Stranger Than Fiction (2006) is one of the coolest films I've seen for a while. I think the idea for the film is just so good, it reminds me of The Truman Show but this one is definitely better. Stranger Than Fiction is about an ordinary man, Harold Crick. He is an IRS auditor who one day while brushing his teeth starts to hear a voice in his head narrating his life. Harold's life so far has been quite dull and lonely. He does the same things the same way every day but the narration starts to affect his entire life from his work, to his love-interests and to his death. I won't say anything else, everyone should watch it and see what happens!
This is the first scene of the film. Even after seeing these first few minutes I knew it was going to be brilliant. Harold likes to count a lot of things in his life, for example, brushing his teeth 38 times back and forth and 38 times up and down, he would run 57 steps per block for six blocks to catch the 8.17 bus to work and so on.. the graphics in this scene showing the things he counts etc. are great! They go with the scene and Harold's character so well.
Emma Thompson is great in it aswell.
Advanced Beauty is a website, an international collaboration, collecting some truly amazing digital artwork, or like they call it: video sound sculptures. They are inspired by synasthesia which is a rare sensory experience of seeing sound or tasting colours. All of them are absolutely stunning. The sounds and the visuals together make something so beautiful and different to what I have ever seen anywhere before! Magical.
More from Cardiff! We drove past a roundabout with these sculptures in the middle and I was hanging out from the car window trying to take a photo. There was an international competition to design sculpture for this important road junction at an entrance to a large residental area and the winner was Pierre Vivant. He designed these five huge geometric shapes constructed with aluminium frames and covered by traffic signs. When we drove past again at night the sculptures looked completely different, the car headlights make the fraffic signs light up and it looked quite beautiful. It's popularly known as 'the magic roundabout'. 
I didn't really have a good idea what this film was about until I just saw it and was blown away! I think it's more a film for adults than for children really. It gives a really awful picture of the future where the Earth is so covered with rubbish that people have to leave and are now living on a giant spaceship sitting around doing nothing and getting so fat and lazy they can't move.
