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A 3 page essay that discusses the use of narrative in the film Big Fish (directed by Tim Burton, Columbia Pictures, 2003). This is the story of Edward Bloom (played in his youth by Ewan McGregor and in old age by Albert Finney). Bloom's son Will (Billy Crudup) has grown up with the elaborate tall tales that his father weaves about the years before Will was born. Everyone finds these stories to be entertaining except Will who would like to connect with the truth before Bloom dies of cancer. The film is told in flashbacks which show how Bloom views the fantastical stories that he weaves. Rather than lies, which is how Will perceives his father's stories at the beginning of the picture, the structure of the film serves to demonstrate the role of narrative in human life and it is a lesson that Will learns in time to participate with his father in the process of storytelling before his death. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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Albert Finney). Blooms son Will (Billy Crudup) has grown up with the elaborate tall tales that his father weaves about the years before Will was born. Everyone finds these stories
to be entertaining except Will who would like to connect with the truth before Bloom dies of cancer. The film is told in flashbacks which show how Bloom views the
fantastical stories that he weaves. Rather than lies, which is how Will perceives his fathers stories at the beginning of the picture, the structure of the film serves to demonstrate
the role of narrative in human life and it is a lesson that Will learns in time to participate with his father in the process of storytelling before his death.
The role of narrative in this film can best be understood through examination of Walter Fishers Narrative Paradigm (Fournier, 2005). Fisher proposes that the purely rational Enlightenment reasoning that
presents the world as a "set of logical puzzles that we can solve through rational analysis" is too limited and that rather people are basically storytellers and that narrative rationality
can be determined by the coherence and fidelity of our stories (Fournier, 2005). Fisher proposes that people first examine a narrative for coherence, that is, if a story holds together
and makes sense in our world (Fournier, 2005). Then, we check the narrative fidelity and compare it to whether or not it matches our own "beliefs and experience" and therefore
portrays the world we live in (Fournier, 2005). Within the framework of the stories we choose, we constantly recreate our lives (Fournier, 2005). Using this framework, Blooms stories can
be seen as forming the way that he conceives reality. Bloom and his wife Sandra may not have actually been a field full of daffodils that Bloom remembers, yet it
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