Stranger Than Fiction
Thursday April 12, 2007 | 0 comments
This is one of those rare gems that combines clean innocent humor with mundane reality of life weaving into the plot a few dramatically tragic twists. Quite brilliant, indeed. Few movies are as well balanced as this one, making you laugh and cry almost in the same scene. It would be funny, if it weren’t so sad, and sad, if it weren’t so funny.
This is a movie about an IRS agent (Will Ferrell) whose watch changes his life and saves the day. Ultimately, it is about much more than that and turns out to be as complicated as life itself. There is a recluse writer (Emma Thompson), an eccentric literature professor (Dustin Hoffman), and a hippie cookie-baking Harvard law school drop-out who come together to challenge Harold Crick (Will Ferrell) and who, in turn, walk away challenged.
You get two for one with this movie: you see how scripts are written and then you watch how those script are made into a movie. The movie is made simultaneously with the script being written. The odd twist? The man at the center turns out to be real flesh and bones, not a figment of the writer’s imagination.
Whether that makes a difference and how it affects the story you really have to see for yourself. I promise you will love it, especially if you are a fan of Emma Thompson and witty dry humor.
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