Stranger Than Fiction
First off, I do not like romantic comedies. They are the epitome of sick entertainment as far as I am concerned. No, I have not seen Notting Hill and I do not intend to.
Fortunately, Stranger Than Fiction is not a romantic comedy and I thank the producers for it.
Will Ferrell is an IRS agent who lives by numbers and calculations. His life follows a strict routine for more than a decade until he begins to hear a female narrator giving live commentary on what he is doing.
It turns out that the narrator is a real author, Emma Thompson, facing a writer's block because she does not know how to kill the hero of her latest book. The hero's identity should be obvious.
Along the way our IRS agent has to audit a baker, Maggie Gyllenhaal, whom he eventually falls for. That part was a bit predictable but the way it happens in this movie it is too funny to complain.
After a while the author announces that the hero, Harold Crick, is facing imminent death and things go into top gear.
Harold now has to race to find the author and ask her not to kill him because he is real and whatever she writes is actually happening to him.
Among the hilarious events of the movie are the over-the-top attempts by Emma Thompson to discover a way to kill off Harold Crick.
This is a very pleasant comedy that is not to be missed and is filled with witty one-liners that will make you smile.
Do not try to work out the connection between a fictional character and a real life man. Enjoy the experience.
"I may already be dead, just not typed," Harold Crick.
1 comments:
Sounds interesting. I want to see or hear more of writer's block so this one I will watch :-)
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