Movie Night

My husband and I are enjoying a rare weekend without the boys. My in-laws have spirited them away, and hubby and I are trying to use the time for all manner of things. Today was a frenzy of cleaning...bathrooms, the pantry and the refrigerator, plus some giftwrapping. And now writing...yay! I'm just taking a short break...a few minutes to blog about the movie we went to see last night.

We saw Stranger Than Fiction, and I must say I really liked it. On a whole lot of levels. I thought the premise was clever and the characters well written and well acted. But I particularly liked the idea that an author (played by Emma Thompson) had written a character that she then got to meet. Her reaction to meeting Harold Crick was perfect. She seemed to be thinking...'You're just like I imagined you'...'You're just like I created you'. How interesting would that be? To have one of your characters come to life...to see how well and how completely you'd created them?

Oh, and then at the very end, there was this line that I really, really liked.

'We must remember that all these things, the nuances, the anomalies, the subtleties that we assume only accessorize our days, are in fact here for a much larger and nobler cause. They are here to save our lives.'
- The Narrator in Stranger Than Fiction

So true. Go see the movie!