The afternoon when I am in love with Rome watching the Woody Allen movie is a perfect afternoon. It's an annual gathering again. There is "To Rome With Love", which is the final return of his European trilogy. It is not so much a love letter written by the director to Europe, but rather a postcard sent back by an old friend on the way to Europe. I didn't ask others to watch it together. I was alone in the theater just to concentrate on reading the old man's light and shadow notes.
The film is 107 minutes long, like old friends gathering, talking about turning ordinary into a funny joke, discussing the common problems in Woody Allen's film: love, betrayal and destiny. The film is divided into four stories. The middle-aged American architect returns to his hometown, as if he saw himself before, and met a young architecture student's friend who fell in love with his girlfriend. Therefore, he has to make choices in daily life and passion, and once again witness the helplessness of love; A middle-class Roman resident with a rigid life wakes up to the surprise that he has become a famous person in Rome. The irony is that the media makes a fuss and promotes small people and the mediocre people follow. It is ridiculous that people want to return to peace after becoming famous, but they are well-known after being calm. It is the admiration of fame and wealth; a newlywed couple has an affair in Rome, it is sexual desire that dominates the derailment, even if the bird is tired, it is also a qualitative relationship; the retired American theater director is committed to turning the funeral home owner into an opera singer , But because the boss can only sing in the bathroom, he moved the bathroom to the theater. After all, it was ridiculous to point out all this.
The architect and the newlyweds talk about love in the theme, and it is retrospective on the timeline. Love must have regrets in essence. Looking back later, there will always be a little missing. You can choose one better, or the present one, two. The stories are designed to fill the lack of love; middle-class residents and funeral home owners are fame and fortune in the theme, but forward in the timeline. Fame and fortune make people move forward. For a better future, ordinary people are hyped by paparazzi. The superstar, not aware of it at first, and finally enjoying it, the more he loses his form, he will nostalgic for the moment when the light is no longer and if he is lost, the private car driver clearly said in the morning: "Being a celebrity is more written than an ordinary person", but the heart is disturbed, the owner of the funeral home After the performance of the song, Ming Chengli chose to only love his own business, because he understands that glory has no eternity. Woody Allen's comedy is also making sense.
Dialogue is also a typical joke of intellectuals, playing with Jungian psychology, Italian opera, and architecture is the old man’s habit. The play is slightly inferior to "Midnight in Paris", but it is still gratifying for the old man to act in person as a neurotic musician and director. It reminds me of the appearance of the old Alvy Singer in "Annie Hall", obsessed with the same aesthetics. The angle, and the leftist tendency of her daughter’s lover, and the critical character of when and where, has remained unchanged for 35 years.
It's not only watching the theater, but also gathering the old. Listening to the director talking and laughing, if you explain the recent situation, talk about what books you recently read and what music you listened to, then the show is over, and I have to wait for the gathering again next year.
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