Friday, January 15, 2010

Stranger Than Fiction and Magritte





I find it impossible to ignore the similarities between Harold Crick's alternate reality and that of the great surrealist Rene Magritte. What a fitting combination, too; why NOT pay homage to some of the most bizarre mise-en-scenes this side of Dali when you're directing a mainstream film that also manages to respect the viewer's comprehension of the strange?

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