back to the start

Kristofer 2022-04-23 07:05:12

The whole play of Woody Allen's "Ferris Wheel" makes people feel depressed, and the high-saturation shots switch back and forth between the changes of the follower's plot, telling the story of a reorganized family with such bright colors;

The teenager who set fire to the fire, the daughter who escaped from the underworld, the wife who cheated on him, the husband who lived in a daze, originally thought that there would be a lot of things in the world, no matter how sad or unhappy they were, they would eventually pass;

But this thing did not happen, one hour and 41 minutes; a story, just an episode in the middle, after the episode, life turned back again like the Ferris wheel, and everything went back to its original point.

The arsonist continued to set the fire, the daughter was eventually brought back to the underworld, the husband began to drink alcohol again, and the wife still imagined escaping the family.

We are all passers-by sitting in the Ferris wheel, going around all the time, day after day, sometimes we can see poetry and the distance, and sometimes we have to return to the ground.

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Wonder Wheel quotes

  • [first lines]

    Mickey: [narrating] Coney Island, 1950's. The beach, the boardwalk. Once a luminous jewel, but growing relentlessly seedier as the tides roll in and out. Summers I work here on Bay 7. Comes the fall, I'm a student at New York University going for my Master's in European drama. I'm Mickey Rubin. Poetic by nature. I harbor dreams of being a writer. A writer of truly great plays, so I can one day surprise everyone and turn out a profound masterpiece.

    Mickey: [to the camera] Anyhow. Let me get to the story in which I am a character, so, be warned, as a poet, I use symbols, and as a budding dramatist, I relish melodrama and larger-than-life characters. Enter Carolina...

  • Mickey: [narrating] The kid makes fires. And not such little ones. He played hooky from summer school and even made fires on the beach where it's forbidden. What the hell does the kid see when he just stares into the flames? Is it the eternal power of the universe? The conversion of mass into energy? The Furies at work? Whatever his motive, it is not appreciated.