Before I talk about today's film, I want to tell you a myth about muses and love:
King Pygmalion of Cyprus was a sculptor who lost faith in ordinary women in real life and vowed never to marry . Day and night, with all his energy, all his passion, all his love, he carves a statue of his ideal goddess, he caresses her like his wife, dresses her up, names her Galatea, and begs the gods Make her his wife. Aphrodite, the goddess of love, was moved by him and gave life to the statue, making them husband and wife.
The partner that I have always imagined in my heart, one day finally appears in front of you like magic, smiles at you, and greets you, this is such an incredible and joyful thing, in the male protagonist Karl I will talk about. On the body of the text, a lucky and happy thing happened in the myth, a goddess created by him and born of him walked out of the book and landed into his life.
The film is called "People in Love", directed by Jonathan Dayton, starring Paul Dano, Zoe Kazan, Annette Bening and others.
Calvin (played by Paul Dano) is a talented writer, with a withdrawn and closed personality, a little serious, and not sociable. The one who accompanies him the most is a dog named after his favorite writer. Leigh (Chris Messina) and his psychiatrist.
A high school dropout, at the age of 19, he created works that were named New York Times bestsellers for several consecutive years. Since then, like many well-known writers, he has been stuck in a writing bottleneck, and for many years, he has been unable to submit his second novel.
This difficult situation was reversed when he woke up from a dream, in which he met Ruby (Zoe Kazan), the heroine of a novel he was writing. She and him were like lovers who first met and fell in love In general, every day something exciting happens, every day there is a story to write.
Calvin no longer has to worry about "can't find inspiration". He is full of joy and enthusiastic work. At night he sleeps and dreams, and during the day he writes down the adventures in his dreams to the typewriter.
However, the mysterious surprise of the whole thing didn't stop there. One morning, he woke up in a hurry as usual, only to find that there was another person in his house, a woman. This woman was not who he saw in his dream. The novel wrote "He fell in love with him." girl" Ruby.
At first, Calvin thought it was a hallucination caused by his recent insanity and nervousness, but gradually it became clear that it was not a hallucination. Ruby, the perfect girl who created the fictional perfect girl in the novel, is a real person, and the feelings they have between them. Also true.
The advent of a "dream come true" type of precious love made Calvin, who once thought he would die alone, couldn't help coursing and terrified. He cherished and loved Ruby very much,
so even though he knew about Ruby - this he created The lover who came out, as long as he typed the words related to her on the paper of the typewriter, the change would take effect immediately, and Calvin was reluctant to do it, because he felt that Ruby was a person he knew and loved very much, and he will always be there. will be.
The love in love is always sweet, harmonious and intoxicating. Calvin's life has become exciting and joyful because of the arrival of Ruby. They go to bars together, watch zombie movies together, drive to the beach together, and spend a lot of time together. A carefree, fairy-like life.
But this kind of life is not destined to last long. Slowly, Calvin became worried about Ruby who was not exactly what he thought. He was different from the personality he didn't like or was good at getting along with his family. He was enthusiastic, cheerful and energetic. Ruby was happy to play with his family, and she didn't dislike his stepfather, Mott, who was terribly bored, but admired and praised him.
When Mott kindly offers Colvin the chair he made himself, he refuses uncomfortably and stubbornly, but Ruby feels he should happily accept it. The chairs were taken away and folded into the car to be taken back, but the two people sitting in the car had already turned away their initial goodwill towards each other, and the gaps and conflicts had intensified.
Calvin found that Ruby wasn't as curious and fond of herself as she wanted, and she wanted to get out and meet more people, go to art classes, and insist on staying in her own apartment one night a week.
These decisions of Ruby made Calvin, whose life was relatively monotonous, miserable. When Ruby was away, he could not sleep at night, but Ruby, who had other sustenance in life, became more and more interested every day. Calvin The time to see Ruby is getting less and less, and this makes him more and more flustered, he is afraid that if this continues, Ruby will disappear from his life, just like when she came.
Under this kind of anxious and disturbed mood, Calvin said in his heart: "If Calvin is not around, Ruby will be in pain." Thinking of this, he used the key to open the previously unfinished put away. Manuscript, put the paper into the typewriter, and type on it the words that I have been thinking about in my heart for a long time. A miracle happened. Ruby, who had told him that she wanted to play with her classmates in the bar until the early morning a second ago, called and said to Calvin. She is going home.
After that, Ruby, like a well-behaved sloth with extremely weak survival ability, was always lying on the "tree" of Calvin. Calvin enjoyed Ruby's reliance on him very much, but found that Ruby at this time was also more sensitive and vulnerable than ever. A small inadvertent move by him would make Ruby sad and tearful and unhappy for a long time.
Calvin couldn't deal with Ruby's endless depression. He was very tired, and he wanted to relieve Ruby from this exaggerated depression, so he took out his typewriter again and typed "Lubby" on the paper. than elation."
However, it didn't take long for Calvin to realize that it was wrong to set Ruby in this way. In his unusual relationship with Ruby, he felt a huge sense of powerless burnout. He was very confused and didn't want to control it. "Ruby is Ruby, happy or sad," the typewriter said.
The plot of this movie may feel detached from reality and there is no need for careful study. But as long as you put aside the form of the connotation of the film for a while, and see the most hidden emotions in it, you will feel that it is very familiar, as if it is yourself, or the truth of love that is unfolding around you.
Before you meet the love that belongs to you, although the person you want to love has not yet appeared in front of you, everything about him has already been rooted in your heart in countless expectations and imaginations.
So, when you see the person you are thinking about in your heart coming to you without any warning, you will be surprised, happy, and most importantly, you will not feel that he is unfamiliar at all, but like a We have known each other for a long time, and we have loved each other for a long time. Just like Calvin who had just met Ruby, he was terrified and joyful, but cautious.
But this is only the beginning of the mutual attraction of love. During this period, you will still be immersed in the beautifying imagination of him, and the illusion of passion will allow you to see only the good parts of him, not those that may disgust you blemishes.
Therefore, when Harry, who also knew that Calvin could manipulate and change Ruby by typing, encouraged him to make some changes, Calvin denied it without thinking. He thought he knew everything about Ruby, but most of it was just wishful thinking in his love mentality. At this time, Ruby was perfect in his heart.
But when the passion gradually receded, the two sides no longer looked at each other with the illusory vision at the beginning, but implemented every detail of real life. It is also at this time that two people will break out all kinds of contradictions and conflicts, and these will require a lot of energy and growth for you to deal with. It's not like just laughing and laughing like in the period of love.
When Calvin faced the various problems that Ruby "threw" to him, he didn't really take the time to think about how to solve it. His strong desire to control made him think about what he needed Ruby to do, or what Ruby could do. what must be done.
Ruby attends art class and goes to bars with her classmates, causing Calvin to worry about becoming a less important person in her life. The solution to this concern was to keep Ruby from him completely.
The adjusted Ruby is always more emotional, crying sadly at every turn, which makes Calvin uncomfortable and has a headache. He doesn't want to think about how to coax her and enlighten her every day. The solution is to make herself happy directly.
Yes, he just wants you to come when he needs your company and leave when he needs someone to read quietly. Such a person, in the final analysis, does not understand and does not need a lover at all. What he loves most is only himself.
In fact, you can almost tell just how controlling Calvin is in the details of how Calvin treats his dog. He said that his dog was afraid of life and didn't like being touched, but his dog actually enjoyed being touched; when Mott was feeding his dog food on the table, he was quick to stop him and said that his dog He doesn't like to eat human food, but his dog obviously enjoys it.
All of this is actually not a dog's problem, but Calvin himself can't stand it. He doesn't allow so many people to love his dog together, and he doesn't allow his dog to be fed from the person he hates the most.
At Calvin's mother's house, Ruby told Calvin how cheerful, enthusiastic and joyful his mother was, Calvin replied indifferently to Ruby that his mother was not like this before. Housework", said "now she seems to be brainwashed".
But Ruby disagreed. She turned her head to one side and said earnestly, "I think she's very happy with Mott," before turning her back on Calvin.
Obviously, when his father was alive, Calvin's mother may have shown what his father liked, she was diligent in taking care of housework, and other things that were meaningless should not be thought too much. But that was certainly not his mother's own will.
She has passion, creativity, and imagination. In order to take care of her father and marriage, she had to suppress her own thoughts. After meeting Mott, who was willing to understand and support her, she broke free from the shackles and found and lived a real life. Own.
Therefore, loving a person can also change a person, but the premise is that you have to use endless pampering love to see her true thinking heart, you change him, just to make him live happier, not Just to make my life easier. Love is not too troublesome, or you will never be able to keep love.
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