Woody Allen's [Cafe Society] is a movie that is too suitable to watch before going to bed. It is not long, relaxing and memorable.
This 2016 film, carefully arranged back to Hollywood in the 1930s, has to be amazed and admired by the old man's overall arrangement of the film's set and tone. From beginning to end, the picture is filled with a thick light cream color, It is very similar to the delicate and sticky feelings of people in the movie.
There's a bit of Woody Allen-esque humor in it, and it's really hard to keep nodding without laughing. Not to mention the protagonist, I really like the role of Rose, the mother of the male protagonist Bobby, in the supporting role. It is real in the world. Shouting "No answer is also an answer!" when arguing with her husband. When a person who has spent most of his life praying devoutly every day tells himself that no answer is also a response, he seems to be devoutly believing and accepting any kind of response. The way, it seems that he has already seen what faith is all about, and that makes people feel that this woman is smart, real and lovely. When her Jewish son became a Christian before being executed, she looked up to the sky and sighed, "First a murderer, and now he becomes a Christine. What did I do to deserve this? Which is worse?" The issue of life and death does not necessarily prevail. The pain of losing a child that is about to come to the surface makes people unable to shed tears and can only smile bitterly. Maybe only Woody Allen can do it.
In the storyline, the male protagonist Bobby and his uncle Phil fell in love with Phil's secretary Veronica at the same time. At that time, Bobby was still a confused teenager in Hollywood, and Phil was already a hot agent in Hollywood. After a few very funny back and forth, Veronica chose the uncle and gave up the nephew. At this point, many people will think that the heroine has chosen an older, successful, uncle who keeps Hollywood celebrities in the palm of his hand, and gives up the nephew who is not yet dry, even though affectionate but young and even a little clumsy and rustic, this is A logically simple and reasonable design. But in fact, it can be a little more complicated here, because Phil's sentence, "Timing is everything." Vonnie (the nickname for Veronica) chose Phil over Bobby, not only because Phil was in the upper-class celebrity circle, but he was better than Bobby. To give her a better material life, partly because when Vonnie fell in love with Phil, Phil was still in another marriage, and he was a man who belonged to another woman, the kind of man who can't get it. Feelings played a huge role in Vonnie's decision. Like Phil's rich material base, Vonnie will not necessarily choose Phil if the two are worse than any of them. In the same way, when Vonnie and Bobby meet again, on the one hand, Vonnie is a little tired of the life he has already obtained, on the other hand, today, Bobby has a wife and children, and Bobby has become the "impossible". People, the impulse and spread of Vonnie's feelings flow naturally. The characters are all secondary, and the timeline is so well arranged.
Finally, let's talk about the actors. Two heroines, I read a lot of film reviews that they were written as Twilight Girl and Serena... Kristine Stewart & Blake Lively, they are much more than Twilight and Gossip Girl! I don't want to talk about acting either, I feel like I don't deserve to be judged... I was immersed in their beauty and aura throughout the whole process, and I felt that the frowns and tufts of these two women, every move of their hands and feet, could crush me to pieces. ... as a female viewer, I really love it. The male protagonist, Jesse Adam Elsenberg, is particularly worth mentioning. One is that after he went to Hollywood and returned to New York, two different character postures, from his shoulders, the whole body, to the demeanor and rhythm of his speech, the growth and development of the characters. Metamorphosis, the performance is too expressive. The second point is his blue eyes, the pupils are not big, the eyes flashed but they seemed to be fixed and filmed again, without any plot or lines, if he looked at me with such a pair of eyes, I would know, He is madly in love with me.
The ending of the film, like most of Woody Allen's films, has an open ending. Bobby and Vonnie were thinking about each other on their raucous New Year's Eve. When the New Year's bell rang, one in Los Angeles and the other in New York, separated by the entire continental United States, their pictures overlapped. Under the camera of the old man, that kind of unrestrained and somewhat restrained feeling is really impressive.
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