London, Barcelona, Paris, and now Rome, it may be said that the profound literature and art of Europe have attracted the old man, but his true love has always been New York, and this will not change. Filming in Europe is just because the marketable Hollywood is sometimes too stingy. He thinks that his movies are not profitable or profitable. Some people in Europe donate generously, so why not do it, classify Europe and play up his comedy as he pleases. For Woody Allen, the location of the story has never been an obstacle to creation. Anyway, it is turned upside down, the core is basically the same, and it has always presented various forms of love, marriage, family, fame and fortune. With the new location, the cultural differences between Europe and the United States have become a more convenient source of jokes.
"Love in Rome" is composed of four stories, entered from the eyes of a beholder, and the four narrative lines are staggered, independent and blending naturally. Don't worry about his narrative ability, his storytelling skills are too proficient. The opening is a typical Woody Allen approach. The character is facing the camera, that is, speaking to the audience. This seems a bit lazy and clichéd, and the main content of the following is not dry. He repeats this in many movies. The moves are not irritating.
In the four stories, there are two pairs of young people's love and cheating. Woody Allen does not believe in love. He believes in human nature. Human nature is uncertain. As Flaubert said, people never know what their exact needs are. Simple people may be attracted when they encounter tastes outside of their own experience, and they may be confused. From the first work to the present, it is hard to count the cheating and divorce cases he has created in the movie. What about the divorce? The next paragraph may be the true love that can reach the end of life. The old man is not all pessimistic and desperate, and he also has a lot of happy endings.
"Encountering a Stranger" filmed in London, probably because of the terrible weather in London, there is a pessimistic mood in the shell of the film's comedy. At the end, the life of the characters in the film is terrible and full of danger of breaking up. In essence, Woody Allen is a pessimist. He has spent his entire life using comedy to escape the troubles of pessimism, satire, self-deprecating, nagging, and exhausted his negative emotions in every way. Fortunately, there is enough sunshine in Italy, Rome is a comfortable city, "Love in Rome" is 50-50, sorrow and joy intersect, and the tone is a downright comedy.
An Italian who is engaged in the funeral industry can only sing a wonderful opera in the shower, with a shower head on tour, he sings in the shower on the stage, and there is warm applause from the stage after singing. Roberto Bernini, the director and lead actor of "Life is Beautiful", plays an ordinary Italian who suddenly becomes a celebrity one day. The media flocks to him. Later, tired of celebrity life, he returns to civilian life again, and misses the short-lived life. Celebrity career, scratching his head on the street but no one takes care of it. Woody Allen shows no mercy to the banter of fame and fortune and intellectuals. He has done this many times, and he has also filmed a "Celebrity Hundreds", which ridiculed celebrities' lives.
It's easy to enter the world of Woody Allen's movies. I used to watch it for a while, because it was wonderful, tempted a greedy appetite, eating too much, resulting in indigestion, I feel that he repeats too much, and it is unavoidable to be aesthetically tired. Now follow his speed, one every year, it is easier to remember his wonderful and lovely meanness. In "Love in Rome", he borrowed an opera director to teach himself, fearing death like most people, and relying on work to resist the old man's fear of death. No matter how cynical he was in the interview, how he concealed himself, saying that he entered the movie circle only for women and fame, his love for movies cannot be concealed. He couldn't escape the movie. Someone remembered his movie. Together, they left Rome on the "Woody Allen" train and drove to the next stop.
■ "Beijing Youth Daily"
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