My favorite of all of Tim Burton's. What is saying ...
A son, now an adult, returns home to accompany his father in his last hours. William, the son in question, is newly married and has grown up as a practical, responsible guy, very far from what his father always was, of whom he thinks he lived in a continuous fantasy, little attached to the earth.
At the foot of his bed, knowing that he is weakened and close to death, he tries to put up with the usual rambling paternal stories. He hates this way of projecting ideas about his own life, he senses that everything that comes out of his father's mouth is a lie that he has never stopped telling him since he was a child.
In those last days of his father, William, tired of putting up with so much nonsense, follows his trail, trying to compose a real life story. He travels through spaces in which he moved, gets closer to people from his past and realizes how his father's fantasies were the positive and beautiful way of accepting his time in the world, recomposing reality in an optimistic and positive sphere in everything. moment and in every situation, no matter how regrettable it may be.
Convinced of the correctness of the steps taken by his father, whose subjectivity had embellished the events of his world, he approaches him in his last moments with another, much more condescending and absolutely redemptive perspective. The paper of Ewan McGregor In this gradual discovery of the father, which is the real crux of the movie, it is simply brilliant.
During the last minutes it will be Willian himself who, at his father's request, will tell him about the moment when he is preparing to die. Willian manages to access that plane where reality is sublimated. His father is that big fish, the big fish that he takes out of the hospital through the window and takes him to the nearby river so that its waters can stir him up in his final moments.
The father dies in the hospital bed with a smile and William, who has accompanied him until his last breath, manages to reach that world that turns the darkest into life and color. He understands, finally, that he has had the best father in the world.
The round argument for that Tim Burton shines with his fanciful scenography, with that vital, disconcerting, magical color ... If you immerse yourself in history, it will get you deep.
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