What’s more important: the story of our life or the stories we tell that make up our lives? If you don’t think there’s a difference, you’re probably much like Billy Crudup’s reporter who’s spent a lifetime being exasperated by his father. Edward Bloom Sr. (played wonderfully by both Ewan McGregor and Albert Finney) lived a life of stories; stories he delighted in telling. Were they tall tales, were they exaggerations, were they flat-out lies? To Crudup that’s all that mattered and to Finney he couldn’t see why the question mattered in the slightest. Continue reading My Favorite Scene – Big Fish (2002) “The Story of My Life”