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Afterthoughts - Ruby Sparks

This time it is the Movie, Ruby Sparks, for directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris and writer/co-star Zoe Kazan. In this movie, Calvin, a lonely writer suddenly finds a character he made up/wrote living in his house, practically in love with him. Only to realize soon afterwards that this girl, is basically his creation and anything he wants to change or add in her character can be done so easily through writing, which he vows to never use because she is his dream girl, but soon he succumbs to the temptations.  “It was once said of Catcher in the Rye. That rare miracle of fiction has again come to pass. A human being has been created out of ink, paper and the imagination.” – Calvin Weir-Fields. As things unfold, the  character starts getting paranoid of how rapidly she changes, and he becomes obsessed with the idea that he can fully control her every move, and this lead me to think that p eople have become obsessed with trying to have full control ov...