Who Is Harold Crick Real In Other Than Fiction

We hide ourselves behind the tedious colours, hoping that no one's notices us, hiding our extraordinary selves behind the perfectly rectangular buildings. In Stranger than Fiction, we see a man named Harold Crick, whose life was summarized as “... a man with infinite numbers, endless calculations and remarkably few words”, who is ordered and routined but failing to realize the small moments or ideas might lead to our contented moments. The dreams created when the characters are young, do not have a time limit but growing up they tend to forget but it is the choices they make that determines if these dreams will be their reality. In the movie, Marc Forster used Karen Eiffel a struggling author to narrate Harold Crick's life, where we then see …show more content…
Harold epiphany was that he was not living his content life and by just taking a break from his constructed routine, could lead to something more imperative. For Harold this meant living a fulfilled life which consisted of Ana, playing the guitar and eating gooey cookies. From doing these simple changes, there is shift a in Harold, in how the mood gets happier and there is more colours and round shapes surrounded from him. Ana was the one who showed Harold these round shapes which represented warmth and comfort. Shown how the director put Ana in a circle view, to show the kindness and courage she brought to Harold. Also when Ana gave Harold cookies as a sign of solicitude and nurturing which was something that Harold did not have as he said “My mother didn't bake, the cookies I ever had were store bought”. Though the cookies were just a simple gesture, the sound of Harold eating the cookie and the close up of his facial expression showed the hospitality it gave him, which lifted his mood after a long awful day. Ana brought out the courage side of Harold as he said “Ms.Pascal, I’ve been odd and I know that I have been odd and I want you”. The guitar was also another example when Karen said “ Here Harold stood face to face with his oldest desire” showing that he finally doing something he always wanted. The shift as Karen says “He became stronger in who he was, in what he …show more content…
These limitations are her writer's block and finding a tragedy for her book. This lifestyle lead her to a chaotic life. From Karen's setting, her apartment is all white and no colour, which represents her mind in how it is blank because she can not find an ending for Harold as she says “I can't simply throw Harold Wick out of a building”. This leads her to her constricted life in how she has pressure about finding a good tragedy. When Karen writes her stories, the ending is always the most significant, as the hero always dies. She had her epiphany when she realized that Harold Crick is alive. Through her realization she is stuck with this choice of whether she should kill Harold Crick or not. From this decision she has her epiphany that “It's about a book about a man who doesn't know he's about to die and then dies but if the man does know he's going to die and dies anyway, dies willing knowing he could stop it them I mean is not that the type of man you want to keep alive”. Karens shift at the end in how when she entered the professor room her background was colorful, with books turned in different ways, showing when she said “You I think I’m fine with okay”, indicating her change in her ideas and perspective. Though Karen did not get an astounding ending, she got to understand that even though people tend to lose themselves, their stories do not have