Stranger than Fiction

[mmaestro]

Had a good weekend. Bethany and I are now left wondering, however, whether there shouldn't be another accepted genre of movies out there. Because we went to see Stranger than Fiction on Saturday night. It's an odd movie. Will Ferrell plays a man who starts hearing a voice narrating his life, and begins to realise that he's a character in a novel.

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other movies that belong in that bracket

[sparkofcreation]

Eternal Sunshine..., Pleasantville, Sliding Doors, Twice Upon a Yesterday...

And books: Sophie's World, The Years of Rice and Salt, Somewhere in Time...

Now, someone help us come up with a name for the genre!

Re: other movies that belong in that bracket

[itchyfidget]

Dramedy? Comerama?

Re: other movies that belong in that bracket

[sparkofcreation]

I've heard "dramedy" used before, but to me there's also the requirement (which Gareth might not share) that there be an element of magical realism/alternate reality. Maybe we should call it "magical realism" and be done with it, but to me the term is inextricably linked to mid-to-late-20th-century Latin America.

Re: other movies that belong in that bracket

[mmaestro]

I still haven't actually read Sophie's World, but I'd heard the premise, and at least the existentialism angle fits in rather well with Stranger Than Fiction, even if the eventual aims of the book are slightly different.