The value of a man's life

The perspective of life and risk has changed a lot in recent times and especially after the Mumbai attacks. We Indians are slowly waking to the fact that they will have to face people who are professionally trained in killing the innocent and creating panic. Blinded, brainwashed by false idealogies,such people no longer see the fact that no religion preaches killing in its name. In such times it was quite refreshing to watch a movie like 'Stranger than fiction' which talks about the value of a man's life more that anything.
In a strange setting befitting the name , the central character Harold Crick played by Will Farell in a non-comic non slapstick role is the life in question. An IRS officer and a creature of routine, times each part of his life including coffee breaks to the minute. Suddenly his life goes awry when he find himself hearing someeone narrating his life to him at each step disturbing his routine and eventually warning him of his impending death. As time runs out for Harold ,he finds love and discovers what living is . The final touch is of an author suffering from writer's block changing the ending of a seemingly perfect novel to save the value of a 'insignificant life'.