィッシュ』は二度目でした。父親のホラ話に翻弄されるも、やがて父親を理解し、愛していく息子…。決して嫌いな映画ではありません。ラストで父親の葬儀に多くの友人たちが集まるシーンは特に好きです。葬儀のシーンでは僕の中ではベスト５に入ります。
でも実は、実際の父親の人生もそれはたいした人生であり、決して平凡ではなく、そう思うと二度目に観た時はちょっと白けてしまいました。
過去と現在が次々と交叉していく構成は、回想回想しすぎているわけでもなく、面白い手法として僕は楽しめました。
江良 至