In the United States under the background of the Great Depression, the people were impoverished, could not find a job, and could not see a way out. The heroine is a waiter in a restaurant. She has to face a boring job during the day to make money, and she has to face an unemployed and rude husband when she goes home. This man is completely dependent on her to support her, but he is not good to her at all. Hit and scold. Because he knew that she could only be with him, and she had no other way out.
The heroine is a young literary woman who likes to watch movies. She is innocent and romantic. She often goes to the cinema alone to watch it over and over again. Even when she is working during the day, she can't help but think about the romantic scenes in the movie and get distracted. Movies are the solace in her boring life, as if facing the screen and entering another world, temporarily forgetting the troubles around her.
One day, while watching the same movie for the seventh time, her favorite male protagonist came out of the screen, he said that he fell in love with her, wanted to be with her, gave her love and romance, was loyal, They shared their feelings and kissed each other in the abandoned playground, which was as beautiful as a movie.
She soon discovered that the person who came out of the screen, although he came to the real world, was still a fictional character. He doesn't need to eat, he doesn't need to sleep, he doesn't know that life needs to make money, his cognition and thinking only stay in the plot of the movie, he is not a real person.
Have we ever had such an experience: when you like a movie very much, you will watch it many times, remember every scene and every line in it, and imagine that you can also live in the world of the movie and become a part of it. People, chat and laugh with them, and have a good time with them.
Director Woody Allen really did just that. Not only did he get the characters in the movie to come off the screen, which wasn't enough, he also got the heroine to go through the screen and into the story she'd dreamed of in the movie. Don't you think so? I will do it for you to see.
Later, the actor who played the character who ran out of the movie also came to this small town. He was afraid that the character he created would be mischievous and cause trouble. He looks just like him, has the same fingerprints and the same face. The actor also pretends to be in love with the heroine, who has seen every one of his movies and is crazy about him. He said he was going to take her to Hollywood, but the heroine had to choose one of these two identical people: a fictional person who ran out of the movie, and an actor who shaped the character in reality. She chose reality and chose to go to Hollywood with him.
However, what is the real reality? When the actor used the heroine to let the fictional person who ran out of the movie come back into the movie, he left impatiently without saying goodbye. What could take her to Hollywood.
Yeah, this is the reality, a rising Hollywood male star would like a married woman working as a waiter in a restaurant in a small town? This is reality.
The heroine ran away from home twice because she couldn't bear her husband, met the man who ran out of the movie for the first time, and spent a romantic time together in her dreams, but found out that he was fiction after all, and she finally had to go home.
The second time I packed up to go to Hollywood with the actor, to a better future, only to find that he had left without saying goodbye, in the first place to take advantage of her.
At the end of the film, the homeless she came to the cinema again, the screen lit up, and the light hit her face, but this time, there seemed to be something more in her eyes, no longer full of desire, and mixed flavors.
When the director made this film, he was telling everyone that the film is actually fake and one-sided, and it can be created and modified artificially. The purpose is to take you temporarily to escape from reality, and use a beautiful world to give you hope and comfort.
Some people say that the appearance of movies prolongs people's lives. You can experience the lives of different people and experience different encounters, but is this really the case?
The essence of all cultures, religions, and arts is ultimately psychological comfort. Because life is always unsatisfactory, poetry and distant places are always more desirable, so in accordance with human nature, humanities and art were born.
Literature and art often make people down, and when they watch too many psychedelic scenes in those influences and stories, they will lose interest and motivation when they look at the boring real world. It is easy to sink and complain if you are not careful.
Woody Allen has seen through this for a long time, and told the literary youth that although it is good to engage in literature and art, it is enough.
This "Cairo Violet" was filmed in 1985, and in 2011, Woody Allen made another "Midnight in Paris" that told a similar story. Even if he understands all these truths, he is still the young man of literature and art. This may be the nature of human beings. However, among the thousands of literary and artistic youths, how many Woody Allen are there? How many art masters are there?
There is a saying that "if you don't go crazy, you can't live". Some people go crazy even if they know they won't survive, and some people go crazy and fail to survive in the end. Whoever makes the choice, who bears the price, has nothing to do with right or wrong.
Speaking of this, I think of a sentence I saw recently: Freedom is that someone can work hard, and someone can dance.
But the reality often backfires, and human nature is jealous and has comparisons.
In the end, the effort of the effort, the dance of the dance, the jealousy of the envy, the comparison of the comparison, all of these together constitute society and life.
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