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Big Fish (2003)
Autobiography of a B.S. artist
Ever know someone who exaggerates or just plain makes up everything they say? Sure you have, everyone has known someone like this, they're called B.S. artists, and most people are annoyed by them. This movie is the autobiography of a B.S. artist, and it is every bit as infuriating as you would think it is.
A man raised by a B.S. artist visits his father, who he hasn't spoken to in years because he got tired of the mans crap. He tries desperately to get to know his father, having been lied to his whole life he feels he doesn't really know him. His father continues to lie to him, and keeps spinning ridiculous tales.
SPOILERS
The father finally has a stroke, and his son asks him how much of the crap he was told was true. The father says it was all true. That's just great. Perfect. A son estranged from his B.S. artist dad desperately tries to reconnect, to get past all the lies, and on his deathbed his father refuses to admit what is true and what is not. Sheesh, what a jerk.
Le ballon rouge (1956)
I don't get it
Back in the '70's and early '80's my elementary school would would show us this short film every year. I just don't get it, at all. A kid finds a balloon. The balloon follows him around. His mother wont let the balloon in the house, so it hovers outside his window (kind of creepy). It is not like I hated it as a kid, but every damn year they showed it to us. Everyone else writing a review seems to love it, God bless them, but I didn't get it then, and I don't get it now. Every year, every stinking year, they'd make us sit through this garbage. I have to add another line or IMDb will not let me post this, so that is what this last line is about.