A movie review: Stranger Than Fiction

Imagine that you're running your everyday life which, simply put, is rather average when you suddenly hear a voice narrating your every action. Bad enough that you're distracted and spooked out by the ominous voice, it suddenly hints that death is close in the near future with the inevitable development of your life's plot. You then do all you can to find the owner of this 'voice' and stop it from narrating your life to a tragic end.

This is exactly what happened to Harold Crick who is an auditor with a very much average life, that is until the 'voice' descends on him. He is a man so ruled by numbers that he sees figures everywhere. He counts the number of strokes while brushing, the exact number of minutes he takes to knot his tie and even the number of steps he takes to the bus stop. This all is disrupted when he suddenly hears a woman narrating his life and suddenly dropping a hint that his story ends soon with his death. He then does all he can to try to find this author and change the ending of his story before he is dead.

I would like to say that this movie is certainly entertaining enough if you're an avid reader of novels and you appreciate the magical development of a novel's plot and the significance of all the elements that the writer touches on, that ultimately adds meaning to the ending. Literary buffs will enjoy it when the story of Harold Crick is critically analyzed and dissected in his search to piece together the mysterious identity of his narrator.

It is a movie yet in every sense it embodies a novel with a masterful literary touch of reflections on a quiet man and the change in his life that could very well end in tragedy. A very strange man in a very strange story with a seemingly strange ending.