#rubysparksedit

[bellamysgriffin]

RUBY SPARKS (dir. Valerie Ferris & Jonathan Dayton)

[lexsfosters]

 Here’s the thing, Ruby has no power to push back and leave when it comes to Calvin, since she came to life through his writing and was bonded to it. Calvin, a misogynistic shitbag, literally had all the power to control and change her to his own liking.  Calvin’s ex Lila (on the right), also dealt with his “enforcing his own ideal relationship” bullshit onto her too but the difference here is that her entire existence isn’t bonded and controlled by Calvin, she had the actual (and rightful) choice to leave him. Ruby does not, until Calvin decided to “free” her which I still think they should have made Ruby manage to break herself from the relationship instead of having her abuser free her.

Consistently, throughout the movie,  Calvin had refused to let Ruby be her own person, let her live her own life all because he didn’t like how things went, which is not HIS WAY. He did not give a single crap about Ruby’s feelings at all, same with Lila as she explicitly said to him in that scene. When he gets called out by both of these women, he either ignores it, blames them for basically everything, and/or continued abusing them because, you know, his initial response to women  is to treat them like garbage. 

Ruby Sparks is not a romantic movie, nor should it be treated as such because the relationship between Calvin and Ruby consisted of Calvin literally taking away her consent and free will, and him being a narcissistic misogynist asswipe.

[illgiveyouahint]

Oh, I'm just having trouble wrapping my head around the reality of this situation. That you're here. That you're real. It all seems pretty incredible.

Movies (15/???) | Ruby Sparks (2012)

[sonolent]

This is the true and impossible story of my very great love. In the hope that she will not read this and reproach me, I have withheld many telling details: her name, the particulars of her birth and upbringing, and any identifying scars or birth marks. All the same, I can’t help but write this for her, to tell her “I’m sorry for every word I wrote to change you, I’m sorry for so many things. I couldn’t see you when you were here and, now that you’re gone, I see you everywhere.” One may read this and think it’s magic, but falling in love is an act of magic, so is writing. 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.” I’m no JD Salinger, but I’ve witnessed a rare miracle. Any writer can attest: in the luckiest, happiest state, the words are not coming from you, but through you. She came to me wholly herself, I was just lucky enough to be there to catch her.

[h-quinzel]

top 50 favourite movies (in no particular order)

ruby sparks (2012)

[willlemdafoe]

100 FILMS IN 2013 → 103/100 Films: Ruby Sparks (2012)

Calvin Weir-Fields: This is the true and impossible story of my very great love. In the hope that she will not read this and reproach me, I have withheld many telling details: her name, the particulars of her birth and upbringing, and any identifying scars or birth marks. All the same, I cannot help but write this for her, to tell her "I'm sorry for every word I wrote to change you, I'm sorry for so many things. I couldn't see you when you were here and, now that you're gone, I see you everywhere." One may read this and think it's magic, but falling in love is an act of magic, so is writing. 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." I am no J.D. Salinger, but I have witnessed a rare miracle. Any writer can attest: in the luckiest, happiest state, the words are not coming from you, but through you. She came to me wholly herself, I was just lucky enough to be there to catch her.