I have to agree with the title, life is certainly stranger than fiction as we see in the life of Harold Crick. At the same time its ironic because Harold Crick is actually fictional. Ultimately it is the director of the movie that determines Harold's fate, not Karin Eiffel..... metafiction?
Stranger than Fiction fits a postmodern worldview in its view of the controller of the universe. Karin Eiffel not only narrates Harold's life, but controls it when she types her book. She is detached from him and sees him as a character whose imminent doom she plots. Harold cannot make sense of what is going on when he hears her narration and tries to figure it out. When he finally reaches an answer all that he is given is news of his upcoming death. This spurs him to pursue all his dreams in a short time. This is postmodern because it is saying that we don't know what are fate is or if anyone's controlling it or if they will do with it so we might as well make the most of everyday and make our lives what we want them to be because all we know is that eventually we will die.
I definitley enjoyed watching this movie more with an AP English audience. One thing still is fuzzy to me though, why didn't he notice the voice earlier in his life?
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Interesting question. Perhaps because until the beginning of the movie, there had been no foreshadowing of his death. Or maybe those words were the first words of the novel - much like R&G being called into existence as adults b/c that's when the story began.
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