Stranger than fiction

The movie Stranger than fiction would benefit from being studied in relation with Crime and Punishment (which is mentionned in the Movie by Hoffman's caracter as he says to Farrel that he should read it before dying) - especially the part where the paper written by Raskolnikov is discussed. The man splits people in two categories : the great men who should not be astrained to the moral beliefs of the common ones, and rank higher what they believe is right for them, and thus for humanity; and of course, the normal people (us) who should know how to fade in front of the great ones and accept our sad destiny, be it to die at the hand of the great man, or crumble in front of his will.

What Hoffman is secretly saying, it seems, is that Farrel should accept his role of normal guy, dying at the end of the greater work of a superior writer. Of course, the writer character refuses this conclusion, rejecting also in a symbolic way the shadow of a Great Work written long ago, and the vision of the critic.

Not going any further in my suggestion. But a serious analysis there would, I think, say a lot about the movie.