"Don't let it be forgot / That once there was a spot / For one brief shining moment / That was known as Camelot!"

Gotta love a good musical. Camelot embodies the Christian worldview very symbolically. King Arthur represents Christ, standing for righteousness, ethics, and fidelity in his kingdom of Camelot. Just like Christ, Arthur was chosen as this representative. We are like the little boy at the end - we have received a gift we don't deserve, a knighting into a noble kingdom and the compassion of a fearless, loving leader. This last scene represents the Great Comission, as we are called to go out and make disciples of the world - to keep on the legacy of Christ - the legacy of purity and goodness.

A movie about a book about "intercollectivity and the looming uncertainty of death"

I've seen Stranger than Fiction before, but watching it again reminded me just how amazing it is! It's so deep and meaningful, well thought-out and complex, exposing and emotive.
Stranger than Fiction is clearly Postmodern (haha, that's kind of an oxymoron right there), and I picked up on a lot of similarities to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. First of all, from the letter "Y" in "THENDYWAMPS," both deal a lot with the question, "Why?" Harold Crick eventually starts wondering why everything is happening this way to him - he has questions about his life and about his purpose, just like R&G (and just like everyone else in the world at some point!). Both works deal with (as the character Karen Eiffel says) "the continuity of life and the inevitability of death." The very name of Eiffel's book is Death and Taxes, the two inevitable things in the world! Harold tells Professor Jules Hilbert that even when he tried to "do nothing," the plot followed him (in the form of a demolition crane wrecking his apartment), and Jules tells him, "Harold, you don't control your fate." All of this ties into the idea that life is scripted and that we are merely actors on a stage. When we're first introduced to Karen Eiffel, we see her holding her hands out like a puppeteer pretending to orchestrate events in the city of New York. This likens the author to a God figure who dictates the progression of events and essentially writes and directs the play. When Anna asks Harold why he jumped in front of a bus to save a little boy he replies, "I didn't have a choice. I had to." It was his fate - his unavoidable, inescapable fate. But wait -- he doesn't end up dying! So... what are they trying to say? Maybe that we do have a little say in our actions after all? Can you say "Existentialism"? AllAboutPhilosophy.org says, "Existentialism is a 20th century philosophy concerned with human existence, finding self, and the meaning of life through free will, choice, and personal responsibility. The belief that people are searching to find out who and what they are throughout life as they make choices based on their experiences, beliefs, and outlook without the help of laws, ethnic rules, or traditions. Existentialism then stresses that a person’s judgment is the determining factor for what is to be believed rather than by religious or secular world values" (http://www.allaboutphilosophy.org/existentialism-definition-faq.htm). So while the bulk of the movie says, "Fate is inescapable and you have no control over your life," the conclusion of the movie says that you do make choices and exert judgment and free will. Because Harold cares enough to pursue answers to his questions, he ultimately changes the course of his life. The emotional journey he endures brings him to a point at which he is willing to die for a good cause and to make his life meaningful. This is what makes Ms. Eiffel think, "Isn't that the kind of man you want to keep alive?" In the beginning of the movie, the once anonymous narrator tells us that this is a story about Harold and his wristwatch - and those are precisely the two things that save him.