As Woody Allen's 44th work, "Anything Goes" has received mixed reviews since its release. The detractors hold high the stick, saying that Woody Allen is finally getting old, and he can only repeat himself if he can't come up with new tricks. This film, which is only relatively new in time, is a hodgepodge of some of his earlier films. Still obsessed with Woody's style, the praiser took him to the altar again, chanting genius and master. Borrowing a glass of wine in the hands of others to pour your heart out is really a labor-intensive but pleasing thing. Whatever you say will do, everyone gets what they need, that's all.
However, having said that, even if you talk again, if you compare yourself with Grandpa Woody, you will immediately find that your tongue is so clumsy. If you don't believe it, you should appreciate Boris's monologue of the century that is enough to make you collapse in the movie. Intensive vocabulary, lightning-fast speech, aggressive aura, let alone an English blind like me, even if you pass CET 6, you may not be able to fully understand what is being said in the movie. So when you watch Woody Allen's film, you have to be very focused, and you have to keep your eyes on the subtitles. If you don't pay attention, you may miss the best part of the whole film.
Plot, shots, even themes, these are not the keys to getting into a Woody Allen movie. He doesn't seem to care about the film language that other directors are talking about, but only uses his own lines to support the whole film and establish his own film kingdom. Talks that seem overly lengthy can sometimes upset you and feel like you're asking for trouble watching such a movie. But when you calm down and think about it for a while, you can't help but smile knowingly, thinking that what this old man said is simply wonderful. Those words seem to have jumped out of your mouth once, but you are only one of the silent majority, the old adage that if you talk too much, you will lose it, you have become accustomed to only talking to yourself, and no longer talking to others casually. people communicate.
Woody Allen seems to be your mouthpiece, boldly saying what you've been meaning to say but haven't been able to. He used jokes, irony and humor to pack the big brick of truth. In your step-by-step life, work, and love, he suddenly jumped out of the alley, and slapped you on the head without saying a word, and knocked you out first. , when you wake up, you will find that not only the emperor has no clothes, but almost everyone is running naked on the street, although they are well-dressed and arrogant. You finally wake up, it turns out that humans are the most shameless animals in the world.
The script of "Anything Goes" was written in the 1970s, and it was finally made into a movie. It was not officially released until the first half of this year. Strip away the film's comedy, love, literature and art, intellectuals, one-liners, cynicism, all kinds of heresy, old and young love, homosexuality, 3P, etc., what is still revealed is Woody's unique language and spiritual core. Although Woody Allen kept pace with the times and added new content such as blacks entering the White House and the Darfur issue in the film, the American media still criticized Woody's film for being too outdated. But as a Chinese audience, I have to admit that our time difference is actually decades behind the United States. The various social phenomena presented in the lines, especially in Boris' monologue, seem to be more in line with our reality. After watching the film, I couldn't help but feel that I had a crush on me.
As the end of the year is approaching, it is the golden period for all kinds of New Year's films to get together. Although "Anything Goes" does not belong to the Lunar New Year file, but we are used to watching Chinese Lunar New Year movies, if we take the time to watch this movie, we may have a different harvest. When a number of directors murder your wallet and brainwash you with their shoddy films in the name of New Year gifts, you will find that "Anything Will Do" is not only a New Year's film with a different style, but more like a piece of Bricks that can wake you up. An old grandpa Woody is still so invincible when he slaps the bricks, and his accuracy and power are not inferior to those IDs on the Internet. The difference is that his tiles are not aimed at one person, but at everyone.
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