Stranger Than Fiction

Not originally on the list but every time I saw the advert for it there was an overwhelming desire to watch it and I didn't own it so now I do and it features here.

Not a Will Ferrell fan having previously stated that his only decent film was 'Blades of Glory' however, having watched this film, which also starts Emma Thompson, Maggie Gyllenhaall, Dustin Hoffman, Linda Hunt and Queen Latifa, I have to retract that statement and say that this is probably his best film.

With such a small cast and simple plot it is easy to watch this film and let the standout moments slip past you. For me the standout scene was when we first actually meet Emma Thompson in this film. It looks like she is standing on the edge of a building getting ready to kill herself but when you actually see the scene she is just standing in a very shiny white room. The point is that her artistic license is taking over and as she is trying to kill off the character in her novel we can see her actually exploring the methods of death available to her.

The entire point of this film is that a writer starts to realise that her characters are probably a real person making their way in the world, it's just that she doesn't know it. Once she meets one of her characters she starts to ask herself how many others has she killed? When we write we have no idea that we may actually be writing the life of someone else that we haven't met in the world yet, we don't give it a single moment of thought, we just write until we get a block. Upon realisation she knows that she has to change the ending, she can't kill this person because she has now met that person. How easy it is to kill someone that you don't know.

For writers or people with boring lives it's actually quite an interesting film to watch and it teaches you about living your life.