The film, "Stranger Than Fiction," is an excellent movie in dealing with the stages of the Hero's Journey. The use of imagery is also often used to illustrate the theme. The main character Harold Crick (Will Ferrell) commences on a journey of self-exploration and struggles to find balance. With his presumptuous lifestyle, Harold begins to realize the inner conflict that plagues him. Throughout the film, Harold's actions and decisions depict his growth as a character. With the strong support of imagery within the film, every scene is clearly shown to understand the overall outcome. Not only does Harold begin to change and find balance, the surrounding characters also go through some realizations. The opposing poles in the film are freedom/passion versus order/calculation. Throughout Harold's Journey, I will use visual and aural examples to support my claims. The film begins with Harold's ordinary world: a calculated and orderly man in an isolated world with every action dictated through time. Some examples is that he counts the number of brush strokes when brushing his teeth and the number of steps it takes to get to the bus stop. Fittingly, Harold works as an IRS agent whose job is using a methodical approach to find accuracy in employees' and businesses' taxes. His inner conflict is that he allows time to dictate who he is. He battles to stray from his daily routine, finding comfort and reassurance in the precise measurements of his every action. The use of imagery is first shown with Harold's watch. The watch has three important characteristics: it is an instrument of time, a symbol of personification, and a divine power/mentor characteristics. Harold uses the watch to measure every action he makes throughout the day; when he wakes up, when he goes to work, when he returns from a work break, when he goes to bed, etc. The use of personification is that the watch has life-like qualities. The watch has a mind; it thinks that a certain method of tying a necktie makes Harold's neck look fat. Its mentor characteristics constantly conflicts with Harold's ideas and actions and tries to balance him out. The divine power the watch has will be discussed later on. Harold has several calls to adventures that he refuses. The first call is when he hears a voice narrating his actions (Karen Eiffel) while brushing his teeth. He looks at the toothbrush and says, "Hello.  He blatantly resists the narration by resuming his daily routine, like nothing strange just happened. Another resist is at the bakery while performing an audit on the Baker, Ana Pascal. After hearing the voice he utters the phrase, "Not now.  The bakery scene is important to the overall theme because it brings the opposing poles of the movie into contact. During Harol