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Stranger Than Fiction, in which IRS agent Will Ferell hears Emma Thompson’s voice in his head and realizes he is a character in a novel she is writing, reminded me of two short novels I enjoyed very much in college (They weren’t in the curriculum): The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold by Evelyn Waugh, in which the protagonist hears voices annotating his life, and The Comforters by Muriel Spark, in which the heroine hears someone typing out her life story and realizes she is in a novel.
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February 1st, 2007 at 02:13
This was one of my favorite movies of 2006. It was really brilliant that Spoon’s Britt Daniels (one of the most underrated songwriters today!) scored the soundtrack. The choice to use The Jam’s music at the scene where Harold Crick rides the bus was good. The best though was the use of Wreckless Eric’s Whole Wide World as the song that Harold first learns to play on his guitar, eventually leading to that pivotal scene with Ana Pascal.
Will Ferrell finally shows his range as an actor with this film.