"Really, pneumonia? That's an interesting way to die"

Rating: 10/10 (21 September 2007)

I need to tell something, it's kind of a confession. Last week I was looking at my IMDb film history and as I realized that 7 out of ten movies that I been watching were from the US, I decided i would't rent any more American movies from a month. Thank god I didn't keep my promise!. This movie is fantastic in many levels. The scrip is a filled with black humor, drama, romance, full-colored characters. It's an impossible story, and yet it seems as it could happen. The people in it is very real. You get to love this characters, you want them to live a good life. It tells such a complete story that you feel as if you've read the book that's been being written in front of us. What can I say about the actors? Will Ferrel is the main reason why I watched this movie. I was sure he would suck. I'm an idiot. He gave so many interesting things to Harold Crick. he is a totally believable shy guy, not the stupid person that movies usually show us as a shy guy. He lives a boring life, yet he is not boring, he is funny, and sweet and real. Emma Thompson is one of the greater living actress in the world. And I thing this is one of her best works. She is living her book, suffering, trying to kill smartly, and that seems hard. Dustin Hoffman also seems to be Tailor made to play the professor. The scrip provides some of the more real and profound characters I didn't like the previous Marc Foster movie, but hats off, he can tell a bittersweet story in a subtle way, using some original techniques, but all in favor of the story, and not to show the viewer that he is a great director. He prove me wrong, let's hope he keeps the good work American cinema has seen in a long time, and probe me that i have to continue criticizing USA cinema, so that once in a while I get to see one of this gems.