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I might basically give away the best part of the movie, so don't read this if you plan on seeing the movie.
Please someone watch the movie so we can talk, its worth seeing I think.
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Stranger than Fiction was a very good movie. It basically made my heart / stomach turn to fire. I hated the ending, and want someone to explain to me why it happened that way. Basically, I need the director to come to school and explain why the hell it ended the way it did. That's besides the point. Here's how it relates to our class, or flips our class on its head:

Harold Craig becomes the antithesis of our class; he is the character of a novel who knows whats going to happen but has no control over it. He knows how the novel is made, what is going to happen, when its going to happen, but he cannot control it. Unlike most films, the characters have more knowledge over the plot than the audience does. It hurts to watch because they know something we don't, and we, the audience, most know everything.

That premise blows my mind. Maybe I am slightly eccentric and ridiculous, but the fact that the characters knew what was going to happen, and we didn't, and then acted it out is crazy. (Not to mention that it didn't even end up the way that Harold thought it would.) What I have to say can only be said and not written, so this might be complete rambling, but the movie reversed the typical power dynamics of audience, movie interaction that I am on the verge of hysteria.