Impact Of A Soul To A Soul From A Soul

OK. This is a film debuted in 2003. I am slow, so sue me. I have actually heard a lot bout this film from a colleague of mind, which is way past his 50s. Yeah yeah, I thought the same thing too, what does a man of his age and his taste in film would catch mine. Well let me tell you that this film is indeed a very nice movie. I will tell you why in a while.
The story is about the relationship of a man (Edward Bloom) and his son (William Bloom). The story starts with the wedding of William and Edward was telling stories to his daughter-in-law. William was not happy as he thinks that his dad was making a fool of himself as his tales contain a lot of elements considered as fairy tale. The story he was telling is about how this big cat fish is uncatchable by anyone and he caught it with his wedding ring and he just took back his wedding ring and released the fish back in the pond. That was on the day William was born. After that night William has a big argument with Edward and they did not speak to each other for the next 3 years until Edward was about to die of cancer. William got the news and headed back to his parents with his wife.
During his stay, he vowed to get to know his dad closely but he did not believe the stories his dad told him. He thought his dad was lying and stuff. During this time Edward was telling some of his stories to his daughter-in-law.
The stories of Edwards early age was as follows, when he was young he was dared to get the glass eye of a witch, and he did. He looked into the eye and saw how he would die. He was a reputable person and was good in all sports. Through his journey he encounters and made friends with this giant whose name was Carl. He took a road less traveled by other and reached a town called spectra and he stayed a while. He left and promised to return.
Then he spotted a lovely girl and knew he wanted to marry. He went and look for this girl and managed to marry her, but then he was sent to war by the government. During the war, he met a Siamese twin of 2 upper bodies and 1 pair of legs.
He returned to spectra and he then bought all the house and land there with the help of his friend in spectra. He and Carl the giant rebuild a house of a young lady as well.
William was having a hard time believing all the stories and decided to clean the pool. He was shocked when a huge catfish emerged in the pool. He was also speechless when the young lady of the house Edward rebuilds told him the story.
The last story in the movie was William recalling the story Edward told him which is to break him out of hospital and drove him to the river. When they reach the river, all his friends were there, the giant, the people of spectra, the circus owner, the Siamese twin, everyone was there. They were sending Edward off. Edward was dropped in the river and he turned into a catfish.
With this story Edward passed away. During his funeral, William saw all his dad�s friends attending the funeral. The circus owner, the giant, twins and all those in his stories.

It is often enough that we are some times embarrassed by our parents or family or even relatives, I know I am. We always had friend that their parents are the doctors, engineers, or whatsoever professional they are and ours always seem to be not that great. We always say we are proud of our parents and we should be, but is that always the truth. I doubt it.
Let not talk about that and ponder upon our relationship or communication between you and your parents. Does the phrase generation gap ring a bell? I bet it does. We always seek to be understood and say it�s because of generation gap that they don�t understand us, but have we thought about it in a different perspective, do we understand them. Have we done enough to try to understand them? Don�t you think it should be mutual where they seek to understand us and we should return it by trying to understand them. The saying goes �when you grow older you will understand why your parents are like that�, and I believe it�s true. Don�t you think so? Ask those who are close to you who have been a father/mother. They will be able to answer.
I guess what I am trying to say is that we have always wanted to be listened, but have we done anything to deserve the attention? Shouldn�t we be realistic and start listening to those we want them to listen to us. If we don�t listen, then we would not be listened to as well. I guess if people listened to you then you would listen back to them in return rite.
Think bout it�

�Seek to listen and understand so we are better understood�