Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris", the directors who once directed the movie
called "Little Miss Sunshine", which I liked.
The story seems impossible, but it tells you that it's more impossible if you want
to control a human and whose character, what he/she does, what he/she thinks
with every details. It is true that to express such an important theme in this movie, the way taken was a little bit exaggerated, but it was truly effective to tell audience
how human thinks, behaves is undefinable... Also, that's why interacting with different people, loving a man/a woman is, without doubt, interesting and like an endless journey.
Before keeping on writing my immediate feeling on this movie, I'd like to share what I interpreted this movie, without depending on wikipedia or something like that.
The story is based on the fiction that one of the famous, successful writer, although its main character, the girl called "Ruby", became real while writing her in his novel. The writer's name is Calvin. One day during the daytime, he met her in reality... First of all, he couldn't believe that she really came into his sight, but it seems really happening, as his neighborhood admitted her existence at the cafe nearby. In short, the character in his novel became real. Honestly speaking, it's unbelievable. However, I must admit that that happening is fascinating if we see it as a result of his affinity against her, even though she's not real in his novel.
In the early part of this movie, the relationship between Calvin and Ruby went well. But as time goes by, after he stopped writing her in his novel, she gradually gained her authority to decide how she spend her time. She prefers not spending the whole time with Calvin, instead, she started to enjoy spending time with her classmates at art school and spending one day in a week at her apartment. Those changes frustrated Calvin and to control her behavior, he went back to his halfway finished novel and added to her details what he wanted her...
In reality, such an authority doesn't belong to anyone else except for herself, but in this story, Calvin had it. While tentatively such additional feature made him relieved from what bothers him, after bumping into unexpected results, her peculiar behavior, he was awaken that he can no longer control her... Then he wrote that "she was free", at the night when he realized that that egoistic approach wouldn't work anymore and then told her that he created her in his novel and that's why she couldn't take back her will to do different from what he wanted her.
She was gone after the next morning came, and he just cried, fell down with his deep sorrow...
That story was published as a formal novel afterwards and highly evaluated by the readers in public.
That's a rough summary of the movie.
I felt that it's stupid if someone thinks that someone can control the other/others, however, it would be more absurd if someone wouldn't realize that he/she can control the other/others and make mistakes in his/her interaction with the people surrounding him/her again and again. People can't be superior to someone else, instead, they would be better to interact with someone else if they respect his/her will, feeling, ways of thinking, and sensitivity... And it is integral to keep learning the things that he/she doesn't own by nature or via his/her past experiences, from the other/others... Then he/she will find a better way to relate or can interact with the people, without his/her egoism....
I remember that once I was too egoistic about the relationship with my ex-girl friend, I didn't think of how much respectful about her I was... I didn't listen to what she wanted to tell me... Even recently, before turing to my wife and my son, forgetting exams related to getting an Mba, I must admit that I was too egoistic to decide what they wanted. I still remember what my wife told me last year, that what she wanted is not lots of money though a super career, but the time with me and the time with me and my son. After throwing away my studying stuffs a few months ago, I'm still adjusting my life with them. But gradually I recognize that I found the best woman in my life, who is my wife, and with her, I have the child who brought me tremendous amount of happiness with his innocent smiles at me... I don't know anyone else that smiles at me in such a doubtless manner. I felt that he is my genuine angle in my heart and am very thankful these days to my wife and people supporting me to let me have such a wonderful child in my life......
The story described in this movie touched my heart...
I hope that this feeling will be in my music in the near future...
best regards,
Kenji.
