Will Ferrell’s soulful and understated dramatic performance in 2006’s Stranger Than Fiction should have opened more doors for the actor.
Will Ferrell’s soulful and understated dramatic performance in 2006’s Stranger Than Fiction should have opened more doors for the actor.
I haven’t seen it since it was in theaters, but I remember feeling the ending cheapened it for me.
That’s kinda the point. Rather than go with the ending that was right for the story she sacrificed the right ending for happiness. It’s fucking beautiful. I love it so much.
No, that’s not what I’m talking about. Spoilers ahead: The narrator says he’s going to die. So this impending death is constantly looming. Then he technically dies because he was clinically dead for a second. It’s a total cop out.
It’s meant to be a cop out! It’s meant to cheapen the story. That’s the point! If he died it would have been a story that was powerful and evoked all of this feeling, but she couldn’t do it to him so she sacrificed the quality of the story to give him a happy ending. It’s supposed to make the audience feel kinda cheated.