My best way of judging how interesting a movie is is by how often I look at the timer on the BD player. With 'Ruby Sparks' i hardly looked at all. I found it totally interesting all the way.
Novelty is also added by the fact that the two leads are a couple in real life, and she wrote the script. It is a story that expands on the concept that a writer creates characters out of his imagination and figuratively brings them to life. In this story the character literally comes to life.
Paul Dano is writer Calvin Weir-Fields who published his best-seller when he was only 19. Now, about 10 years later he is seeing a shrink because he can't write. The shrink gives him an assignment, to write something for him.
Calvin finally exercises his imagination and creates the character 'Ruby Sparks', and imagines her as everything he desired in a woman. He goes to his typewriter, yes the mechanical kind, and writes. One day he awakes and she is actually there, Ruby in his apartment. He thinks he is going crazy, but when he finds that other people also can see her and hear her, he accepts that she is real.
Zoe Kazan (granddaughter of Elia Kazan) wrote the script and is Ruby Sparks.
As the story develops Calvin finds that if he wants to change Ruby's behavior all he has to do is go to the typewriter and write it, then Ruby becomes it. Speaking in French, for one example. Then when he writes that Ruby cannot leave, and she bumps into an invisible wall as she tries to exit, Calvin has come to his most sinister point.
But there is a phrase, " If You Love Something Set It Free. If It Comes Back, It Was And Always Will Be Yours. If It Never Returns, It Was Never Yours To Begin With." So Calvin types that Ruby will be free to go, and she will have no recollection of the events. That in essence is the point of the story, for Calvin to allow himself to lose control.
As the movie is concluding, Calvin is walking in the park with his dog, and the dog runs ahead. He finds the dog with Ruby, but Ruby has lost any memory of the dog or Calvin. And the rest of the story is to see if Calvin and Ruby can establish something real.
Good movie.
Novelty is also added by the fact that the two leads are a couple in real life, and she wrote the script. It is a story that expands on the concept that a writer creates characters out of his imagination and figuratively brings them to life. In this story the character literally comes to life.
Paul Dano is writer Calvin Weir-Fields who published his best-seller when he was only 19. Now, about 10 years later he is seeing a shrink because he can't write. The shrink gives him an assignment, to write something for him.
Calvin finally exercises his imagination and creates the character 'Ruby Sparks', and imagines her as everything he desired in a woman. He goes to his typewriter, yes the mechanical kind, and writes. One day he awakes and she is actually there, Ruby in his apartment. He thinks he is going crazy, but when he finds that other people also can see her and hear her, he accepts that she is real.
Zoe Kazan (granddaughter of Elia Kazan) wrote the script and is Ruby Sparks.
As the story develops Calvin finds that if he wants to change Ruby's behavior all he has to do is go to the typewriter and write it, then Ruby becomes it. Speaking in French, for one example. Then when he writes that Ruby cannot leave, and she bumps into an invisible wall as she tries to exit, Calvin has come to his most sinister point.
But there is a phrase, " If You Love Something Set It Free. If It Comes Back, It Was And Always Will Be Yours. If It Never Returns, It Was Never Yours To Begin With." So Calvin types that Ruby will be free to go, and she will have no recollection of the events. That in essence is the point of the story, for Calvin to allow himself to lose control.
As the movie is concluding, Calvin is walking in the park with his dog, and the dog runs ahead. He finds the dog with Ruby, but Ruby has lost any memory of the dog or Calvin. And the rest of the story is to see if Calvin and Ruby can establish something real.
Good movie.