Stranger Than Fiction: A Movie Review
Image via WikipediaFinally, a movie worth going to the theaters to go see! Maybe it’s just me, but lately the movies being shown in the theaters have looked total crap. The last movie that I REALLY wanted to see (but unfortanately missed) was Little Miss Sunshine.
Stranger Than Fiction follows Harold Crick, an auditor for the IRS who leads a perfectly boring, and borderline obsessive-compulsive life. Every day is the same, down to the way he brushes his teeth, to the amount of steps it takes him to get to the bus every morning. Then, one day he starts hearing a voice. Not the type of voice that tells him to go on a murdering rampage or anything like that, but rather, a narration of his life. And unnervingly, the voice indicates that Harold Crick was heading towards an imminent death, which then leads Crick on a mission to try to stop his death.
I can’t say enough good things about this movie. It is funny, but not at all goofy, more like a quirky, understated, almost dark but not quite humor. Farrell’s character reminded me of Jim Carey’s role in Eternal Sunshine for a Spotless Mind though, towards the end Farrell let his normal goofiness show through the otherwise stuffy (yet likable) character. There were several really touching moments in this movie, especially near the end. The characters were genuine and the only actress that I thought was out of place was Queen Latifah, but she was okay…though if kind of felt as though she was only in the movie to fill in a certain quota (if you catch my drift). I loved the plot, it was really interesting and unique and though inside that plot the subplots were sort of overdone, they fit well in the main plot and really made sense. Oh, and I loved the soundtrack.
