I remember seeing the trailers for this one and when I learned it was about a guy who finds himself in the midst of a story and he had to track down the writer of that story before she kills him, I was hooked. It went right to my "must see" list. Right about now, you must be saying, "how can it be on your must see list if you're only just seeing it. It came out on video a few weeks ago." Well, I saw it a few weeks ago, and I'm behind. Sorry.
The gist of the film is you have a guy whose life is so ordered, he does everything exactly the same way every single day right down to the number of brush strokes on his teeth and the number of steps he takes to the bus stop. All this changes when he starts hearing a woman's voice in his head narrating his life. He is confused and finds this voice knows more about his life than he does and tells about it with a better vocabulary than he possesses. Once he knows the voice knows what it is talking about, she tells hm he is going to die soon. This gets his attention.
The writer behind all this is one with writer's block. She has been working on this novel for ten years and can't bring herself to finish it. She intends to kill her main character, but cannot come up with a clever or reasonable way to do it. This leads her publisher to send her an assistant to get her on track and lead her to finish her novel.
This is a very funny, serious, and moving film that really defies genre placement beyond just drama. The characters are very believable and the plot both real and fantasical. When we reach our inevitable end, we know our main character of Harold Krick so well that we love and respect him like he does actually exist. He is surrounded by a small set of supporting characters who only serve to define him more clearly and more completely...we even seem to have a wristwatch with personality.
This is an incredible film and places itself among some of the best I've seen. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
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