think about it

Colten 2022-04-22 07:01:09

Woody is always thinking about problems, writing scripts, saying lines, and filming himself. The first time I saw his movie, I would think about how this man talks so much. What did I want to express? Later, because of the shock that "Annie Hall" brought to me, I seemed to understand a little bit, and that point was inexplicable. Because it seems that Woody has been asking questions, and there is no answer in the question, and it seems that he does not know the answer himself. Just like in this movie, when 17-year-old Tracy said he loved him, he said how young you are and you don’t even know what love is. I’m over forty and I don’t even know what love is. But at the end of the movie, when Tracy asked Woody again if he loved her, he said of course he did, but what happened to them? Not only did he experience nothing, but Woody fell in love with another woman. So what is love, and who does he love? It doesn't really matter, right, but it's a lot like our lives. I have seen all kinds of couples in my life, those who fell in love with their ex and immediately fell into a new relationship after breaking up, never cared about the heartbreak of their ex and completely immersed themselves in the new relationship. Once the new relationship is broken, they will immediately think of their ex. Yes, I feel that I love my ex so much, or my ex is better. But when you're with someone else, you really don't think about your ex at all. Just like when Woody and Mary were together, they didn't think about Tracy, but when they were apart, they felt that the days with Tracy were the happiest. This feeling is really hard to define. It seems too easy for us to define the emotions of the moment as permanent. Seeing that because of Tracy's sentence "You should have hope for adults" at the end, it makes people feel as if the whole movie is talking about how their adults are mature and how they think about art and philosophy, but they are not as clear as a naive child. Or that life is not so bad.

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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."