Stranger Than Fiction

Life trully is stranger than fiction.
You never know what to expect, and those things that you do look forward to usually failed to be what they seemed.

That is how I felt watching Stranger Than Fiction. At first, it seemed like your usual commedy having Will Ferrell (Harold Crick) as the main hero. But then as the film progressed, I realized how beautiful this story was written. How the mundane became an adventure.

Just like how we take our everyday lives for granted, Harold, also swallowed his life unchewed. He attacked life as typical as how he solved math problems - void of emotion. He spent his days counting every single steps he made, calculating possible angles not realizing that all these are irrelevant compared to the amount of time lost when he could have simply lived.

On the other hand, the narrator also had her hands full. She goes about her everyday consuming her life just to create stories of how other characters' lives will end. Only to be enveloped by guilt when the character she was plotting on killing materialized before her.

So how will the story end? Like how all are supposed to end. Watch this film and see how your own life unfold before your eyes.

c/o: http://www.atomicmovies.com/movie-Stranger-Than-Fiction.html

Director: Marc Forster; Writer: Zach Helm ; Actor/s: Will Ferrell, Dustin Hoffman & Emma Thompson
Released: 2006; Saw: 2008

Titanic

Seated at the farthest left of the front row as the movie house was jam-packed by other people, we almost froze when it got to the iceberg scene. We saw this movie in Fiesta World Mall at the time when it was the only decent movie house in town. Needless to expound, the movie was great. In fact, my sister saw this movie a number of times that I lost count. With this movie, we – my dad, mom, siblings – learned a valuable lesson: under no circumstances should anyone be seated in the front row no matter how great the movie is.

Director: James Cameron; Writer: ; Actor/s: Leonardo DiCaprio & Kate Winslet

Released: 1998; Saw: 1998

Kinsey

Life and work of a psychologist named Alfred Kinsey. Saw this movie with JP Espi in Glorietta for our Genders class. It was a touching story about a man who revolutionized the way society measure, view, and treat sexuality and gender. Highly recommended.

The character was way beyond his time which created conflict in his life - worldly, emotionally, and academically. He dabbled in issues that other people did not even dare of entertaining in their minds but directly affected everyone's existence.

Director: Bill Condon; Writer: ; Actor/s: Liam Neeson

Released: 2004; Saw: 2006