Pleasantly Surprised by Scott Pilgrim v.s The World

After seeing, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, I have to say that it was not the movie I had expected to see and it far exceeded the low expectations that I had. As a movie that is based off a comic and presented in a videogame style, it appeared that the movie would be extremely anti-feminist, with a few weak female characters, who remained the same throughout. Though this was true for most of the movie, by the end some of the female roles had growth.

Honestly, I don’t know if anyone else in the theater was surprised by the relative growth of the character, Knives, compared with the main female role, Ramona. Knives is introduced to the story as the main character, Scott Pilgrim’s new asian, catholic “high school” girlfriend. All his friends consider her to be no more than temporary, serving only as a rebound for Scott, who is still devastated by his last breakup. As Knives and Scott date, she begins to become obsessed with him and his band, becoming the slightly creepy groupie. Anyways, Scott continues to go out with Knives and as he is on a date with her he proceeds to become interested in the new girl Ramona Flowers. Basically, Knives gets dumped for Ramona and she does not take it well. Her behavior after the breakup is not more necessarily more obsessive than before, but redirected to a hatred of Ramona.

So, I think its pretty safe to say that Knives is a ongoing joke throughout the movie; serving as no more than the obsessive ex-girlfriend, who stalks Scott as he goes on fighting off Ramona's exes. Though Scott definitely has the most obvious character development in the story, it wasn't the person I found to have the most interesting development. Come the end of the movie it’s not Ramona who becomes her the heroine of her own story as I expected, but Knives. Through an extremely obvious, but very entertaining, proclaiming of the story’s moral, Knives proves to be the female role that develops some self-respect and shows, more maturity than anyone watching the movie from the start could have expected her to possess.

Overall, the movie was really well done and even though some people walked out (a older couple and a young family) it is a great movie for those who enjoy video games and comics.