Movie name: Big Fish & Begonia
Genre: Animation, Romance, Dark Fantasy, Adventure, Drama, Family
Runtime: 105 minutes
Rotten Tomato rating: 91%
IMDB rating: 7.1 / 10
Personal rating: 9/10
Year: 2016
Country: China
Language : Mandarin, English
Writer: Liang Xuan
Directors: Liang Xuan, Zhang Chun
Based on: Three Chinese myths "Zhuangzi"; "Classic of mountains and seas" and "In search of the supernatural"
srcDo you know why the taste of human blood and tears is salty? Because man originated from the sea.
And so, since the birth of man, the sea has been calling to him, finally after death, human souls return to the sea as little beautiful dolphins.
What are you thinking? My head is absolutely gone, right?
Those words are not really mine. The main female lead of this movie was "Chun". The world of lime and our world is not one at all. Behind the eyes of the common man, he lives in another world across the ocean floor.
That is, our earth's sea is connected to their earth's sky. And the people of that world have all the miraculous powers. They control the climate of our earth with that power. The name of this nation is "The Others".
And one of the most important tasks of The Others is to take care of the dolphin-like spirits of the people who die.Well, not so long ago I gave the idea of the nation of lime. Let's give some idea about the story of the movie, what did you say?
It has a few spoilers_
there is a tradition in the country of lime. And that is, whenever one is sixteen years old, according to that custom, on a particular day of the year,
we have to come to the earth for seven days in the form of a red dolphin to drink a special drink ... This is how lime comes to our world. Suddenly she falls in love with a boy and the boy also feels a strange attraction towards lime. But then an unexpected event happened!
On the seventh day, when Chun was about to return home, he was caught in a fishing net.
The boy also lost his life trying to save Lime.
Although Lime is able to return to her own home later, she cannot forget the boy. Bring along, a memento of that boy. Meanwhile, in the world of lime, a boy named "Choi" also likes lime in his mind.
What will happen then? Will Chun's love be able to bring that boy back? Or will lime be involved in another suffocating situation? Chow's feelings towards lime will have any consequences? Who doesn't have to accept extreme sacrifice for the sake of love? If you want to know, you have to watch the movie.
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The aspect of the movie that I like the most is the wonderful combination of 2D and 3D animation. The movie characters were all in 2D. It's like watching a Japanese anime. Again special scenes are shown in 3D; Such as the faces of pigs at the door of the soul, the water of the sea, the roaring lion, etc. And the screenplay that I like so much, what can I say! As well as the outstanding background music ... the whole movie seems to have come to life !!
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It seems to me that the main villain of the movie is Chun's own destiny, his own decision, his own karma.
The movie is the result of three years of hard work by director Liang Xuan and Zhang Chun. The efforts of the two were not in vain. This movie was at the top of the highest grossing Chinese animation movie.
But later, after the release of Ne zha movie, the movie fell behind. Still, personally this movie from Ne zha will be at the top of my list of favorites.
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The Chinese name of the movie is 海棠 海棠 (Dàyú Hǎitáng) which means "fish and Chinese wild-apple flower (begonia)". The wild apple flower or begonia flower is called lime in Chinese. Basically, the heroine of our story has been named from here.
Statutory Warning: "Some nude scenes have been shown for the sake of the story, it is better not to show the movie in front of children / adults
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And the three ending songs that are at the very end of the movie, the third song of it means the song titled big fish, I like it very much. Although I did not understand the point of the lyric; But I like the silence of the whole melody. I really like the movie.I hope you like the movie too.