“Big Fish” and my own story [Mizumaru Kawahara’s CINEMONOLOGUE Vol.37]

Helena Bonham Carter Three Changes

Ewan McGregor, who plays the young Edward, is charming, but Burton's muse from this period, Helena Bonham Carter, is also impressive. She appears in different forms many times in the play. First, she plays the role of a creepy witch that Edward visited when he was a child to test his mettle, and it is said that the eyes beneath her eyepatch reflect the death scenes of those who saw her. Helena Bonham Carter also plays the adult Jennifer, the girl Edward meets in the mysterious town of Spectre. Also, in the modern part, when Will visits the old Edward as someone who knows him, he appears even older. The witch's make-up is amazing, and Jennifer's roles in different generations are so different that it's hard to believe they were filmed at the same time. I have no idea how old I actually am at this point.

By visiting Jennifer, Will hears Edward's story for the first time from someone other than himself. According to her, Edward wanders into a deserted town on his way home from work, but it turns out to be Spectre's town, which he had visited before. It used to be a bright and happy town where the residents lived barefoot, but now the town has fallen into disrepair, but Edward works with people to rebuild it. In the process, he reunites with Jennifer, who has grown from a girl to an adult. Jennifer is attracted to Edward, but he does not respond to her love for his wife and children. Jennifer grows old alone and eventually becomes a witch with an eyepatch...

Of course, that doesn't make sense. Will points this out, but Jennifer tells him to think like Edward. In other words, Edward may have dramatized the people he met in his life and made them appear here and there. Not only the characters, but also the town of Spectre, the contrast between the cheerful and beautiful scene in which it first appears and the desolate state in which it reappears later on shows us that it has lost its luster once in its life. I feel like it represents something like. The point is that you wander into a town that has completely changed on your way home from work. Edward restores it beautifully and returns home to his wife and child without staying with the girl he reunited with. To begin with, ``Spectre'' is a town with a name that refers to ghosts and illusions. Rather than a real person, I think it's more like a symbol of the beautiful memories Edward left behind in his past. Even though he was touched by beautiful memories, Will learned that he had moved on for the sake of his beloved wife and son.

A tall tale as an interpretation of life