Aaron Hackett Video Blog 4

Big Fish is a film that depicts how important myth can be in the act of story telling. For the most part, everyone can agree that telling a story will not be able to get across the same feeling. Myth is then the best way for the storyteller to get the listener’s to feel the same thing they felt. Big Fish demonstrates myth through extravagant tales. For example, the Asian twins were not actually two people on one set of legs, but they did spend all of their time together or “joined at the hip”. The giant also wasn’t actually a giant but a very tall man. The fact that these people weren’t what he said they were isn’t important, what is important is that the listener or viewer had they same feeling that he did when he encountered these people.