Karen Eiffel creates novel characters and plots, and works have their own destiny.
The movie Stranger than Fiction, Chinese translation: Fantasy Life.
One night, I woke up from a coma and suddenly realized that I would die - this objective fact that cannot be changed. Thinking that the person I love will also die, my heart suddenly seemed to be drained of all power, and I imagined that the final truth of life was frozen. In a certain second of a certain day in the future, maybe it will be the old self, but this may still be a complete life, having experienced the hard work that life must go through, sitting on the top, quiet and dull. The most worrying thing is that I am afraid that life will fail me and I will not be able to give you a complete life, but how do we know that a complete life should be experienced only once to be considered complete? Maybe this video answers that question.
Karen Eiffel wants to arrange a death for Harold Crick in the novel, such a bland office worker, the probability of attracting danger is really small. He concentrates on measuring and calculating life, everyday, everything. "How can he die" became the biggest problem Karen Eiffel encountered in the creation.
In the movie Stranger than Fiction, the plot seems simple, but in fact it has many layers.
The real writer should be Karen Eiffel's sick look, completely disregarding herself, all energy is only devoted to the life of her characters, her life is no longer her own; the same is true of real virtual characters Fresh and vivid, they are clearly created and should have been designed, but they all have the ability to dominate their own destiny.
When Harold Crick learned from the professor that he had to die, he was full of resistance to fate, because the life he had just improved and the love he had just had was about to end because of death, and he refused to accept it. But, we look back and think, how did Harold Crick's life improve, how did Harold Crick get his love, and yes, when he knew he was going to die in the near future, he chose to change the original trajectory of his life, so he wanted Life comes as you wish. After Harold Crick read the entire novel, he calmly accepted the arrangement written by Karen Eiffel, and his death became meaningful, which is also the ending Karen Eiffel always thought of - it was tragic, but complete. Although, the novel ends with a comedy, this is not the result of the character's uprising, it is the writer's rethinking of the characters created by himself.
The movie Stranger than Fiction, I write, I live
If I were the creator, how would I arrange my characters? But he is clearly me.
There is also a possibility that I am a created character. There is a pen writing my life. I walk and have an oral tone.
If I were to die tomorrow, but I burned myself today, I did what I always wanted to do and didn't do.
Perhaps the film is telling us: in the face of death, death without regret is complete.
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