Stranger than Fiction

I saw Stranger than Fiction with my friends yesterday. And it was a pretty good movie. I mentioned that it was kind of like Little Miss Sunshine. I don't know how to describe it, but I'm feeling a little better about American cinema. I feel like there's a birth of a new genre. I described it as "magical realism" (which is a wrong use of a literary term), but its more like these movies are embracing reality-the quirks, the mundane, the special, all of it- and making "normal" magical. Without tricks and gimmicks. And in this way- I think that there's a return to movies as escapism and its escapism in everyday life. Maybe I'm getting too ahead of myself, but I don't know- sometimes American movies (most, not all) are "too"- too much, too glittery, too in your face. I hope this is the beginning of a trend.

And in a sidenote, I do like Will Ferrell as an actor. But not for his well-known comedic movies like Old School and Elf. I like him when he is playing the everyman (that everyman of course being the white american playing into the dominant ideology of American= white, but that's another post).