BIG Fish

Tim Burton (2003)

This film follows the incredible life of Edward Bloom, through a series of flashbacks that begin when his son Will visits him for the last time. Will hasn't spoken to his father for years because he believes him to be a liar that never really cared for his family. In a series of legends and myths inspired by the few facts he knows about his father, Will learns about his father's life through these tales, and begins to understand his father's great feats and his great failings.

ASSIGNMENT:

1. How does the life of Edward Bloom symbolize the "big fish?"

2. What themes are present in this story?

DUE: Tuesday, January 19

La vita è bella ~ Life is Beautful

Roberto Benigni (1997)

1939 Arezzo, Italy. Guido, a Jewish book keeper starts a fairy tale life by courting and marrying a lovely woman from a nearby city. Guido and his wife have a son and live happily together until the occupation of Italy by German forces. In an attempt to hold his family together and help his son survive the horrors of a Jewish Concentration Camp, Guido imagines that the Holocaust is a game and that the grand prize for winning is a tank.