Sillier Than Fiction !

Rating: 2/10 (7 May 2008)

At first, it was the relationship between the writer and her written character; namely something that original, marvelous, and rich. Especially from the written character point of view as a creature who doesn't understand his own tortures, and tries to understand them with his self, life, fate. But what we saw was farther away anything good which you could've had from that.
Maybe it's the worst treatment to this ambitious idea. Or maybe it's, with its own defects, a less ambitious than the idea. For instance, how this writer got this supernatural capacity to control one's life or fate?, and how this written character in specific managed to communicate with this kind of goddess who controls all his life and death but not his will? So without any explanations, the movie's plot owns its rank as one of the most childish plots ever talked about such a relationship between a creator and the creator's creation, since Pygmalion!
Moreover, I hated that contact between the 2 lines which broke the symbolic case to reach a limit where (Will Ferrell)'s character was asked to die just to make one novel as good and successful?? And the weirder, or the sillier, that he agrees! Honestly, (Dustin Hoffman) and (Will Ferrell) looked so unbelievably idiotic at that scene: "You must die, so the novel can be whole and perfect!", and when (Ferrell) incomprehensibly surrenders, the novelist just saves him, and why? Because "The one who knows that he's going to die, and goes,.. deserves life"!! Surly that's the utmost degree of naivety I've ever seen dramatically and intellectually. Because the one who goes to die plainly like that is the one who deserves death indeed. But the one who "believes" in his fate - or the very one that the whole film is grounded on boosting him - is the one who really has faith in God, the ultimate power, not by any chance some depressed writer who loves to kill her characters just to empty her sadness. Otherwise, this is a really odious blasphemy. So as you see, it's bad both ways!
It's in this very brittle plot (particularly when you think did the writer's previous characters actually die before or not?!), and in that lousy basis in the first place (a writer's pen draws factual destinies of real people!). Therefore, the brilliant idea melted in the middle of this immature manipulation, and the story's good meanings become eventually incompatible: You must cherish your life which you'll live freely by your will. To activate your true selections, you must believe in fate that can select you in a higher will. You have to believe in higher will also to achieve its superior wisdom, and live for yourself and others (the lead saved his love from prison, then saved the boy from the bus). All of those meanings were so mixed up in so mixed up plot; hence the story's originality and sweetness were destroyed, especially with that fabricated happy ending too. It could be a perfect case of having a symbolic story where the symbol was bigger than its story, which lessened the persuasion and the amusement.
Despite the astonishing performance of (Will Ferrell), and some good points, it's a project of a different and well-meaning film that ended up weak and absurd.