I first saw the poster of this movie while waiting for the train in the London Underground. At that time, I initially recognized its value and included it in the list of "must-see movies" without hesitation. One is because of its title, and the other is the poster. The main actors who were named on the show: Emma Thompson, Dustin Hoffman, Maggie Gyllenhaal, really can't help but watch it. In addition to the main actors (I am not familiar with them), when it comes to the aftermath of the viewing, the performance styles of these people are very unified, and they can all be described with the words "clean and happy". The outrageous development of the plot is completely hidden in their unabashed portrayal of ordinary little people. In the end, it is integrated into one, and the condensed performance instead highlights the fictional tension of the whole work.
"Stranger Than Fiction" has two Chinese translations - "Survival under the Pen" and "Fantasy". Enough to sum up what kind of movie this is: the former points out the main plot of the story, while the latter summarizes the overall style of the film. Stranger than fiction, literally translated: more outrageous than fiction. Just looking at such a title, it is full of the kind of movie taste I like: the "real life" in which each of us is involved becomes the material of a story, as for the combination method of the story, the more imaginative it is, the more wonderful and exciting The spark of wisdom unique to "creation" shines on the ground.
The wonderful thing about this movie is that in the process of making up a story, the movie is also high in the sky in the creation process of a novel. If you haven't seen the movie, please steer clear of my explanation below:
A) Female writer Karen Eiffel is working on a novel about the death of a tax collector - based on reality
B) The novel " The storyline that is constantly being created in The Death of the Taxman - the fictional process of the novel
C) Harold Crick is a taxman with extreme laws (stereotype) - based on reality
D) Harold's routine comes to a sudden stop on a Wednesday morning when he begins to hear a woman's voice (Karen Eiffel) - recounting every standard action of his life in a "narrative" tone, even And hit the next moment in his life ahead of time. Harold was terrified and found a literature professor who wanted to change his life from the perspective of literary creation, in order to get rid of the control of his own destiny by the voice of the narrator - the process of film fiction in
short, in "Stranger than Fiction", On the one hand, life is overlooked by literature, and literature is overlooked by film; I think the idea of the script for this movie is really good.
So, I found the name of the script writer from IMDB: Zach Helm, born in Southern California in 1975, has only written three scripts in his life, but just completed his first film as a director. Life... This kid is clearly taking the golden inspiration from the script of "Stranger Than Fiction" that made his initial success today - when he was 32 years old. (Writing like this, I actually want to inspire a lot of people~^^)
The "art" part of the film is also worth mentioning - all landscapes (people, interiors, streets...) focus on monochromatic colors (gray and On the surface, it is obvious that this is the basic color system of Harold's real life, but let's take a deeper look at the director's intention, just like the magic effect of the actor's performance - the more the surface is convergent, the more obvious it is. The ironic tension of reality, so the visual tone of the film is also well subordinate to this expressive clever design. There is also an interesting "little point", when Harold's life gradually unfolded a new side (playing the piano, falling in love, no longer counting all kinds of boring digital details in life, constantly saving himself from the writer's pen), when he appeared again that day At the office, Harold was wearing a red sweater!
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