They say that with great literature the words come alive on the page, but what if this actually happened? That the figment of your imagination became reality? This is the premise for Ruby Sparks, a love story with an inventive premise but one that’s portrayal of relationships feels very real. Calvin Weir-Fields (Paul Dano) is a write, whom at the age of 19 wrote a seminal bestselling novel, which he now lives in the shadow of. Struggling with ‘second album’ syndrome, Calvin has writers block and his life is insular, lonely and he finds it hard to meet people, only spending time with his dog Scotty, his brother Harry ( Chris Messina) and his therapist Dr Rosenthal (Elliot Gould). Calvin begins to dream about a girl and, set with an assignment by Dr Rosenthal, to write something ‘bad’ he begins to pen a love story between Ruby (Zoe Kazan), literally the girl of his dreams, and himself. But the lines between reality become blurred and as Calvin spends more and more time in his imaginative world, the hint that Ruby is more than words on a page come to a head when she appears one morning in his kitchen, making breakfast as if it’s the most natural thing in the world. For Ruby, it is, as she believes she is simply his girlfriend and once a frantic, bewildered Calvin realises that he is not completely delusional and that everyone can see Ruby, he begins to relish the chance to have a relationship with the girl he wished for. Initially Calvin decides to no longer write about himself and Ruby and just enjoy the miracle he has created but as Ruby starts to become her own person and develop from the pages that she originated from, Calvin worries she may grow too far away from him and through fear of abandonment, he is faced with the morality of returning to his typewriter to keep his dream girl to himself.
Wednesday, 17 October 2012
Ruby Sparks (directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris)
They say that with great literature the words come alive on the page, but what if this actually happened? That the figment of your imagination became reality? This is the premise for Ruby Sparks, a love story with an inventive premise but one that’s portrayal of relationships feels very real. Calvin Weir-Fields (Paul Dano) is a write, whom at the age of 19 wrote a seminal bestselling novel, which he now lives in the shadow of. Struggling with ‘second album’ syndrome, Calvin has writers block and his life is insular, lonely and he finds it hard to meet people, only spending time with his dog Scotty, his brother Harry ( Chris Messina) and his therapist Dr Rosenthal (Elliot Gould). Calvin begins to dream about a girl and, set with an assignment by Dr Rosenthal, to write something ‘bad’ he begins to pen a love story between Ruby (Zoe Kazan), literally the girl of his dreams, and himself. But the lines between reality become blurred and as Calvin spends more and more time in his imaginative world, the hint that Ruby is more than words on a page come to a head when she appears one morning in his kitchen, making breakfast as if it’s the most natural thing in the world. For Ruby, it is, as she believes she is simply his girlfriend and once a frantic, bewildered Calvin realises that he is not completely delusional and that everyone can see Ruby, he begins to relish the chance to have a relationship with the girl he wished for. Initially Calvin decides to no longer write about himself and Ruby and just enjoy the miracle he has created but as Ruby starts to become her own person and develop from the pages that she originated from, Calvin worries she may grow too far away from him and through fear of abandonment, he is faced with the morality of returning to his typewriter to keep his dream girl to himself.
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Sounds to be a more serious Ted.
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