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Stranger than Fiction is a strange movie
indeed. The story centers around the IRS auditor Harold Crick
who all of a sudden, in his structured and boring life, begins
to hear a narrative voice. The voice narrates his life as it
happens and only he can hear it. It turns out that it is
actually a writer that is writing a book about Harold. Until now
they don't know of each others existence and much of the movie
is about Harold trying to find out who the author is by the help
of a literature professor. He does this because the narrative
voice one day said that Harold was going to die.
The circumstances leads Harold to change his compulsory
obsessive life and actually get a real life. Much of this is
because of a woman whose taxes he is auditing, and who he later
falls in love with.
The story was pretty interesting but at times it was hard to
tell the narrative voice that Harold hears from the narrative
voice of the actual movie. Well it wasn't hard to tell the
difference since one is a woman and the other is a man, but at
times you forget that one is a voice that only Harold hears and
that it isn't just intended for the movie audience.
I think this is a movie that would do better as a book and
after a while I just wanted it to get to the ending. That said,
I couldn't leave it, I had to know how it ended.
I give this 5+ out of 10.
5+/10
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