If you have three choices, one is 100% chance of getting 10 yuan, the other is 10% chance of getting 100 yuan, and the third is 1% chance of getting 1,000 yuan, which one would you choose?
Vonnie chose Phil, the all-powerful, charismatic, suave, successful man admired by movie stars in Hollywood, over the young ardent suitor Bobby. Phil abandons his smart, loyal wife, Warren, with whom he has children, for Vonnie, a beautiful secretary who falls in love at first sight. Woody Allen's extensive fact-based narrative only tells us that feelings don't come first.
Bobby returned to Manhattan with emotional intelligence, and ran Cafe Society, a celebrity-filled bar full of dog blood and routines: Wall Street elites married auto tycoon heirs, and were mistakenly killed as deer while hunting; stockbrokers Marrying a city hall clerk and cheating on his wife and best friend; a playboy and an underage dancer getting married, and so on. At the moment, Bobby, the bar owner, has become sleek and delicate. Veronica, a blond beauty with all kinds of charm, naturally goes up to chat, listen to jazz, go to the park, and drink afternoon tea. After a meal, Bobby also lived a seemingly happy married life. However, the passion gradually receded, and it was inevitable to complain with acquaintances at the bar that "there is only one diaper when I come home every day", and the charm of my wife is no longer.
Los Angeles girls and New York guys will meet one day.
On this day, Phil and Vonnie came to New York on a business trip and walked into the bar run by Bobby. Bai Yueguang Vonnie and Bobby, the once infatuated boy, met like this. At this time, they have all changed. A girl who originally pursued a simple life has learned to drop names in social occasions, while a once dull and introverted teenager has also learned to exchange cups with celebrities and politicians.
Bobby felt guilty for reviving his old relationship with Vonnie, and bought his wife a bunch of roses when he came home. Ironically, when Phil fell in love with Vonnie, Phil also risked being discovered by his wife. Vonnie, the lover at the time, sent 100 roses.
During the New Year, Bobby in New York and Veronica in Los Angeles were distracted by chance. Woody Allen didn't even make it clear whether the two of them thought of each other, and only two people stared blankly into the distance.
Obviously, Los Angeles is not only Hollywood, and New York is not only Manhattan. In those places, there are not so many beauties, celebrities, stars, and there are not so many shit and routines. It's a pity that people who hated vulgar and frivolous money when they were young ended up living a life of secularism.
I guess when Bobby asked Veronica if anyone called her Vonnie, he also thought of Vonnie, the young girl he met in Los Angeles when he was young, and the two of them looked around in front of the big houses of the rich people and went to the small restaurant to complain together. Celebrity gossip, together they agreed to have a candlelight dinner in a humble motel. However, it wasn't Vonnie who came to the motel that night for dinner, but Vonnie, who was sadly looking for a spare tire after being dumped by Phil. Bobby's white moonlight is not Vonnie, but the self who fell in love with a simple, beautiful and passionate girl for no reason when she was young. When you have changed, what right do you have to ask others to be the same TA?
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