Although The Fisher
King is definitely much more of a Terry Gilliam film than a Robin Williams
show, I’d never seen it before and so took the unfortunate occasion of Williams’
death to watch and review it. I say it’s a Gilliam film, but thtat’s based
almost entirely on the visual style. The story elements contain themes that
continually come up in Gilliam’s films such as the age-old conflict between
good and evil. But in the character of Parry, a homeless ex-college professor
suffering traumatic delusions owing to the witnessing of the brutal murder of
his wife, it also becomes, in retrospect, a great Robin Williams vehicle.
