Another Stranger than Fiction Blog

[ihatetroyduffy]

One of the many messages I've found in Stranger than Fiction is that change is necessary in one's life. Some of the main characters go through some amount of change. With Harold, it's obvious: he starts to change his life as according to his unrealized desires, filling it with (some of) the things that were previously missing, such as love, music,

Comments

[crystalleebell]

I agree with you about the movie's message about change being necessary in a person's life. I feel the same about most of the characters too. It does seem that they all make some sort of change except for the Professor. The fact that he didn't love the new ending of the book in order to save a man's life shows that he is still the same arrogant person.

By the way, Happy Birthday - Have a great day!

[ihatetroyduffy]

Thanks for the birthday wish. I wouldn't call it a great day, but it was a pretty good one. It's also kinda' fun to be able to go into restaurants and be able to order something with alcohol. :P

[andrewy1]

I think all the characters in this movie had a major change to their lives, all pointing the right directions in life.

[rshofner1]

I agree. I think Ana changed, or it was leading to her change, at the end of the movie when Harold was saying he needed to keep her out of jail. I think that was her begining to accept the tax situation.

[laxguru92]

I'll have to agree with you about the Professor as well. Even though we discussed him having a change in class, I didn't see it during the moving. If he did change at all, in my opinion, it was the least out of the four characters. Happy Writing!

[ihatetroyduffy]

My thing about Ana changing is that we didn't really get to know about her before the film, aside from her Harvard experience. With Harold, we get the feeling that he has lived his life that way for a good amount of time. With Karen, we get a bit of her history through the interview and through Professor Hilbert. And with Penny, she basically introduces herself by letting Karen know how she has never been late or asked for more time, etc. So when it comes to Ana, it's not as if she comes to accept that she will be taxed and audited if she doesn't pay in full. She doesn't come to accept the IRS through accepting Harold. So I'd say her change is much less important than the rest of the characters' changes.