--- Huang Shujun "Change 1995"
"Exclusive News", as the follow-up to "The End of the Game", the second part of the London trilogy, it is impossible not to attract attention. "The End of the Match" is Woody Allen's first work when he leaves the United States and travels abroad. It really doesn't look like his style. There is no self-deprecating humor, epidemic-like chattering, and there is no such poetic love affair that asks for and asks for nothing. Like a scalpel, he wilfully portrays the entanglement of eroticism in the background of an exotic atmosphere like the United Kingdom. The final ending is also very concise and powerful. So it is inevitable that some people will say that "The End of the Game" is the least Woody Allen-style movie like Woody Allen. But it did succeed, and it was very attractive, and it made the perfect preparation for the next follow-up. Perhaps this is the most interesting part of the London trilogy series.
But it can only be said that fans who have a soft spot for Woody Allen's gag are blessed, because "Scoop News" is obviously a turnaround. Although the heroine is still Scarlett Johansson in the previous movie, she is a stunner blonde beauty. In the film, he appears as an American journalism student to cover up the abruptness of the American accent. The actor is also full of British style Hugh Jackman. Woody Allen also played a magician in the film after an addiction. But this film is truly a game of Woody Allen. To say it is a game, it’s not that the quality of the film is not high. It’s just that the director’s starting point is to make an interesting and interesting work, not to have a profound meaning comparable to "Manhattan" or "The End of the Game." .
But what's the big deal? Unlike his contemporaries, the "movie boys" who "bloom two flowers and one branch" made very different but equally good movies, and they ranked among the top Hollywood guides. It's like shooting Steven Spielberg of "Hintler's List" and "Jaws". The game does not hinder the self-expression of a director, on the contrary, it allows his various talents to be brought into play. Therefore, we cannot see the despair of Woody Allen's nihilism in "Scoop", nor the torture of the truth of life in "The End of the Game", nor the melancholy of literary temperament in "Anne Hall". love. Because this is just a comedy that is relaxed and humorous. Perhaps it also reveals a little truth, but that is an understatement. People would rather appreciate it with a smile than just sit in a tight-knit solution.
So we saw the heroine go deep into the tiger's den to investigate a nobleman in order to get the exclusive news. After falling in love with the nobleman, let the magician friend go to the room where he added the code to collect evidence. The ease of the prom and the tension of the evidence search create a lot of fun. It looks like a mocking version of "Beauty". I believe that even Hitchcock will smile when he sees it and believes it. It is also a murder case, and the end of the game in "The End of the Match" has become the biggest highlight in the movie. Don't hesitate to put people's beliefs in absurd situations. In the "Exclusive News", the heroine successfully corrected the nobleman who was about to marry, but she was still permeated with Woody Allen's pessimistic tone. If it were not for a series of coincidences, she would never find evidence. The crappy killer, the witness who appeared after death, everything helped her find the killer. But perhaps there is no evidence that the nobles committed the crime, and they can get married as they wish. They may not be happy without mastering the truth.
Perhaps life is so fragile, like Milan Kundera's "The Unbearable Lightness of Life". Probably there is no true god, and there is no faith. We are living in a society where conclusions can be drawn using genetics and probability theory. This is not a shameful thing, but a bit cruel. But we are also sad or happy in this kind of bridge, to experience the true meaning of life.
Nowadays, the London trilogy has long become a past tense, and Woody Allen, who has been in exile in a foreign country, has become an out-and-out troubadour, and is still in full swing shooting "Midnight Paris". He was seventy-five years old, but he knew the elusiveness of life younger than anyone else, and he continued to love every single moment of nothingness.
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