Oh would you look at that: another Terry Gilliam film, The Fisher King

The fisher king is an amazing film that personally I hold as a great film. The main protagonist Jack was once a huge celebrity in the radio community, but one mistake that has cost peoples lives and sanity has sent him into a spiral of regret that he can only climb by helping the people he had hurt most. And he ends up doing so; Perry is an insane man who fantasises that he is on a mission from god and that little fat men are telling him what to do. The main plot of the film is, as I call it, “getting Perry’s holy grail” but in truth by getting this Holy Grail that belongs to a millionaire jack is in turn getting his “holy grail” by helping some one he has hurt. If were looking at this in a mythological sense we are looking at the Holy Grail. In the story of the Holy Grail king Arthur’s land, the UK, is filled with pestilence and disease. So he goes on search for this artefact that can help him remove all the troubles of the land. That is a metaphor that is used in this film and is used at the end of the film. Perry had lost his wife in a club shooting that has now rendered him insane and homeless, well he douse live in the basement of a flat building but… jack now feels that he has to help him get his dream girl, help him and get his holy grail back. The end of the film is very powerful and jack has to literally break into a mansion because the red knight (along with 2 teenagers that appeared at the start of the film) caught Perry (made him remember the killing of his wife) and sent him into a coma. Jack gets the Holy Grail and brings it to Perry who upon waking says “I met a beautiful girl is it okay to miss her?” ill just leave you with that…