Critics have already been comparing Tim Burton's new film Big ikan to Forrest Gump, which is somewhat of a mis-association. American history happens to a passive Tom Hanks in Robert Zemeckis's endearing but naïve Oscar-winner. In Big Fish, Edward Bloom (Ewan McGregor) happens to the American pastoral. In many ways, comparisons to Denys Arcand's heinous The Barbarian Invasions are lebih appropriate. Both films center around a father-son disconnect, but only one truly attempts to understand the rocky relationship between parents and children. lebih positively, the film also plays out as a magical...
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