Ruby Sparks

Ratings: 6.7/10

Film Class: C+

Genre: Teenage Drama

What if an imaginary girl of your dreams (literally) were to suddenly appear in your life, to have already fallen so deeply in love with you, and whom you can control her to do as you demand? Sounds too good to be true? Well, that's Ruby Sparks for you, in a nutshell. A one-time hit wonder novelist suffers from writer's block. Desperate, he creates a fictional female lead for his new novel out of this one vague dream of her. He creates a fictional relationship between himself and the female lead, only to discover one day that, "She's out of his mind (tagline for movie)".

What's intriguing is that the lead actress, Zoe Kazan, is the one who also wrote the screenplay for this movie. An original, yet twisted romantic story of a teenage couple. However, this is no chick flick (I find this catchy term rather sexist, but have used it in this context for the purest of intentions - to mean that the film genre mainly deals with love and romance and designed to appeal largely to female target audience [as defined by wikipedia]). Instead, there's some dark, cultist, "emo-ing" content to this. 

There was a particular scene which could easily have passed off as a scene in a horror film. It was so disturbing it's still stuck in my head even after catching it more than 2 weeks ago. I was expecting more of a feel-good, light-hearted Little Miss Sunshine mood sprinkled with teenage romance kinda movie. This just reminds me of The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Catching 2 such movies within such a short span of time sure brought out the "emo-ness" in me... so, be warned.