Woody is as productive as a sow, an old man in his 80s, and one movie a year, many directors can't match. Talent really isn't blown out, you can only talk about your works. The key is to maintain the level. Here, I sincerely hope that the old man can live a long life and create more dreams-listening to him endlessly is one of my only pleasures in recent years.
Before I could review his last film a second time, "A Rainy Day in New York" was released again.
Old Allen is a master at creating romance. He often uses only one set of long borders and one continuous image to create a heart-warming atmosphere for the audience. The street scenes in "Manhattan" and the rain scenes in this film present the moving parts of New York City at a glance. Of course, if your memory is not too bad, you can still think of his Paris, smoky taverns, handsome men and beautiful women, quiet midnight streets, flowing literary rivers and lakes... romantic and poetic. Only in Paris, only in Paris, could this American find his nostalgia, Hemingway and Fitzgerald.
Of course, romance is only an addition, and "romance" is used to pierce human nature - a seemingly beautiful love only needs a rainy day to shatter.
"Romantic" is always so "romantic", but reality is always the same.
I suspect that Gatsby played by Sweet Tea in this film is a projection of old Woody's self. He loves this city and denies all seemingly upward values. He has a natural intuition for art, an infinite yearning for pure love, and a Keep a sneer at the real world.
The story is very simple, Gatsby and Ashley are a young student couple, and their families seem so well-matched, Gatsby is a literary youth, romantic, decadent, and has nothing to do, Ashley looks beautiful, innocent, and innocent. Harmful, but ambitious, wanting to make a career. One weekend, while they are vacationing in Manhattan, Ashley meets her beloved director Roland and screenwriter Ted, and by accident, they get a chance to be alone with the big star, Francesco. Gatsby met Akane while acting as an extra.
The older Alan gets, the more he returns to the basics in his artistic creation. He is too lazy to make up complicated stories, he just needs to convey his own value through stories - even that value is vague, society is very simple, and it is people who are complicated, he just needs to lay out people's desires for you to examine, for You think, as for how to choose, Old Allen does not intend to give you any advice.
This movie looks like a comedy, but it has a serious core, and that core is "who am I, where did I come from, and where do I go", old Allen continued with his consistent sarcasm, he told you that high society is so boring , The entertainment industry is so unbearable, everyone has an unknown secret - so beautiful and moving on the surface, but as long as it is pierced, dirt and pus and blood will flow all over the floor.
You see, Ashley plans to sleep with celebrities as soon as her heart is alive; Gatsby's mother actively participates in literary and art parties, but was actually a sex worker in the past; the director is depressed and irritable, like a disgraced child; The screenwriter controls the life and death of the characters in the play, but can't face the cheating of friends and wives; you see, the big stars are handsome and handsome, but they are stealing away from their girlfriends...
At the end of the movie, Gatsby said to Ashley, you like sunshine, but I like rain in this city, we are not suitable. He jumped out of the carriage, ran back into the rain, and waited for Akane's arrival. Finally, the two kissed in the rain - only at this moment, I believe that old Allen finally became romantic in luxury. That moment was really touching. Old Allen, the old man who was riddled with negative energy, once again had positive energy. In the face of the chicken feathers in life, he bravely used "romance" to fight back powerfully.
Those superficial beauty needs to be pierced and stared - until we dare to face the reality, like Gatsby's mother, to speak out the unbearable in the heart.
However, my wishful interpretation is likely to be ridiculed by Old Allen, as he often said to others, "You didn't understand my movie."
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