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STRANGER THAN FICTION
Brilliant performances by Will Ferrell,
Dustin Hoffman and Maggie Gyllenhall
Have you ever felt that you might be living someone else’s life or that maybe the life you are living is an illusion? STRANGER THAN FICTION, now available on DVD, looks at that question from a unique, whimsical, romantic, and endearing eye.
Meet Harold Crick (Will Ferrell), mild-mannered and utterly bored and boring agent for the IRS. Harold wakes up at the same time each morning, catches the same bus, eats the same lunch and dinner, and basically sleepwalks through his life until, one day, he hears a woman’s voice speaking about, of all things, Harold himself. At first, he thinks he’s imagining the voice, particularly after confirming with those around him that no one else other than Harold hears the voice.
Convinced that the voice is indeed a narration of his own life, Harold also is faced with falling in love with an irreverent young baker (Maggie Gyllenhall) whom he is auditing for the IRS. Ultimately, Harold finds an English professor (Dustin Hoffman) who helps Harold discover the truth of what is happening to him. When Harold actually recognizes that the voice he is hearing actually belongs to the author who is trying to finish her book, he becomes aware that he is indeed a character in her book and that he is about to face his own demise. Now what does he do????
The film is a simply amazing metaphor for the life that we live every day. Are we the author of that life or do we give that power away to others? Are we spiritual beings living a human existence so that we can play out the karma of our soul’s journey in this illusion we call life? What happens when we impact another’s life in such a powerful way that the course of life itself is changed? Can love indeed change everything, including our own destiny?
It is so sad and shocking to see the steady parade of unremitting and dark films that has been emanating from Hollywood the last several years. When, therefore, a film as charming and life affirming as STRANGER THAN FICTION comes along, it often gets lost in the shuffle, so to speak, and that was exactly the fate that befell the film when it opened theatrically in 2006. Now, however, the film can be treasured on DVD and I heartily recommend it as a sensational holiday film to be enjoyed by the whole family.
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