The Ability of an Omniscient Narrator

Avis 2022-04-21 09:01:34

An omniscient narrator controls everything. Everyone including the editor and director would admit it is not a good story. Because they already told you the truth of great works generating suffering as "the hero dies, and the story lives forever. " And this movie is a comedy, as the writer turns her tragic design into a lousy ending. Value prevails over arts.

But the movie gives us opportunities to think about several questions: If your life is a written book, will you still fight for something seemly impossible? Which one would you choose , to die nobly now or to live humbly for more years? Since you are going to die sooner or later, what should you do now?

It is creative and interesting to make a movie telling people what is literary narration, but the plot and characters could be more intricate and reliable.

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Extended Reading

Stranger Than Fiction quotes

  • [Harold is talking with a coworker, Dave, in the IRS archives]

    Harold Crick: Dave, I'm being followed.

    Dave: [looks around] How are you being followed? You're not moving.

    Harold Crick: It's by a voice.

    Dave: What?

    Dave: I'm being followed by a woman's voice.

    Dave: Okay. What is she saying?

    Harold Crick: She... She's narrating.

    Dave: Harold. You're standing at the water cooler? What is she narrating?

    Harold Crick: I... I had to stop filing. Watch. Listen, listen.

    Kay Eiffel: [as Harold resumes filing, Kay's voice is heard - but only to Harold] The sound the paper made against the folder had the same tone as a wave scraping against sand. And when Harold thought about it, he listened to enough waves every day to constitute what he imagined to be a deep and endless ocean...

  • [to Harold during their first meeting]

    Ana Pascal: Get bent, Tax Man!

    [gets everyone else in the bakery to boo Harold]