We could all use a little magic in our lives, and that is precisely what BIG is about. This movie is great, it's funny and cute, but that is not why it works so well. Big has lasted because it passes on a little bit of it's magic to us. It reaches for simplicity and takes the audience with it. In a complicated world, Big reminds us that there was once a time when we all had to be home before dark and the most pressing issues of the day were baseball and girls.
Tonight, I watched BIG for the first time in probably ten years. My perception of the movie completely shifted in that span. As twelve year old kid watching the movie, like every other twelve year kid watching the movie, I wanted to be a grown up kid to have a penthouse trampoline and my own pepsi machine. Tonight, though, I saw the movie from the other side. I saw it through the eyes of someone ten years older, more experienced, more realistic, and maybe more cynical. At the same time, though, I identified with his longing to go home again, to rejoin his childhood and give up the stress of the adult world.
The character of Josh Baskin is a bridge between the two sides, the child and the adult. He shows how purity of heart and earnestness of soul, the traits of a child, are ideals to be prized and held on to no matter how old you are. Sure, it's naive and unrealistic. It is most definitely silly. But, that is why it's so great and important. And, that is why Big has endured when so many other movies haven't. It makes a connection, giving us a little magic and letting us, if only for a second, be a kid again.
Tom Hanks won raves for his Oscar nominated performance (1988, Best Actor) as a twelve-year-old boy trapped inside a thirty year old body in director ...More at Buy.com
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