Question

What is the significance of the title Big Fish? How does this relate to the folk saying about being a “big fish in a little pond”? Does Edward Bloom become more than or less than a “big fish”? Provide an example from the text to support your answer.

Answer 1

Big Fish is basically a movie. It involves the elements of fantasy and drama. It is mainly based on a novel. Novel's name is also same i.e. "Big Fish". Edward Bloom is the author of this novel. He was gifted with a talent of storytelling.

This movie talks about various dimensions of father-son relationship. It also presents different different perspectives of what is real and what non real. It tries to draw a line between reality, non reality and partial reality.

Big fish basically symbolizes something which is immortal. It tries to denote the fact that when fish becomes bigger and bigger then it leaves the small pond and swims to some other place where it can survive till infinity. Various elements of myths are also involved in this movie.

There are certain phrases which depicts that how Edward passes through puberty in few seconds only. This type of incidents can not take place in reality. It seems to be just combination of myth and imagination. In this movie Edward keep on telling stories to different people.

There is also a dialogue between his son and his son's wife where his son says that stories of his father are not true. This movie is a perplex mixture of emotions, imaginations, myths, arguments and deep meaning conversations.