Sentences with phrase «calvin dreams of a girl»

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Ruby Sparks wants to wag its finger at the Manic Pixie Dream Girl ideal while still having lots of fun with the Ruby character and pouring out a lot of sympathy towards poor old troubled Calvin.

Ruby is literally a construct of Calvin's tortured sensitive imagination, which allows the film to flirt with the potential of critiquing male wish fulfilment in the form of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl, which Ruby conforms to wholeheartedly.

Of course, the manic pixie dream girl who comes to life is an affectation, too, but in the screenplay by Zoe Kazan, Ruby Sparks (played by Kazan) turns out to be a multi-layered woman, with a personality all her own, which is not always to Calvin's liking.

Although Ruby Sparks begins as a caricature of a the «manic pixie dream girl,» having literally been constructed out of the mind of a depressed male - writer, this dream woman quickly becomes a nightmare as her writer, Calvin, must contend with the realities of having a girlfriend with quirks and insecurities, rather than just being a simplistic idealization.

After a dream of meeting a lovely girl in the park, Calvin's fingers tear through his manual typewriter and develop a story around his literal dream girl.