Thoughts on a movie "Stranger than Fiction"

 What will happen to you if you find out that you are a part of a fictional story; or the fictional story that has being written is upon your life. Its strange. Fictional writers create their own characters, but what if that created character is happen to be an actual person. 

The movie “Stranger than fiction” follows the same story. It was directed by Marc Forster, produced by Lindsay Doran and written by Zach Helm. It came out in 2006. The main character is Harold Crick ( Will Ferrell ). He is an IRS agent. His life is quite simple and mundane like any other human being until he starts hearing a female voice narrating his actions. Things starts changing when the voice narrated that Harold Crick was going to die. He figured out with the help of professor Hilbert that he might be in a fictional story. But it is not sure whether the story is comedy where the death can be avoided or a tragedy where death of a main character can not be avoided. Then the story revolves around Crick tries to find a way to stop his death by finding that author. 

Harold Crick is a man of numbers. His life revolves around time and numbers. Everything in his life is calculated. He even counts his brush strokes and foot steps he take to reach his office. He didn’t had any family or friends. It changed when he heard about his death. The movie shows that life is unpredictable and it might be that we are wasting most of our life in doing things we don’t enjoy that much. 

Second important part of the movie is the author Karen Eiffel, who is writing story on Harold Crick. She is suffering from writer’s block. She is unable to decide how to kill her character. When she finally finds out how to kill her character she comes to know that Harold Crick is an actual person and not just fictional character, and if she kill Harold in her book the actual Harold will also die. 

The ending of the movie is beautiful in its own way. What makes it more beautiful is point of view of author Karen Eiffel. Did she killed her character anyway? If she did decided to kill, how did Harold escape the fictional death? Or he was not able to escape it? To find out you have to watch movie. 

Overall the movie is beautiful. The story is different and attractive. Actors have acted beautifully just according to the need of the story. It actually looked like a story of a human being like one of us. I am very late to post this as movie was released many years ago but it is indeed very unique, simple and impressive movie.

Thank you.