Voices that Tell a Story

Rating: Null/10 (8 April 2010)

Imagine yourself hearing voices in your head, like your whole life is being narrated. Every step you take, how many times you brush your teeth, telling you how long it takes you to get ready, and also telling you that you are going to die. You know the tradition! At the end of every book or movie, something has to happen to the hero. Either he dies or gets injured. For author Karen Eiffel (Emma Thompson), she wasn't going to make Harold Crick's (Will Ferrell) life end pleasantly.
Harold Crick lived a normal life, until he had someone narrating him all the time. He would brush his teeth 35 times, up and down, and side to side. He would walk 20 steps in a nonchalant matter on his way to the bus stop. His life was living on a stopwatch. Without his stopwatch he wouldn't know what time to get up, how long it should take him to get ready, or how long his coffee break was going to be. Harold worked as IRS agent; he would be auditing people who didn't pay their taxes in a non-fiction like story.
Everyday of Harold's life he would hear a women's voice in his head narrating his life and what he all did, At the time he didn't know who the person was but, the person is Karen Eiffel. Karen Eiffel was a top author. Her books were always outstanding, because how she always ended the book. Karen Eiffel was known for the killer author. In every single book she wrote, the hero or the main character died. Turns out that Ms. Eiffel was really killing people. Every main character she wrote about was actually real people. Ms. Eiffel was starting a new book that was about the life of Harold Crick. She knew that her book was going to be a big hit, but she is forgetting the most important part of the book which is the ending. She didn't know how Harold Crick's life was going to end.
Once Harold figured that his whole life is being narrated he decided to go out of normal day routine. He stopped wearing a tie everyday to go to work, he didn't brush his teeth 36 times, and he walked to the bus instead of jogging. He also fell in love with Ana Pascal (Maggie Gyllenhaal) that he first was going to audit, but then he feel in love with her. Ms. Pascal owned a bakery that she would work at most of her life. When Harold got used to his new life, with this girlfriend, and not going to work all the time, and just living a normal life; then he found out that Ms. Eiffel was going to end his life.
Ms. Eiffel finally came up with the ending to her book, and that's when Harold Crick got the signal from Ms. Eiffel's voice that he had to find away to stay alive. Harold found away to contact to Ms. Eiffel and he actually got to talk to her face to face and he told her that he is real, and since he read the first draft of her book, Harold didn't want to spoil Ms. Eiffel success, he told Ms. Eiffel to continue the book and to go ahead and kill him. If she didn't her story wouldn't be popular, because in all of Ms. Eiffel's books someone dies. She started finishing the ending and Harold was at the bus stop waiting to go to work, until a boy road his bicycle in front of the bus and Harold pushed him out of the way and got hit by the bus. Ms. Eiffel's last sentence was that "Harold Crick was d".
Turns out that Harold Crick survived the crash all because of his watch. Parts of his watch went through his skin and help keep blood from rupturing. Which also means Ms. Eiffel's story didn't go the way it was planned but her book was still a big hit. Harold on the other hand will always have a piece of his watch with him in his body and now he'll know how he lived.