Myths and tall tales are attracted to heroes and eventually submerge and subsume the individual. In Big Fish the opposite is the case as the myths and legends that gather around an ordinary man (indeed that are created by him) actually serve to illuminate and explain his life. After all, we are all the heroes of our own existence and how better to make sense of it than through 'The Story of My Extraordinary Life'?
(Clive Yelf - bwl 63 Winter 2011 ) |
