介绍： 053 | Uh, Honey, That's Not Your Line

Moonlight from the window illuminated the tattoo of a phoenix covering the left side of her torso. I traced it with my finger, from just below her armpit, over the speed bumps of her ribs, to her hipbone. I had only seen tattoos like this in the movies, never in person, ...

介绍： 053 | Uh, Honey, That's Not Your Line

Moonlight from the window illuminated the tattoo of a phoenix covering the left side of her torso. I traced it with my finger, from just below her armpit, over the speed bumps of her ribs, to her hipbone. I had only seen tattoos like this in the movies, never in person, never this close and never in my own bed.

I knew I had found my very own Manic Pixie Dream Girl.

When he was the film critic of the A.V. Club, Nathan Rabin coined the term Manic Pixie Dream Girl to describe the love interest in Cameron Crowe’s “Elizabethtown,” though the character type has been in many movies before and since (Natalie Portman in “Garden State” being perhaps the quintessential example).

The Manic Pixie Dream Girl is now an indie-film cliché, more a collection of quirks than a person, who exists to be the perfect love interest for the male protagonist. These weird (but beautiful) girls appreciate shy, sad, creative boys and teach them to enjoy life again though sex, love and various activities done in the rain.

Though often perky, the Manic Pixie Dream Girl will be troubled as well. She straddles the narrow line between quirky and crazy, mysterious and strange, sexy and slutty; she is perfectly imperfect. And that imperfection is the key, because a Manic Pixie Dream Girl must be messed up enough to need saving, so the powerless guy can do something heroic in the third act.

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