The Movie Filter by Jeff Roedel – ‘Pilgrim,’ you caused a lot of trouble

In many ways, Scott Pilgrim is a typical, post-college slacker. He plays in a band. He pines for his ex. He is acutely self-absorbed and sheltered by the cocoon of modern culture he drinks in daily like his beloved Coke Zero. Scott’s life is fairly mundane, too, until he meets Ramona Flowers, an ultra cool magenta-haired pixie that ties his already fey tongue into ever more awkward knots. Played like a deadpan coquette by Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Ramona acts as Alice’s white rabbit did and draws Pilgrim deeper into a psychedelic fantasy realm without rules. And when anything can happen, well, it usually does. Read more…