Local legend stated that those who look into the eye of the witch would be able to see into the future and learn how they die. So says young Ed Bloom, creeping through the rural Alabama darkness surrounded by a flock of neighborhood children. The spookiness is courtesy of director Tim Burton, the movie is Big Fish, the year is 2003, and one of the young neighborhood children is a pre-fame Miley Cyrus. What could possibly go wrong?
As young Ed Bloom discusses with the witch (Helena Bonham Carter), “I was thinking about death and all. About seeing how you’re gonna die. I mean, on one hand, if dying was all you thought about, it could kind of screw you up. But it could kind of help you, couldn’t it? Because you’d know that everything else you can survive.” In response, the witch smiles and winks at him. Thus Ed Bloom learns the manner of his death, never revealed to audiences until the very end of the movie. But the realization sets the scene for the misadventures that…
