Movie Review Haiku and More
Stranger than Fiction
Was a literary treat
Hoffman! Nice surprise.
I was puzzling over the tendency I’ve had to refer to this film by the name of another, For Your Consideration. I’ve done it in my head and embarrassingly out loud now, more than once, without even realizing I’m saying it.
Suddenly, I know why. It’s because I’m a writer and for writers of fiction (stranger than or otherwise normal) the most frightening part (for me, anyway) is the construction of the Query Letter, and what phrase do I connect with this process, it’s pain, suffering and bloodshed (paper cuts?) . . . for your consideration. Yep.
By the way, neither one a horror flick; comedies, rather. I haven’t seen For Your Consideration and at this rate, why bother, it will only confuse me further. It’s yet another of those Christopher Guest (Nigel Tufnel, “this one goes to 11″)films that are funny, but really, I think I’ve had enough.
Finally, this film, Stranger than Fiction, earns the Greg Seal of Approval and Thumbs Up as a Non Chick Flick. Really. Even though there are a few nude men in it, in, as I explained to the girl, a totally nonsexual context as they are in a locker room, in the background showering. Quite normal, actually.
Why is it that when I’m influenced by British voices I write with a British accent? Emma Thompson is a delight as the anguished blocked writer Karen Eiffel. Her quirky habit of snuffing half smoked cigarettes in spit-dampened tissues made me love her all the more.
Finally, I must mention that I’m ever so proud of my parents who have at last become Netflix users! Brilliant, folks!
Cheerio!