Ruby Sparks

[Ms Thrifty]

I think you could see that Calvin felt painfully ambivalent about his manipulation of Ruby even as he was orchestrating it: he looked as wracked by guilt as she did by her emotional rollercoaster.

[canadian_turtle]

I agree. He was just making a point to her, not misusing his ability for his own pleasure. He could've done so much harm throughout their relationship but he mostly stayed very chivalrous, I don't think many other people would've done the same in his position.

[Beate]

Saw this with Nectar points today.

I thought this could have been so much better. It didn't know whether it wanted to be a comedy, a rom-com or a Frankenstein movie. It was actually a bit creepy, especially in that scene where he starts writing her actions like a madman. It tries very hard to make a point about relationships and that we should take someone as they are and not try to change them but I wanted it to be funnier and not so slow - by the time he really started manipulating her the film was nearly over! Also, are we really supposed to believe that there are writers out there still typing away on an old-fashioned typewriter? And why did he not try to manipulate other people by his writing? And did we have to have Steve Coogan in it?

7/10

[raj101]

I think this was directly related to the emotional ups and downs she went through when Calvin kept altering her thoughts in the scenes that came before, not the writer's perspective on women in general.

very perceptive.


good cross-genre flick, bit disturbing.

[biggins]

Saw this yesterday using one of my vouchers. A so-so movie - nothing to excite me about it. He did get rid of the typewriter at the end and up date to a laptop but given that he made so much money from his first book ( judging by the house he lived in )you would think he would have had a computer long ago.

Is it me or did we never really find out if others did see her or was that in his imagination also? The wooden chair was there so he had been to his mothers house so he didn't dream that. 5/10

[canadian_turtle]

Is it me or did we never really find out if others did see her or was that in his imagination also? The wooden chair was there so he had been to his mothers house so he didn't dream that. 5/10

His brother and mother communicated with her and the scene in the restaurant/cafe where he was on a "date" with the other girl confirmed that she was real as he did get wet from the glass she threw and the waiter commented on it.

[biggins]

Is it me or did we never really find out if others did see her or was that in his imagination also? The wooden chair was there so he had been to his mothers house so he didn't dream that. 5/10

His brother and mother communicated with her and the scene in the restaurant/cafe where he was on a "date" with the other girl confirmed that she was real as he did get wet from the glass she threw and the waiter commented on it.

Yes I know that they all said they could see her but at the end she wasn't real after all it was he who had invented her. He said at the end was that it was some kind of magic when he came across the "real" Ruby sitting under the tree. So how was she seen by everyone if she didn't exist - so that is why I wondered if he had imagined them actually seeing her too.

[canadian_turtle]

Is it me or did we never really find out if others did see her or was that in his imagination also? The wooden chair was there so he had been to his mothers house so he didn't dream that. 5/10

His brother and mother communicated with her and the scene in the restaurant/cafe where he was on a "date" with the other girl confirmed that she was real as he did get wet from the glass she threw and the waiter commented on it.

Yes I know that they all said they could see her but at the end she wasn't real after all it was he who had invented her. He said at the end was that it was some kind of magic when he came across the "real" Ruby sitting under the tree. So how was she seen by everyone if she didn't exist - so that is why I wondered if he had imagined them actually seeing her too.

I understood it completely differently, lol. To me it all did happen and wasn't a dream, the "real" Ruby at the end meaning the one he had written to be "real" so he could no longer manipulate her and she had no memories of him as her creator.

[raj101]

man I wish I could create some dream chick with my laptop.

[Ms Thrifty]

This was what I meant when I said if I thought too hard about the ending, it didn't make sense to me...