Worth a look, especially for those Virgos who have to figure out how to bite down on a hamburger (that's me), haha.
It's time for spoilers.
Calvin published his first best-selling novel in high school, and has lived as a "genius writer" until today, ten years later. The manager said: You are a genius. Calvin A: Don't call me that, those who want to be friends with me admire the "genius", not me. (Haha, the high school girl who took the initiative to strike up a conversation is also doing well)
Calvin is lonely, insecure, and reserved. Holding Teddy Bear and curling up in the psychiatrist's chair, he said: I want to adopt a puppy, because I want to take it to an outing to chat up easily, but Scotty urinates like a girl and is shy. Until Ruby shows up and touches Scotty's head: i like the way he is.
Ruby's neuroticism and spontaneity, sweetness and complexity, maybe all Calvin desires?
Calvin has always lived in his own world. Re-encountering his ex-girlfriend Lila who just published a new book, Calvin asks: Are you jealous of me? Lila said: You are not interested in me at all, you only care about yourself. On vacation at his mother's and stepfather's house, when everyone was having a good time, Calvin chose to sleep in a tree house. Ruby complains: I'm so tired, you don't have any friends but me. Calvin replied: I am enough with you. Because Ruby is also in the world he can control.
After Ruby materialized, Calvin stopped writing, not letting the other party know that he created her. Because, true love should be the love of two equal individuals out of free will.
But when Ruby started to think of her own and wanted her own space, Calvin couldn't take it. Ruby is his world, so there can be no world outside of him. So he controlled Ruby with the ability of the creator, and from the moment he wrote the first word, he was destined to never turn back.
In the end, Calvin was typing in front of Ruby, showing that he was a "god", and I couldn't even shake my breath when I saw it. Unconvinced, Ruby slammed into the invisible wall, her uncontrollable body, crying and praising Calvin, nakedly showing the cruelty of being manipulated. Every time Calvin finishes a paragraph, he slaps a new line, and it hits my heart. The last despair, the desperation of secret exposure, is the most heart-wrenching only because it is irreversible.
The plot is like an eight o'clock TV series, and some shoddy Hong Kong-made romantic comedies. For example, when the hero writes a book for the heroine after she leaves, he is very impulsive and inserts in his mind "Days without a constant heart, No. 1". Thirty-eighth..." or something like a narration, or a love song sung by the male lead. But the details of the movie give the whole story texture and unconventional style. For example, the scene where the two played at the beach were sweet and meticulous daily routines. (This kind of meticulousness is a bit like Little Miss Sunshine, but I prefer the latter's slightly evil laughter and tears, and the director and his wife are really not covered).
It was expected that Calvin would play "she was free." (although in the end, her freedom was also bestowed by him), the happy ending for the two of them to meet again was too sweet, a little happy ending for the happy ending. A self-growth story of a control freak Virgo who finally learned to let go and rewarded him with a girlfriend?
I feel that the film is a bit about the relationship between the creator and the created, but the more precise theme is to visualize the wrestling between lovers. We all consciously want to influence/control the people around us to varying degrees, right? However, I have always believed that only by respecting each other's free will and equal status can we truly love each other.
Like a trapeze, let go and catch it. The freedom to leave is called true possession.
So, if it were me, I would arrange for the heroine to have a new love, hum. As Mayday sang: "Your world will let you have my tenderness without disturbing you".
PS Google, although the story is the dream of otaku, but the script was originally written by the heroine Zoe Kazan, and she and the hero are real lovers! Coming from a theater family, the whole family is a screenwriter (!), grandfather is director Elia Kazan, A Streetcar Named Desire and On the waterfront are his works.
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