Scott Pilgrim vs. the World Turns Ten: Age and the Pilgrim

Yorgo Lee
7 min readMay 26, 2020
10 yrs!?

-Edgar Wright’s genius for capturing the struggles of twenty somethings continues to amaze after ten years.

For Scott Pilgrim age means a lot. The story takes place at a moment in the characters’ lives when just five years can feel like a lifetime. The difference between 18 and 23 might as well be the distance from here to the next galaxy.

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Yorgo Lee

Amateur Everything: slow learner, low earner, long thinker, kind of addicted to going unnoticed.