Stranger than Fiction: A Book on the Screen

Despite all other opinions, I think reading a book is conceptually a different experiance than watching a movie, even though they both, most of the time, serve the same purpose; entertainment, joke, a tear (for some out there), etc. No doubts, both of them are arts, but are different kind of arts.

This movie, whether they meant it or not, tries to give a book experiance in a movie, even though the movie is not based on a book! I am not sure how many movies tried that before, but I know Adaptation tried it before, but the movie was based on a real book. I thought Adaptation was boring and horrible, even though it won many awards, which kind of confirm my point. There is a first for everything, and for my knowledge, this movie was the first to feel like reading a novel. This movie was a book on the screen; it was purely brilliant.

Harold Crick, an IRS agent who is gifted with numbers and lives a very routince life with his wrestwatch being the main character of his life, starts hearing his life narrated by a woman's voice. He goes to a shrink, but after he insists he is not crazy, the shrink sends him to prof. Hilbert, who is experiance in the theory of English literature. Hilbert starts helping him to find what is the story that Harold Crick is living.

Harold Crick is the most normal, average, or regular person in today's standards. In fact, he is your tasteless, colorelss, oderless lunch, but at the same time, the meal does not look or taste bad. He seems successful. He does not love his job, and he does not hate it. He is single, and been doing the same thing over and over again. Portraying this image was just great. The image that he is so 'normal' or 'average' that it is unique! Almost every shot he was in, the decoration, or the background picture was the simplest that it could be. His apartment was just normal, his clothes, everything is just normal, not outstanding in a good or a bad way!

On the other hand, everyother person stands out between the crowd for some thing that is different about him/her. There was Anna Pascal, the baker, a smart, hippie, against the laws girl. The freaky weird writer. The strange professor. All other characters had something different about them, which in itself made him Harold more normal.

The movie was classified as comedy, however, it's not the kind of comedy that cracks up people. It's very detailed situational comedy, that if you are not paying attention you wont get the joke. Though, I liked the movie. The movie was different, new, creative, entertaining, and moving.

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* I started this post then things came up, and decided to cut it short and just finish it before I sleep otherwise I would never finish it, though I have a lot more to talk about the movie. I really like the movie, and think it was very creative. The good interesting kind of creativeity, not 300 kind of creativity!!