Posts Tagged ‘Knives Chau’

SCOTT PILGRIM VERSUS THE WORLD, a 2010 film starring Michael Cera as Scott Pilgrim and Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Ramona Flowers, dishes out a nerd meets cool girl story and takes it to the videogame/superhero plane, right into transmedia storytelling. This is an entertaining and funny PG13 story, full of teen angst, youthful lust and the longing for true love. 

The Short Review…6 Reasons I Recommend this Film

1. Pleasing visuals and interesting action sequences…I would watch it for this alone
2. Surprising and entertaining turns with the characters and the story, many of which will make you laugh
3. Angsty youth longing for connection
4. Vibrant characters, like the melancholy Wallace Wells (Kieran Culkin) and the spunky Knives Chau (Ellen Wong) 
5. A mix-up/mash-up of reality and virtual reality in the story world

The Long Review…

SCOTT PILGRIM VERSUS THE WORLD is a film co-written, produced and directed by Edgar Wright. It is based on the graphic novel series, Scott Pilgrim, by Bryan Lee O’Malley. The film plumbs issues surrounding a young man longing for love. Scott Pilgrim is in his mid 20s and coming off a breakup. He finds himself in a relationship with Knives Chau, a highschooler who adores him, then meets Ramona Flowers, a captivating twenty-something cool girl. To win her, he has to contend with Knives as current girlfriend as well as Ramona’s ex boyfriends.

We carry our romantic histories with us and they are not always easy to shed. This is true about Scott letting go of his ex girlfriend and Ramona figuring out how to move on from her controlling ex-boyfriend(s). Both characters carry wounds and the strange action sequences in the end are a fantastical outworking of how they need to slay those old demons that might keep them from true love. 

I really like this film. It’s different, quick-paced, visually gorgeous and spins a good yarn.