Stranger Than Fiction
I actually enjoyed this film. At the beginning, I enjoyed how Harold was so different in his set ways and he didn’t even really seem to know it. You wouldn’t have been able to tell it if you had seen him on the street yourself. It made me wonder if there really were many people like Harold with such obsessive compulsive habits who really aren’t obsessive compulsive.
I also liked the fact that Anna Pascal was so opposite of Harold in her free spirited ways. He was the tax auditor, and she was the woman who stood up for what she believed in by not paying a portion of her taxes. On paper, they seem like they would be a terrible couple. Harold’s job was to make sure that everyone gave what they owed to the government, and Anna’s job was to give all that she could back to the people to bring them a little bit of comfort. However, in the film, it seemed that they complimented each other quite well.
I thought that it was interesting that Harold said that he did not like cookies, but when he tried the cookies that Anna made for him at the end of his hard day his life began to turn around. It seemed to me that the better his life was going, the more cookies he was eating. I also thought it was interesting that Harold kept up with his ways (counting toothbrush strokes, counting steps, living by his watch, etc.), until he was certain that he was going to die.
I also liked the fact that Anna Pascal was so opposite of Harold in her free spirited ways. He was the tax auditor, and she was the woman who stood up for what she believed in by not paying a portion of her taxes. On paper, they seem like they would be a terrible couple. Harold’s job was to make sure that everyone gave what they owed to the government, and Anna’s job was to give all that she could back to the people to bring them a little bit of comfort. However, in the film, it seemed that they complimented each other quite well.
I thought that it was interesting that Harold said that he did not like cookies, but when he tried the cookies that Anna made for him at the end of his hard day his life began to turn around. It seemed to me that the better his life was going, the more cookies he was eating. I also thought it was interesting that Harold kept up with his ways (counting toothbrush strokes, counting steps, living by his watch, etc.), until he was certain that he was going to die.