Stranger Than Fiction #2
As I prepared to write my journal entry this week I was trying to think about what else I could write about from the movie Stranger Than Fiction. I felt like from all the papers we wrote, and are writing, that I’ve pretty much covered everything that interested me and would probably just be repeating myself on here. I then, however, read chapter two in our English book. What I got out of chapter two is the way you need to think about reading and writing. I’ve watched Stranger Than Fiction a few times in order to grasp different concepts and write better papers, but after reading chapter two I realized I still may not be capturing everything that the reader is intended to capture.
There are so many different ways for one to interpret the movie Stranger Than Fiction. Like the chocolate chip cookies, for example, can either be a symbol of compassion and/or acceptance. When I first watched the movie I saw the cookies as just cookies. After watching it again and discussing it in class I now see how they can mean multiple things. Everyone walks away with a different concept from this movie and this particular scene in general. Did the cookies lead the path to saving the little boy’s life at the end? It’s a possibility. The scene when Ana tried to give Harold the cookies I personally think was the beginning of him opening up and becoming a different version of himself. Or the cookies could have simply been a peace offering. She was basically fighting him on the tax issue and she could have tried to give him the cookies to let him know it was not technically Harold she hated, but the IRS in general.
After reading chapter two from my English book I think I’ll watch the movie one more time and do a specific outline of notes like they show in the book and try to see if I can program my mind to think the way you are supposed to think when evaluating a book or film.