A "model board" in the flow of history

Benjamin 2022-08-03 16:57:24

The difference between genius and talent is probably that the former is that God bestows you a kind of thinking skills, while the latter is that God only bestows you an inspiration. Woody Allen is obviously the former. This film is definitely worth watching many times. It is like a balloon that gradually swells, allowing you to pierce it completely from any angle of any dimension. The gas inside it has enough power to completely rush out at a certain puncture point. The documentary also has its own concept. , Attitude and right to speak. In my opinion, this is not an anti-documentary but a meta-documentary, which uses the fiction of the story to reveal the "documentary truth". Since the documentary is one-sided, fictitious, and ideological, why not face this deception honestly and make Does it fulfill its true mission?

The tension of the film narrative is constructed in the complexity of the event itself. Each shot and soundtrack cleverly bridges the gap between the lines, placing the individual and history in the binary opposition of space but forming a logical unity in time. The "chameleon" disease allows the protagonist to be everyone, but he is still an individual. In this way, the individual is abstracted into a symbol, a symbol, and at the same time a symbol with emotional ability and speaking ability, and he swims with the individual. The various stages of life travel through various stages of history, and travel through different spaces in the world. Such a moving soul is given a corresponding meaning through continuous attachment, and the real sense of the absurd personal resume comes from these attachments. Come.

Everything you want to express blooms in the richness of "people". You can think of it as a resistance of human love to the world, and you can regard it as a challenge to the whole society by personal words. Think of it as the perfect shaping of men by women (women dominate men) and disguised achievements (women have accomplished both the self and the other). You can regard it as a concerto of joy and sorrow for individual life and the laws of history. You can think of it as an independent appearance in a documentary, you can regard it as a pioneer who exposes ideals. Let us walk on the imaginary right path and forget that pioneer is an eternally reactionary reflection book... Many interpretation spaces are intertwined in a complete film structure full of holes but so self-consistent. It only gives you the opportunity to interpret it as a whole, because you will find that every detail is a powerful irony of one-sided understanding. I really can't think of a reason not to praise it. After all, its romantic and humorous picture makes it so suitable for you to use it as an after-dinner entertainment.

In my opinion, it seems more suitable for Woody Allen’s appetite to interpret the ambiguous relationship between personal discourse and historical laws mentioned earlier. After all, the charm of love in the face of history, and the challenge of women to men are integrated in the personal and social (human The connection with people) is constantly being raised as specific questions. Can an individual put aside his personal history? can not. Can society escape its own history? The same can't. But in the grand cheers of the crowd at the end, and under the immense power of love, I saw a perfect result deviating from the original purpose. We have become some kind of political correct callers in our self-realization, so the two protagonists finally turned into a "model board" of the times in the pursuit of "for self".

When the pursuit of independence becomes a flattery to the public, everything is quietly going to the opposite side in self-realization. In the alternation of the "self-oriented" and "public-oriented" of the story itself, we seem to foresee that the story is far from over, the wheel of history Will never stop rolling past every individual, every "chameleon", what choice will we make between the past and the future? Will the future era be Win Tun’s victory or a radical victory? Although all this is incomprehensible, it will become a history of those who stand taller in the future, to play around and laugh at.

Woody Allen’s irony is when you see that a certain problem is imaginatively solved in one era, and then raised again in the next historical stage. They are constantly changing but never changing its quality. Where will our feet go? The answer may be a place we can't help but step towards. Can you think of what a terrible thing this is?

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Zelig quotes

  • Leonard Zelig: [in a hypnotic trance] My brother beat me. My sister beat my brother. My father beat my sister and my brother and me. My mother beat my father and my sister and me and my brother. The neighbors beat our family. The people down the block beat the neighbors and our family.

  • Leonard Zelig: I'm 12 years old. I run into a Synagogue. I ask the Rabbi the meaning of life. He tells me the meaning of life... But, he tells it to me in Hebrew. I don't understand Hebrew. Then he wants to charge me six hundred dollars for Hebrew lessons.