Ruby Sparks IS a manic pixie dream girl… and that’s okay. Zoe Kazan, the writer of Ruby Sparks, is emphatic that the movie is not a conscious response to the Manic Pixie Dream Girl, but she adds that “I’m very happy to have this movie read as a critique of that, if that’s how you want to read it.”
And that’s exactly how I want to read it, because Ruby highlights the dangers of treating women like characters who exist “solely in the fevered imaginations of sensitive writer-director[s].”
