Good Movie

So, Kol and I got to curl up on the couch and watch a movie last night. Its the first for awhile, and while I usually will watch romantic comedies and whatnot with her because its on, this particular movie was a treat to have shared with me. I wasn't feeling that well, but I actually didn't notice it during the show. "Stranger Than Fiction" falls into one of those categories with the "Truman Show", "40 Year Old Virgin", and "Eternal Sunshine". Its an existential comedy/slice of life story of a man who discovers that his life is being narrated by an author that has no idea that her muse is a living person. Like Steve Carell in "40 Year Old Virgin" Harold Crick is a sad man, leading a formulaic life by the numbers as an IRS auditor. Hated by everyone and imprisoned by work that will never be done, nor get any thanks, he trudges (to trudge, the slow weary depressing yet determined walk of a man who has nothing left in his life except the impulse to simply soldier on) on through his daily routine.
The characterization was believable, and there were some dark moments in here if you look for them, such as the literary theory prof. (Dustin Hoffman) that thinks the ending of the manuscript should stay as it is merely for the sake of its poignancy and its perceived future place in the genre of American fiction and Karen Eiffel's 'method' writing technique of observing situations to get ideas for her books ending are both neurotic and self serving enough to be believable. All in all a pretty good first outing for a fledgling director.