I only watched the movie once, and I can't say that I have completely digested every detail, but I really couldn't help but want to talk about the feeling of watching it for the first time. I happened to be listening to a song, and by coincidence, the lyrics were somewhat similar to what I felt after reading it, so I used it as the title. There are four scenes in the movie that I remember deeply. The first scene is a picture of the four of them chatting in Elaine's restaurant shortly after the movie started. Yell said: "Art allows us to explore our innermost emotions, so talent is the most precious." (Effect) Isaac disagreed. He said: "The most important thing in life is courage."
To be honest, why I particularly like Woody Allen is precisely because he can always speak to the point in a non-trivial dialogue that I think is very important. Everyone is chasing talent, because talent is innate, it is a completely positive word of praise, and talent is a rare good thing no matter how you look at it. Courage, in comparison, appears to be very nihilistic, because it cannot be defined, let alone quantified. Everyone can be said to have courage: it is courage to skip a class once, courage to report a bad guy on the street, courage when everyone tells lies and you tell the truth, of course it is brave to die in a revolution It is also a kind of courage... Not only that, but courage is not entirely positive, and many times courage can become reckless or stupid without thinking twice. And the courage Woody Allen wants to express obviously needs to be contextualized. What he wants to say is the kind of temperament that people in the city are gradually missing. To put it bluntly, he still peels off his own heart in the movie, and also peels off the hearts of many people. In the brightly lit city, like you and me Small individuals, in order to survive, in order to survive beautifully, strongly support the decency on the surface, but the inside is compromised, weak, and drifting with the flow. The firm courage generated by the real inner strength often becomes a quality more precious than talent, because of scarcity. In the second act, the two of them sat and chatted all night by the Queen's Bridge in the early morning.
When I first saw the movie, I thought it was too beautiful. In a crowded and indifferent city, meeting a person who can chat all night, nothing else, just a spiritual exchange, watching the morning sun pierce the whirling night little by little, gradually floating in the sky, this kind of beauty cannot even be Simply described as romantic. However, Woody Allen's films have never been able to maintain such a beautiful style. Looking at it like this, with the inexplicable trend of the plot, it is gradually discovered that cowardice, lack of self-confidence, pessimism, and suspicion are common problems of urban people, which make the relationship between people fragile and fickle. Suddenly, even such a moment, the memory is a little mixed. After all, there is no fairy tale in the city, and there is no pure and unchanging beauty. (I can't help but complain about myself, pessimism has been implanted in the bone marrow, but if it were me, this moment would definitely be remembered for a lifetime. Such a beautiful communication is a kind of clarity that cannot be erased no matter what happens later. Act III, Isaac learned about the relationship between Mary and Yell, and went to question Yell's conversation. Isaac said, "The biggest problem with people like you is that you are too easy to forgive yourself, and you are always looking for yourself. A lot of excuses, saying that I want to write a book, but I ended up using the money to buy a sports car. You lied to Ellie and came to me to confess. The next minute you have other new tricks, and we don’t even know that you were sold by you. "Yer said, "You're so self-righteous, we're just normal people."
I don't know why, but this dialogue and the courage part are just as poignant to me. Probably, like him, I am often self-righteous and feel that many things will not change. However, many things, different people and your own bottom line are different. And, frankly, in different situations, we may be Isaac, and more likely we will be another Yael who is easy to forgive himself. Therefore, we cannot ask others, because strictly speaking, we ourselves are not saints. At this time, Isaac's mood was probably one. He originally thought that everything that happened around was under his control, but in the end he realized that he had already changed the world. Speaking of which, it almost echoes a scene before the movie. Isaac said angrily: "The building is going to be demolished, I used to call on people to resist it, lie under the building trying to stop them from demolishing it, and a policeman stepped on my hand, alas, this city is crazy It's gone!" How fast the city has changed, how fast the people have changed, you don't want to change yourself, but you are still changing step by step. There are risks in loving someone and a city. Since you choose to love, you probably have to endure this kind of pain and emptiness. The fourth act, the one everyone loves so much, ends with what the 17-year-old girl said to Isaac who turned back to her.
To be honest, that's not what I expected. According to the common sense of dog blood, I thought that when Isaac came back to her, she probably left with others. Because even if she did, there is nothing wrong with it, there is nothing wrong with it. Repeatedly, overthrow the concept that he once swore, and the coward who returned to the original point is Isaac himself. I originally thought that this pessimistic story would end in a more mourning and tragic way. But Woody Allen borrowed this girl to bring the ultimate mocking effect. In a straightforward way, people suddenly feel ashamed and suddenly realize, oh, it turns out that we are not as firm as a girl who is so much younger than ourselves, trusting neither others nor ourselves. So, should we give ourselves an opportunity to others? Someone has to start this first. —————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— So much is actually written as a diary. I want to remind myself to keep a pure heart at all times, and a strong heart is given by myself at any time.
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