Schizophrenic Narcissist?

Jarvis 2022-04-19 09:02:07

(The abridged version was originally published on October 26, 2012 at am730 "730 Perspective") The

otaku writer is not sociable, and his lover turns into a flesh, is it a dream or a nightmare? "Ruby Sparks" depicts the fusion of fantasy and reality, and the ending remains suspense - is the lover Ruby really an entity that travels through the literary space, or is it just a writing exercise for a psychotherapist by Qiyun, through fictional writing Give yourself actual psychotherapy effects? But Qiyun has already explained: "Don't worry about whether that experience is real or unreal! The most important thing is that the love is real." This is for the audience - in short, if you have seen it and felt romantic, it is enough to have Feel!


But it is the openness of its ending that allows the audience to have their own interpretation directions that they can stick to. I tend to think of it as a concrete representation of mental imagination; although the ending is sweet, Qiyun's frown, with a trace of unbreakable sadness, hints at the stagnation in his heart. The phantom-like world of "Book" centers on Qiyun's loneliness. He has no friends, but he does not admire himself or enjoy himself, but desperately needs the approval of others; although he is already a famous writer, he has connections in the circle, and he is well-dressed in literary and artistic occasions, and even some girls volunteer their lives, but they call him more Want to escape, escape into a dream. Qiyun was a talented writer who dropped out of high school when he debuted, but now he has reached the bottleneck stage of creation. The girl in the dream, Ruby, not only resolved his loneliness, but also became his source of inspiration, and then jumped out of paper to become a real person.

The author is the creator of the characters, but when Ruby is transformed from a "character" into a real person, it cannot be controlled by another person. The "real" Ruby is not perfect, because she always exceeds Qiyun's expectations, has her own feelings, ideas, and hopes to build her own circle of friends... Qiyun can't help but manipulate her through writing, thinking that she is her god . Whatever he writes, Ruby does it like a puppet, and is finally forced to keep saying, "You're a genius! You're a genius!" revealing the deep desires of this withdrawn writer -- he's a hateful and pathetic man . Although Qiyun's appearance is quiet and thin, his actions of manipulating others are extremely violent. However, he couldn't interfere with Ruby's soul, couldn't contain her hatred, because she was already an autonomous person.


In fact, Qiyun's ex-girlfriend has said it plainly: "A person like you can only love yourself." He's a narcissist who just projects himself, imagines a girlfriend, and falls in love with him. But a real person, no matter how intimate, is the other. This is Qiyun's Achilles heel; he's a manipulative man who doesn't know how to get along with others, because others won't do what he wants, so he has to create love with words, only to destroy it himself. It wasn't until he repented and let Ruby go free that she became a real person---and at this time, Qiyun had the possibility to truly love.

View more about Ruby Sparks reviews

Extended Reading

Ruby Sparks quotes

  • Harry: Quirky, messy women whose problems only make them endearing are not real.

  • Calvin Weir-Fields: She's a person.

    Harry: You haven't written a person, okay? You've written a girl.