Literary Cinema
Jan. 13th, 2007 03:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eumeliaYesterday I saw one of the most beautiful movies I'd seen in almost two years.
Stranger Than Fiction is a work of cinematic art.
The music, the editing, the writing, the acting were all amazing and the premise of the movie is absolutely genius.
It's difficult to pinpoint exactly what it is that made the movie such a thing of beauty; if it was the numerous literary allusions going on throughout the picture, the subtle philosophical musings going on the screen, the conflicts the hero and the narrator go though while trying to create a life that would satisfy their own needs and ambitions.
The fact that it was intelligent, moving and didn't spoon feed the audience the ideas of the movie but wanted the people watching to experience it as what it is... a cinematic experience.
I'd never seen Will Farrel act in something like this, he isn't normally the "straight man" and to see him, be this gray, drab character that via an idea which would get anyone put onto medication or an asylum decides to change his life and becomes proactive, that the Plot in his life, despite being written is actually his own, was wonderful and Will Farrel acted so superbly, so subtly that you get completely lost in his character. h
Harold Crick is the perfect everyman and his metamorphoses accentuates the quirkiness of all the other characters around him, he becomes the man he always wanted to be and does what he always wanted, with the knowledge that this is all being ordained from above... with a twist.
The acting of Emma Thompson, Dustin Hoffman and Maggie Gyllenhaal were excellent, subtly and beautiful, it was real people up there on the screen and you could see this life happen to anyone.
Go see it.
See it now!
Stranger Than Fiction is a work of cinematic art.
The music, the editing, the writing, the acting were all amazing and the premise of the movie is absolutely genius.
It's difficult to pinpoint exactly what it is that made the movie such a thing of beauty; if it was the numerous literary allusions going on throughout the picture, the subtle philosophical musings going on the screen, the conflicts the hero and the narrator go though while trying to create a life that would satisfy their own needs and ambitions.
The fact that it was intelligent, moving and didn't spoon feed the audience the ideas of the movie but wanted the people watching to experience it as what it is... a cinematic experience.
I'd never seen Will Farrel act in something like this, he isn't normally the "straight man" and to see him, be this gray, drab character that via an idea which would get anyone put onto medication or an asylum decides to change his life and becomes proactive, that the Plot in his life, despite being written is actually his own, was wonderful and Will Farrel acted so superbly, so subtly that you get completely lost in his character. h
Harold Crick is the perfect everyman and his metamorphoses accentuates the quirkiness of all the other characters around him, he becomes the man he always wanted to be and does what he always wanted, with the knowledge that this is all being ordained from above... with a twist.
The acting of Emma Thompson, Dustin Hoffman and Maggie Gyllenhaal were excellent, subtly and beautiful, it was real people up there on the screen and you could see this life happen to anyone.
Go see it.
See it now!
