Topic 3 2
When I watched this film before, I watched with more for an entertainment purpose rather than in an analytical way. This time, when I viewed the film with the intent of writing a paper with it, I was able to understand so much more. I was much younger when I watched the film, and I simply did not have the thinking power to understand some of the elements in Stranger Than Fiction. I did not understand why Harold necessarily had to die, and I thought Karen Eiffel had known from the beginning she was going to kill a real person; I never really grasped the fact that she was talking about killing a fictional character and not a real person. Now, since I had only seen the movie once before, and I could not remember much of the movie itself, I thought the same thought at the beginning of the movie. However, I understood later on in the movie that Harold Crick needed to die in order to make the perfect story. I still did not believe it was a just cause for killing someone, but I understood what it meant. I also noticed Karen Eiffel did not mean to kill Harold Crick in real life; her character and his life were both simply tragic coincidences. Even though I have watched this movie before, I am glad I was able to watch this again because writing a paper on it would have been difficult whether I remembered much of it or not. Although I would not want to watch every movie with a critical thinking process, I enjoyed watching this movie analytically.