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BFG

Sometimes, surviving into the real world seems to be an x game. When “enough is enough”, it is
important to find a way to relieve our daily routine. A good movie may be an appropriate short-term
solution, offering us a temporary escape route from challenges of the daily life. This is especially
true watching fantasy movies, when our inner child is free to dream in an ideal world, and where
good always triumphs over evil.
If you want to experience this
magic feeling, do not miss the
recent movie titled “The Big
Friendly Giant”.
BFG is a 2016 American
fantasy film directed and co-
produced by Steven Spielberg,
written by Melissa Mathison
and based on the 1982 novel,
with the same title, by Roald
Dahl.
This film tells the imaginative
story of Sophie, a 10-year old British orphan girl, and a “peculiar” giant, dubbed “Big Friendly
Giant” or, indeed, “BFG”, who introduces her to the wonders and perils of Giant Country. In fact,
BFG, while a giant himself, is a lovely giant
and nothing like the other inhabitants of
Giant Country. Standing 24-feet tall with
enormous ears and a keen sense of smell,
BFG is endearingly dim-witted and a little
dyslexic, and keeps to himself for the most
part. In the Giant Country, all other giants
are twice as big and at least twice as scary
and they have been known to eat humans,
especially children, while BFG prefers
“Snozzcumber” (a cucumber-like vegetable
that is the only thing he can eat, because he
refuses to eat human beings)
and “Frobscottle” (a delicious
green-colored fizzy drink,
where the bubbles go down
instead of up, and that is the
cause of ridiculous bumpy
flatulence).
Upon her arrival in Giant
Country, Sophie is initially
frightened of the mysterious

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