So listen to me when I say, OMG YOU HAVE TO SEE THIS! 

The basic premise of this movie, as I see, is that there's a young guy, a writer, who peaked at an early age and never really got to enjoy it. The literary world was immediately pulled into his work and want more but he just doesn't have more. He's blocked. And it doesn't help that he's awkward around girls, shy, and a quiet genius. What's a guy to do? 

All of this fame is fine and dandy but like most people, what he really wants is someone to love him. He wants to love. How can he write a good story if he's never really lived? If he's never kissed the wrong person? If he's never said, "flip it", and punched someone in the face just because? And like most awkward people around the opposite sex, he finds the answer by hunkering down in his house, staring at the tv, and not really going for it. Not being more confident. 

But then, he gets an idea. What is the perfect woman? If it were up to him, what would his ideal woman look like? Sound like? Feel like? You can't look for certain qualities in someone if you don't even know what you want. And so he writes, and writes, and keeps on writing. He writes up the perfect woman. Her backstory, where she came from, who first broke her heart, what her parents were like. Just really getting to the nitty gritty of who this girl is, really making her three dimemensional. And as luck would have it, she actually came to life. It was little things. Her bra in a drawer, her shoes left by the door, and then finally her. His dream woman.

I won't tell you the ending or what ensues but you get the basic gist of this movie. And before you go thinking that you know the ending already, I'm here to tell you that you don't know jack squat. This movie is just mind blowing in the greatest of ways. The main actors are a married couple, Paul Dano who is amazing, and his wife Zoe Kazan who also wrote the movie. Those are the only characters you really need to worry about. 

It's about this intimate relationship between writer and creation, it's the ultimate love affair and I just love how cute and quirky this movie is without making it obvious that they're trying to be cute and quirky. That's my problem with a lot of romantic comedies, it's like they're trying too hard. And yet calling this movie a romantic comedy almost seems like an insult. I love that the lead actors are married because it provides a certain level of intimacy that must transcend beyond the page and I don't think it could have worked with two people who weren't that close.

For a sort of novice writer, I'm sure Zoe has written other things unknown to me, this was a very good script. It had very minimal locations, characters, and the dialogue actually sounded like normal conversation. There weren't many pauses and they reacted to what the other was saying rather than looking like they were waiting on the other person to say their line. 

This is a fun, cute story that has officially became my go to romantic movie. I can watch this multiple times and never get sick of it. I don't like over the top romantic movies, I don't like the super mushy stuff, and if you're like me then you know what I'm talking about. I can promise you that this movie isn't like that. Please, please, please, go watch this movie. You will not be disappointed.