Starting from "Annie Hall", Woody Allen's emotional comedies have an extraordinary insight into the emotions of modern people. Except for the dark tragic story told in "Match Point", the rest of the films are almost all Using a light comedy to express the dilemmas encountered by modern people in terms of emotions and life, Woody Allen's early performance experience for stand-up comedy has been transformed into the stage-style performance in his films.
In my opinion, Encounter with Strangers is a movie with a strong theatrical style, full of well-planned dialogue long shots and strong theatrical conflict between characters. There are four characters in this story, and the scenes of each character are arranged just right by the director, and the character and psychology of each character are handled quite full and interesting by the director.
The reason why the film is called "Encountering Strangers", I think the director wants to express the changes in the mental state of the characters when their lifestyles or emotions encounter changes. In fact, to put it more directly, this film tells the story of the four characters' derailment. The derailment I am talking about is not just an emotional cheating betrayal, but more of a change in psychology and lifestyle. The two couples in the book, one young and one old, both experienced a breakdown in their relationship, and they both met unexpected strangers, but in fact these strangers turned their lives upside down, so much so that They have been unable to control and arrange their normal lives, and their lives have not come back since they derailed.
The film didn't give us a happy Hollywood-style ending, but ended abruptly without letting us see what fate the characters eventually went to. I think this ending is the most suitable for the story, because Woody Allen is exactly what he wants to express. The uncertainty of that kind of life and the mental state of modern people, the more they live, the more confused they are.
Woody Allen structured his life in an absurd way full of all kinds of coincidences and dramas. He didn't give a solution. He was just reproducing his own thoughts. No one can be a teacher of other people's lives. Woody Allen Lun wants us to know that life is so outside, with other beauty and unexpected tragedy, we can't resist, a movie can't give any answer, its function is to let us discover those accidents that we encounter, So as not to run more and more derailed on the road of life.
It is worth mentioning that the soundtrack of the film is quite enjoyable, playful and cute. The re-interpretation of classical music not only matches the absurd story, but also matches the relaxed rhythm of the film, making the entire viewing process stress-free, as if participating in the movie. An afternoon tea party is average.
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