Sweet tea is really handsome. His retro curly hair and plaid suit make him look casual and stylish. In contrast, the heroine's blue-green sweater and grass-green skirt look a bit rustic.
At the beginning, the background of the two people is more clearly contrasted through just a few sentences of dialogue, "win 20,000 dollars playing poker" "live in a hotel in the city center, the room can see Central Park, we can play here A bar with a pianist and Broadway music." "It's New York"
The male protagonist Gatsby and his friends are like people from a completely different world. Their conversations all take place in the upper world, and the people around them are "elites" from very good backgrounds. All the arrangements they talk about are Sophisticated high-end living.
My favorite scene is the one where Gatsby and Akane are kissing in the car, their faces looming through the reflective glass, and the charming jawline of Sweet Tea is all the more charming in the glass.
On a rainy day in New York, the sun is intertwined with the rain and holding an umbrella in such rain is also a wonderful way to enjoy New York.
"We should be sitting in the ferry this rainy day, or at the top of the Empire State Building."
And Ashley is like a typical little white rabbit who cheated into the high society of New York. She is pure and vain, and she is deceived by the so-called high class in Hollywood. Indulging in sweet talk but turning a deaf ear to her boyfriend's painstaking plans. Although it is considered high society in other states, it is not enough to see in New York. All the people around Gatsby don't like his girlfriend very much.
I have to say that Woody Allen really has a good set of aesthetics for the film. In the soft orange-yellow light, Sweet Tea plays a mahogany antique piano and sings slow and soft songs. So beautiful.
There are probably only these types of people in this film, rich Wen Qing, poor Wen Qing, arty directors and real upper class people. The movie seems to be a brutal debunking of the fact that there are barriers between classes, and that Gatsby's falling in love with Ashley was just an accident, an accident that can't even be called love. They do not accept that the other person is different from their own identity.
I think they broke up not because of that actor, but because they were not of a world. Ashley was fooled around by their sweet words, almost the joke of the whole high world. She thought she was favored by the actor, but turned out to be a "third party" who was kicked out of the room naked.
The dialogue at the end of the film is more like a forced respect, saying that the male protagonist's parents are his own entrepreneur and his mother is just a sleeping girl, but it is more like a forced explanation for the protagonist's prodigal son to go back and marry the person he arranged.
"The foggy New York City, doesn't it feel more like it?" "It's rare to make a carriage, but it's raining."
In an almost ironic way, the male protagonist drove away the pure and vain Ashley and bid farewell to the idle self. This love that is not a world has finally come to an end
Finally, when Gatsby waited for Akane under the musical clock, I knew that they were the soul of a world, and finally came together.
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