Stranger Than Fiction

Our Life As Fiction and Stranger Than Fiction.
He's a fictional character in real life. So are we. Professor Hilbert is tries to get Harold Crick to figure out what kind of story he's in and Dr. Sexson wants us to do the same. We're all part of a story, characters in each others lives.

Stranger Than Fiction and Beckett.
The number of characters killed was striking to me. Eight by Karen Eiffel and the same by Beckett. The idea that Stranger Than Fiction summons up is that our lives are stories. The movie is all about breaking through stories. If it was a normal movie about Harold Crick going through his life and then dying, or living, it would be a normal movie. But continually throughout, the character tries to break through to the narrator, author or real world. He is real to himself but to Karen he is just a character. The same way that you're all real to me but if you told me a story about one of your friends they're just a character in a story. One day they might break through from the story into the real world for me but until I meet them they're stuck in a that tale I was told. Beckett continually tries to break through his stories to show us the machinery behind it as well. We see the writers tricks he uses but have we yet thought about how we are really all stories until we are physically present to the people who've heard about us? Like being an urban legend where people tell stories about you that spread like wildfire but only a very few people actually know you. Now it's not what story are you in from the grand scheme of your life but what stories are you in in your every day life. What novellas or shorts? What poems, riddles, bedtime stories or warning parables are you in? What is your life as fiction?