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 people have become obsessed with trying to have full control over everything that happens in their lives, and the lives of those close to them. 

They do that without really thinking about the consequences of having such power.

Quite frankly, it would drive us and those around us insane, because who needs that much power?
-Where is the beauty in managing to change any situation if you didn’t like its outcome? 
-What is the point in being able to control every single element of your life?

Where exactly is the living in that? We wouldn’t really be learning and experiencing life that way, we would just be existing, perfectly yet dully. 

-And what happens after you take control of your life? 
-What happens when you’re able to control every single situation, every single person around you to suit your needs and wants at that certain point? 

You would have lived the life but then what’s next?

Life I realize isn’t really about perfection. A situation needs to be perfect, a party needs to be perfect, but your entire life does not need to be perfect. Life is messy and complicated for a reason, trying to take away the mess and complications only gives quite a dull, uninteresting life.

Live,

Experience,

Fall,

Live,

To the fullest.