Woody Allen was one of the famous directors I knew at first, and I didn't pay much attention to it. I didn't know why the name was known. Maybe he was still a famous existence in the circle of friends? As for his movies, I didn't really like anything special before. At first, I watched "Midnight Barcelona" and "Midnight Paris". I was looking forward to it, so I thought I could see something that surprised me even more. "Blue Jasmine" should also be quite satisfactory and not too shocking. Later, when I saw "The End of the Game", I liked him more. 's film. Especially at the end, fate sometimes jokes with people like this. But for this director, there is not much plot, let alone any preference.
To sum up all the Woody Allen films I have seen, I like this Manhattan the most. Black and white films have never been my preference. After all, in this information age, I still feel that color films can give people better movie viewing experience. However, this film contains too much information, and for the first time I felt the talent of this director, his thoughts, and all kinds of exquisite lines, which made me feel that it is time to take a look at Wu Dee Allen's highest rated movies.
Because of the name of this movie and the fact that I just moved to New York, although it is a very bad stage of the epidemic recently, I am still full of expectations for manhattan's life. I have always liked my positive attitude towards these unknown lives. Yearning, as if tomorrow spreads out in front of you like day.
In New York, or about to become a new yorker, I just want to watch this film, which can help me better understand the people and things in this city. However, I don’t think this is a manhattan film. Although there are indeed many unique features of manhattan interspersed in the middle, such as various museums, art galleries, central gardens, and cityscapes, the people outlined in the whole film make the I feel that this is so typical of the reality of the people of the moment, the people around them. Those people and things that are encountered are so similar, or the nature of the people who are essentially hidden behind those things, are so similar.
The 100-minute movie outlines the emotional stories of so many couples of men and women. These people, there is no lack of their own cuteness, their conversations between glasses of wine and walking can be said to be humorous, and their intelligence is so easily on the screen. They emphasize thinking, and you will think that they are indeed thoughtful and independent thinking, of course, this is not unrelated to their occupation, and the identities of the protagonists are novelists. They are friends, and they are attracted to each other, so it seems as if their good and bad are strikingly similar, and contrary to that attractive talent is their naked irresponsibility and self-interest. They are not even clear about their own feelings, so they quickly enter a relationship, sometimes they are the one who loves very much, then in the end the one they love will eventually betray them; and in another relationship, they also It's the one who doesn't love, and then they easily and naturally inflict harm on the other person. So in a short 100-minute movie, what you see are these people who are hurt and hurt. Most of the time, they have two identities, constantly leaving a relationship and entering a new relationship, so there will be an ending. The man played by Dee Allen says, "Six months is too long, six months everything will change." What he's saying is he's afraid she'll change, but the real subtext should be six months, I'll wait Not you. That little girl is the only person in the whole film who is still a little bit principled, although I still can't say how much I like her, maybe I just feel that in her persistent and affectionate relationship, her simplicity reveals a kind of stupidity Bar! "Not everybody gets corrupted. You have to have a little faith in people." It's a good saying, but it's even better because it shows who you are and how you see it this world. So the old saying, "I don't want to change the world, I just hope not to be changed by this world" is actually like "I want to be a good person all my life", it is a very difficult thing.
Throughout the film, you will find that almost everyone is saying seemingly contradictory words in different situations, but in fact, you don't even have to think about it carefully, those seemingly contradictory words are not contradictory, because they all have only one starting point, that is. their own interests. So you will find that they have no principle and no lower limit to constantly overthrow their own remarks, just because at this moment, it is "right" to say so. When people no longer have principles and moral bottom lines, then what they do will be reduced to pure human desire and impulse. Sometimes, I think this is a very scary thing, because I find that many people around me who seem to be highly educated, they are well-dressed and well-mannered, but, at least emotionally, they are more and more This kind of moral fall is swallowed up, and even I sometimes wonder if I have kidnapped my own morality too much in my relationship, which makes me so timid and unable to ask for it. But the consequences of the falling moral bottom line will cause chaos in the emotional world, as shown in this film, hurt and hurt people. People no longer look for one-on-one relationships, they just keep entering and leaving various intimate relationships, and then seize the life-saving straws that can be grasped at the right time, and even have no heart for the rescue of this life-saving straw. grateful. The interesting thing is that when they are in it, it seems that they all like and love. Like Mary said so touchingly after her affair with Eric, "You're not like them, you're the only one who made me think I could have a baby with this guy." Look, those days were peaceful The look, but it is the same face, and I found that I still love Yale. Maybe she received a call from Yale about I miss you, which is already the end of in the expection.
I suddenly found that this argument is very exciting, excerpted here, and found that the above impressions can be said to be a good comment on this paragraph.
"Don't turn this into one of your big moral issues. I am not a saint, okay?"
“But you are too easy on yourself. Don't you see that? That's your whole problem. You rationalize everything. You are not honest with yourself. You talk about you wanna write a book. In the end, you'd rather buy the Porsche. You cheat a little bit on Emily and play around the truth a little with me. You are so self-righteous.”
"We're just people. We are just human beings. You think you're God."
"I got a model myself after someone."
"You just can't live the way you do. It's all so perfect."
“What are future generations gonna say about us? It’s very important to have some kind of personal integrity. I wanna make sure that when I thin out that I am well thought of.”
When Eric accuses Yale from the moral high ground or more of a victim, the most ironic thing is, at the next moment, isn't he the person he accuses?
I've always wanted to be a sober person, and no matter how cruel the reality is, I still want to know the truth. How to choose is my own business, but please don't deprive me of the right to know everything. Seeing the scene where the four people are sitting in a row watching the movie, the embarrassment and confusion of the three people, and the only one who doesn't know, you say, sometimes, is it that you don't know anything, maybe, in a certain sense In terms of happiness? Hehe, the joy of deceiving oneself.
“I knew Yale had affairs. But then, nothing is perfect. Marriage requires some minor compromises, I guess. I am just a non-compromiser. I can’t see that.”
“ I think it's always a big mistake to look the other way. Because you always wind up paying for it in the end anyhow. ”
"I was a little pissed off at you. I figured if you hadn't introduced Mary to Yale, this might have never happened."
This passage, when I first watched it, my first reaction was that it reminded me of the story at the tip of the iceberg around me. As much as I want to wake up, sometimes what we think we know is just the tip of the iceberg. But, on the other hand, is it that the exposed corner can actually allow me to predict the whole picture? At this time, there is a danger of overgeneralizing, so it seems that I live in this world and want to really know the truth. , is a very difficult thing in itself.
Looking at this paragraph again, it made me think about the issue of forgiveness and compromise that I have been struggling with. I don't know how much overlap there is between these two words, because they are somehow interdependent. Sometimes I ask myself, am I not generous enough to forgive? Should I choose to forgive? But I think there is still one step between them. You can emotionally forgive those who hurt you, but live your own life and no longer be tied down by those who hurt you. But the compromise is that I will not only forgive, but I will want the old life to continue, I want and deceive myself in the hope that I can continue to walk with the person who hurt me. Which is also what I think that 17-year-old girl would do, and that's why she sighs why didn't you come here last week? Maybe that's why I don't find her cute. I'm not a fan of compromises, as is best explained by the movie's lines: Because you always wind up paying for it in the end anyhow.
Finally, let’s end with a monologue from the movie!
People in Manhattan are constantly creating these real unnecessary neurotic problems for themselves, because it keeps them from dealing with more unsolvable terrifying problems about the universe.
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