Why did he keep comparing real life to a movie?

"What better way is there to compare your life to other people's lives?"

"Comparing life 10 years ago to now is like heaven and earth," he said.

A novel comparing life in the 18th and 20th centuries.

I basically compared my life with the lives of these children, and the differences were so astounding.

I'm not the only one who compares my life with that of my parents and comes up short.

Sarah, compare your life to mine; you've always had more choices than I did.

It also has been interpreted as comparing life to waking and death to sleeping.

I never would complain when you compare life here with Soviet Union.

Residents compare life at 45 Wall to a financial version of "Friends."