Why is Woody Allen's scumbag attributes not annoying? In the call to Hatton, he oscillates between Diane Keaton (Mary) and Tracy. To put it bluntly, he is in the middle of the night, turning his hands into clouds, and covering his hands into rain, but the overall film does not let the audience feel at all. The disgust for him (except for the extreme conservatives), this sense of lightness is first of all the character's absolute perspective on himself. All the characters in the film are completely conscious and self-aware. In the face of love and sexual desire, they know very well. Because of the powerlessness of his own rationality, he then turned to defense as an attack, obeyed the inner call, and at the same time convinced himself to look down on his helpless life from a higher perspective. Compared with those scumbags in domestic comedies, the latter is a slave of desire and abandons morality for the sake of desire, while the former is an tolerant parent who is just tolerant and strives to unify everything about himself as a human being. Attributes, such as sexual desire, such as moral constraints, such as social needs, although the effort is often futile, the process is also endearing enough for the character. The New Yorkers created by Woody are not out of this in human nature, so they can love and kill each other on the same dimension, and interpret the original mundane routine so lightly.
Another key factor is Woody Allen's familiarity with modern culture and art. The film is mixed with a large number of his comments, satires and opinions (spit), although these private goods seem too narcissistic in the eyes of some people, or say too much Self-indulgent, but these dry goods also constitute the skeleton and flesh and blood of the film, and this unique authorship is also what differentiates his work from a large number of other romantic comedies. They keep Woody's trademark rhetoric from being verbose.
In the film, Woody said, "We are all ordinary people, and we are not perfect." He used such an attitude to face the infinite uncertainty in his emotions. Perhaps this is also the charm of the New Yorkers raised in New York. They Dating, they broke up, they cheated, they repented, they just lightly thought that all this is the normal state of human beings, the form of their existence, I just feel that the burden of transmission on our Chinese people is too heavy, and ah Every step we take is too laborious.
Manhattan under big black and white blocks, the sense of absurdity and powerlessness between the sexes, it's all too beautiful...
(I don’t seem to have written much about Manhattan itself. This is my first time writing a film review. It’s a cliché, well, maybe)
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