In the 1990s, there was a romantic comedy film in the United States called "Pretty Woman", which tells the romantic love story between the rich man played by Richard Gere and the prostitute played by Julia Roberts, and "A Rainy Day in New York" seems to It's a follow-up to the movie, what happens when the son of a rich man and a prostitute grows up.
Of course, this is just an association when watching Woody Allen's film, but Gatsby, played by Sweet Tea in the film, suddenly reached a reconciliation with his mother after hearing about his mother's true occupation. This plot is quite interesting. . Gatsby's impatient, rebellious, and ironic about his family and his origin at the beginning seemed to be an innate gene hidden in his blood. It's not really relying on one's acquired consciousness to reflect, it's just nature. This kind of nature not only did not detract from him, but probably added a lot of decadent beauty to him. Sweet tea itself is beautiful, I have to say, even if he plays the piano in a low-end bar, he still doesn't look like that. despised. Later, he talked to his girlfriend Ashley about the conversation with his mother. Although he did not explicitly mention his mother's former occupation, he still used an adjective, "very ancient". Yes, the profession of prostitutes did appear very early in human history, and in the early days, this profession was also associated with the word sacred - those women who served gods in temples. Gatsby knows that his mother's profession is despised by modern people, and he uses a very euphemism without lying. It can be said that people without a little culture, at least his girlfriend, can't imagine what he said." What is an ancient occupation".
After knowing his mother's past, Gatsby felt ashamed for what he had done, because all his mother asked him was to get rid of and cover up his unbearable past, Gatsby's various rebellious behaviors Undoubtedly exposing the mother's scars, this kind of injury is obviously extremely immoral. The mother shows her son with practical actions that although her background is not high, no one can see what is wrong with her or her son's background through various educations. The woman who came back could see at a glance that something was wrong with the other party. Obviously, Gatsby didn't expect his mother to see it. However, for a woman from the same background, the mother invited the other party away, so this is really scary Where people like mothers have a deep understanding of the upper and lower classes, they can't be fooled.
It is conceivable that if Gatsby's girlfriend, Ashley played by Fanning was not confused by the film circle, although this is already impossible from the nature of the girl, if she participated in the Gatsby's family At the dinner party, her stupidity may also be euphemistically called innocence. The side of her will definitely be exposed at the banquet. As for the gaffe, it is inevitable, but even if she did not attend the dinner party, she was born in a "countryside" bank with cacti. My daughter also made a fool of herself in New York, which is not the same as the poor boy Jack played by Leonardo in Cameron's "Titanic" teaching a high-class girl to spit and wear a tuxedo at a high-society dance. The provocative meaning of dancing, the love between Jack and Rose is a classic civilian narrative of lower-class men conquering upper-class women, and the general public will look very happy. The upper class has always been the object of irony. They are hypocritical, arrogant, cold Sometimes it's a little stupid, but you must know that works like "Red and Black" and "Jude the Nameless" always say that a lower class who wants to climb up will inevitably perish in the end.
At the end of the film, Gatsby finally broke up with his girlfriend because she didn't understand Shakespeare. Before that, the film has fully demonstrated what a huge gap there is between Gatsby's world and Ashley's world. The words said in front of the director obviously did not touch the director's true heart, and the director who wanted to escape from the world was just because of her name and her innocent and unscrupulous appearance, repeatedly inviting her to enter his own affairs, she It is also easy to be confused by the appearance of a popular male star. In contrast, we see her boyfriend's understanding of this exaggerated actor is more than three-pointed. The terms he said about literature, art, film, architecture, music, and even politics are probably like the things in the niche circles that the male and female protagonists talked about in Yuji Sakamoto's "Love Like a Bouquet", the audience. Not much can be understood. But even if he didn't understand it, he knew that the things he said were unfamiliar to a girl like Ashley. And the girl Gatsby chose in the end would tell him, let's go to the Metropolitan Museum. On the contrary, Ashley can't even remember the names of bars and hotels that her boyfriend mentioned.
The scene of Gatsby getting rid of Ashley is a bit comical, because he is in a panic, and Ashley doesn't understand his reasons. Ashley is also flustered, because it happened so suddenly, she was completely unprepared , and didn't even know the reason, in her case, her boyfriend's eccentricity was attributed to "Asperger's syndrome". You can't fall in love if your three views are inconsistent, and it's normal to break up if your three views don't match. If you accept these theories for granted, you will naturally cover up the invisible ruthlessness and arrogance. In the end Gatsby came to Central Park under the music clock and the girl he was waiting for arrived as expected, usually a scene like this without missing true love should be romantic and touching, but it was very uncomfortable here in Woody Allen . Not only because there was no transition between the previous breakup and the romance here, but also because the hero's rebellion, patience and loyalty collapsed in an instant. He seems to be able to think about everyone and everything in the world, and he understands his mother's origin, but he doesn't think twice about breaking up with his girlfriend.
If Gatsby really rebelled against his family background, what his mother's background brought him should not be reconciliation but real reflection, if he really can't stand Ashley's tacky, then the breakup movie should be It's over, but unfortunately, the story ends in the kiss that Hollywood is never immune to.
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