Woody Allen's rhetoric makes him like America's Rohmer. Rohmer's films also discuss love, with a European humanistic color, and most of the characters are suave and middle-class. And Woody Allen's characters are similar, mostly intellectuals and middle class. Perhaps because of the different historical and cultural background, his protagonist should be a little more wild. Whether he is a director or a writer, he is not always so comprehensive. It looks a little more complicated and more realistic.
A person who can win a golden job at a young age by writing jokes, will see the world in a serious way like Rohmer? Obviously not. In any case, in Woody Allen's film, it feels similar to Rohmer's style, but Woody Allen is himself after all, not someone else. While Rohmer's protagonist diligently explores his views on the world, Woody hides behind his protagonist, allowing them to speak in earnest as well, but they are different in their bones. Woody is not the one to say yes, but to say He is someone who sees the world in reverse.
In Woody's films, thinking and confusion are often shown. The protagonists like to communicate endlessly, which reminds people of the talk shows that Americans like. One person tells jokes in front of everyone, and everyone can't stop laughing. Although the jokes are small, there is often an essential disclosure. Now it's just that the one-man show has been moved to the movie, and it's changed to a group show. Talking is still the main way for everyone to communicate and show. Somehow, we love these conversations, both peeping and self-reflection. These dialogues are not family dramas of mother-in-law and mother, and the lines are not so mentally retarded. The protagonist is thinking about reality and existence, and how to face his own confusion. There would be no films without those confusions. But making a movie doesn't solve the confusion either. After reading it, maybe what we remember is that behind Woody's glasses, there are big innocent eyes full of question marks. Even in old age, his eyes are still so innocent. We remember this confused look and image as if it were the label of these films.
Therefore, I feel that these films of Woody are closely related to his thinking and life. It is enough to turn his confusion into a script and resonate with the audience. The audience can gain recognition and vent in an experience.
There is also a talker in "Blue Jasmine". She's still a woman. Talker is not enough to talk to others, but she also talks to herself. Talker has become a kind of mental illness. This may be the culmination of Woody's film collection to represent this role.
But this time, there are no intellectuals we are familiar with, and Jasmine University has not yet graduated. Although she is a middle-class stinky, vain and pretentious, after all, she is just a beautiful wife with financial talents. Her specialty is that she can hold parties and buy famous brands. . It can be said that she has nothing to do with Woody's middle-class intellectuals. It's a talker that points out that this is a Woody movie. But there are so many differences. Woody's films, for example, have always had so many glorious women. You think Woody adores them, fears them, admires them, wants to praise them, think of them as goddesses. It seemed that those beautiful qualities that he didn't have in himself were already innate in these women, and he was just an admirer, submissive, as a foil, looking at his former girlfriends and muses, Diane Keaton, Mia. Farrow, full of energetic feminist big women, he himself is just a male diaosi.
But Jasmine was different, she was a defeated goddess, and she was a loser from the very beginning. Kate played the former lady who was brainwashed by the so-called mainstream society's philosophy of success. In addition to the stinky problems of being a lady, her real life was a mess. She was heavily in debt, her husband committed suicide, her son deserted her, and all she wanted to do was lie to continue her lifeless, false prosperity without a soul, and she nearly got a diplomat.
What she considers losers, like the cashier sister and her worker boyfriend, has life and love, and what she has is only superficial glitz, which turns out to be a fantasy and a hoax. Mao had views on intellectuals, and he admired workers and peasants. The strange thing is that in Woody's film, it is also the dwarfs who are placed in his warmth. No matter how vulgar it looks, but they are real, they don't make superficial comments, they only know how to love and live a real life, they don't have so many shackles and restraints, they listen to their hearts.
Kate has grasped that the character's trait is neurotic. When the talker develops to a certain level, they are eager to seek the approval of others, and they are extremely unconfident in their hearts, and the factor for seeking approval from others is the mainstream values of making a fortune, taste and success. In the end, it becomes a neurotic, fragile and sensitive. Looking at the way she is always shivering, especially the character design that takes sedatives when she is nervous, she will be deeply impressed by this feature of her. She said that she had no money and said that all her finances had been confiscated to repay debts, while she still had to take the first-class cabin. Her sister, who was a cashier in the supermarket, only opened her mouth in surprise. While he is already heavily in debt, he has to maintain good taste. This is Jasmine, who is trying to save face and suffer, who has been alienated and completely lost herself.
Naturally, Woody is not such a person. He has always been simple and peaceful. He laughed at people like Jasmine, but it was not just ridicule, but also had deep sympathy. It was a big difference from the glib tongue in youth to old age. Molly is a ridiculous figure, like the usual protagonist in Woody's work, but this time she is given a deeply tragic color.
Neurotic she is pathetic, but also inherently ridiculous. Woody is slapping the middle class again, in a pathetic way. In the same year, "The Wolf of Wall Street" and "The Great Gatsby" were full of money-making fans, but without exception, the result was a life-and-death experience. Is it the anxiety of the whole world that it is born because of money and perished because of money? Woody's protagonist is still discussing existence, still thinking about what is real life, whether it is the living joys, sorrows and sorrows of the younger sister's bottom layer, or the life of Jasmine that is packaged so beautifully but inside is a lie. Both lives have their own rationality, but Woody called Molly a loser this time. In the flashy blockbuster, Woody still presents a sketch, a warm little poem, to another woman, his eternal muse, whose sorrow he understands.
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