Burton made a very ‘normal’ film, a drama about Margaret who has a very distinctive style of painting children with big eyes. She flees her first husband, soon runs into her second. This second husband proves fairly good in promoting her art, but under his own name…
In the 1950’ies we see a woman who tries to be independent but society is not ready for independent women so she keeps living under male domination. Until she decides to bring out the truth that is!
“Big Eyes” is an alright drama, but nothing really out of the ordinary.