Stranger than Fiction

I thoroughly enjoyed watching Stranger than Fiction with Will Ferrell for the past three days. If I recall correctly, I saw part of the film on an airplane a few years ago. I'd never actually watched the whole thing, though, and so it was a real treat.

The postmodern aspects were very noticable and funny too.
Here were my favorite pomo aspects:

Metafiction: The story was full of metafiction with Harold the character actually communicating with the author, and changing the ending of the story because of it.

Truth/Humanity: There was absolute truth for Harold Crick; it was the author writing his story. Yet it only affected him (maybe the kid on the bicycle and the baker as well), and he was able to change his absolute truth in the end, making it not so absolute. Furthermore, the narrator was not the highest authority. Specifically, she had the publishers pressing her to finish writing the book, but more generally she had fate or chance ruling over her (while she was ruling over Harold). The fate/chance aspect is that Harold is alive, hears the narrator's voice, and eventually seeks her out. Therefore, while it looks like there is some sort of absolute truth, there really is not, and we have little to no control over our future.

Wristwatch: I found it very interesting/entertaining that the main character and the hero of the story were different entirely. The protagonist of the story was Harold Crick, but the hero was the wristwatch. It kept trying to warn Harold or tell him something, and ultimately it gave itself up to save him. The opening line of the movie says something like: "This is a story of a man and his wristwatch." It is given a special emphasis at the beginning, but I just considered it odd. However, the watch turned out to be the pivotal connector and the driving force of the movie's plot.

All in all - great movie.