Voice In Stranger Than Fiction

Have you ever had someone tell you that you can change your fate? Director Marc Forster disagrees with that statement. In his film Stranger Than Fiction, starring Will Ferrell, shows the story of an average, everyday white-collar audit, named Harold Crick, trying to make sense of the narrating voice in his head. Forster’s clever integration of setting, sound, and camera angle to show that one's fate can not be controlled, but they can control how they react to it. The first technique i chose was setting. In the film, one of the settings was Harold waiting for the bus on a very busy street. While he was waiting a boy on his bike fell into the busy street; this caused a panic of the people at the bus station. Harold knew he was going to die so he risked his life to save the boy that had fallen by picking him off the street as the bus came. He did not try to control his fate, he just accepted the fact that he was going to die.
In the beginning of the film while Harold was getting ready for his job there was a voice narrating everyone of his move. For example, as Harold is brushing his teeth, he is being narrated by a voice. As the voice continues to talk, it demonstrates Harold’s fate by saying every little thing he does. Another example of sound is when the music suddenly stops when Harold gives the story of his life to the English professor and he drops it on the floor next to him. The director chose to stop the music as it hit the ground because it gave a dramatic effect, showing Harold that he can not control what happens. As Harold walks away from the professor he realises there is nothing to do to stop himself from his inevitable death that fate has planned for