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Kiera 2022-04-19 09:01:42

The old man must also feel that his love for New York's contradictions is better expressed in this way than in the didactic prose language of the title.

People in Manhattan are constantly creating unnecessary neurotic problems for themselves. Because it keeps them from dealing with more unsolvable terrifying problems about the universe. It has to be optimistic. Why is a life worth living. That's a very good question.
Groucho Marx, Willie Mays, Jupiter Symphony's second movement, Louie Amstrong recoding Potatohead Blues, Swedish movie, sentimental education by Faubel, Marlon Brando, Frank Sinatra, incredible apple and pears by Cezanne, the Crabs at Sam Woo's, Tracy's face.

"Six months you will change. You will be a completely different person. "
"Six Months isn't so long. Not everybody got corrupted. You have to have a little faith about people. "

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Also, some critics have interpreted Woody Allen's film as a satire on some middle-class and intellectual stance, and I think that's only part of it. He inserts this simple sarcasm into small roles for entertainment. But with the main characters, they're actually quite candid, they know they're just people, they're not gods, and they say that people can't do what they once claimed. They admit to using these high-sounding reasons to cover up their cowardice until they contradict themselves. This is what Woody Allen wants to discuss, this is the real person, why is it ironic

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  • Yale: You know we have to stop seeing each other, don't you.

    Mary Wilke: Oh, yeah. Right. Right. I understand. I could tell by the sound of your voice on the phone. Very authoritative, y'know. Like the pope, or the computer in 2001.

  • Isaac Davis: You know what you are? You're God's answer to Job, y'know? You would have ended all argument between them. I mean, He would have pointed to you and said, y'know, "I do a lot of terrible things, but I can still make one of these." You know? And then Job would have said, "Eh. Yeah, well, you win."