Sunday, January 07, 2007

电影 Stranger than Fiction

This is a story about a man named Harold Crick and his wristwatch. In her story.

Hmmm...

Or rather, Harold's life is in the hands and under the pen of severely deranged and writer-blocked author Kay. Ouch.

Imagine that, you are powerless about your own life, and everything you do, learn, feel, behave, say, breathe and etc, is controlled by an unknown power, that annoyingly narrates to you from an elevated angle, over and over about what you are doing at the very instant. Freaky, eh?


p/s 1 - look at the banner over the shop window and read it aloud to yourself now.



And when Harold meets the smart, intelligent, rebellious, tax-evading, pretty, tattoo-adorned, loud-mouth and completely irresistable Ana, a wonderful baking girl with a gorgeous cafe of a bakery, Love happens...

"It feels as natural as milk and cookies"


But as the tragic hero realises his ultimate fate, what is to become of him? What would you do, if you only have less than 1 day to live, know you will die, and the way you die from the person who simply decided that you have to. Would you face it bravely or would you run away?

Examine your own life now. Are you simply living it the way that the tide is moving up and down the shoreline, and the sun and moon switch places in the sky?
Or, perhaps, you should live it like the wind changes and the comets fall ablaze?


p/s 2 - these are not lines from the movie. Please read them and understand them

Have you ever tried sitting on a bus service and not getting off, watching the scenary, breathing the air breeze, reading your favourite from cover to cover and looking at the people you normally wouldn't raise your eyes at?

Have you ever tried to walk to the places that you've always wanted to visit but never went, and treating the visit like you will never be able to come back again?

Stranger Than Fiction is this little gem of a small movie that will make you investigate your own life that you are living in right now. And, its time for a change. Because, change in life, will not make you strange, but keeps you alive and not to live it any less different or similar, and fully worthwhile.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

From the moment we are born (to this mortal society), we are to abide to the regulations of being matriculated.

Matriculation may be an efficient way to manage human resources but have we not, conclusively been held by 'the system'?

Ending at p/s 2, while investigating my life, perhaps I can let my life evolve beyond the boundaries of this 'fictional dimension' (of regularities, materials, etc) that I am seemingly encased in.

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