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Kristy 2022-03-19 09:01:03

1. The first half is obviously better than the second half.
2. The ending turns to the American spirit again. Ugh.
3. At the 83rd minute, Dustin Hoffman persuaded, although the suspense was laid, the overall structure began to become strange. The film also began to move towards conceptualization—the subject for the subject, the spirit for the spirit.
4. Will Ferrell walks out of Queen Latifah's dessert shop and says, "I think I'm in a tragedy." Oh, this sentence really brings tears to my eyes.
5. I like the tone of this film. Emma's smoking posture reminds me of the cowardly look on the first day I quit smoking. And her manic slap on the typewriter...

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Stranger Than Fiction quotes

  • Penny Escher: [sitting on bench under an umbrella] May I ask what we're doing out here?

    Kay Eiffel: [sitting next to Penny without an umbrella] We're imagining car wrecks.

    Penny Escher: I see. And we can't imagine car wrecks inside?

    Kay Eiffel: No. Did you know that 41 percent of accidents occur in times of inclement weather?

    Penny Escher: So do 90 percent of pneumonia cases.

    Kay Eiffel: Really? Pneumonia. That's an interesting way to die. But how would Harold catch pneumonia?

    Penny Escher: Have you written anything new today?

    Kay Eiffel: No.

    Penny Escher: Did you read the poems I suggested, or make a list of words, buy new typing paper, anything?

    Kay Eiffel: No, none of it.

    Penny Escher: Sitting in the rain won't write books.

  • Kay Eiffel: What's this?

    Penny Escher: It's literature on the nicotine patch.

    Kay Eiffel: I don't need a nicotine patch, Penny. I smoke cigarettes.

    Penny Escher: Well, it may help.

    Kay Eiffel: May help? Help what? Help what, Penny? Help write a novel?

    Penny Escher: May help save your life.

    Kay Eiffel: I'm not in the business of saving lives.

    [spits into tissue to Penny's disgust, and puts cigarette in tissue]

    Kay Eiffel: In fact, just the opposite.

    [wipes water out of eye]