Stranger than Fiction

Stranger Than Fiction - The Whole Wide World
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STRANGER THAN FICTION

The scene takes place in a flat. It's probably the morning because the sky is faintly lite and a man is in his bedroom, he looks sleepy. At quarter past seven, an alarm clock rings and the man stops it. Then, he wakes up and goes to the bathroom to brush his teeth. This man is Harold Crick, and he is a IRS agent, or a "Taxman". So, when he brushing his teeth, he counts every brushes strokes: thirty-eight times back and forth, thirty-eight times up and down.

After, Harold wears formal clothes and goes to work by bus. As he is "addicted" to numbers, his friends ask him for infite numbers and endless calculations.

But Harold, who is remarkably few words, lives alone, takes his dinner alone and sleeps alone ...

Once, a Friday, as he was brushing his teeth, he hears a narrator's voice. This voice was describing all Harold's actions, Harold's habits ... And this voice tells to Harold he gonna die.

Then, Harold wants one thing: find this woman who tell he will be die.

Video: Harold plays "Whole Wild World"