"The Unreasonable Man" indeed exudes an aura of "irrationality" all over the body. Woody Allen, who is good at telling philosophy as a joke, invited Jackie Phoenix, who seemed to be indifferent to everything, and made him a sloppy philosophy teacher in a fictional college. Different from the image of an intellectual who ran the train with his mouth full of self-confidence in the early movies, Abel played by Jacques Phoenix is full of self-denial emotions. The beginning of the movie is filled with this kind of disgusting negative energy. Jackie Phoenix, who just appeared on the stage, seemed to have just ran out of the set of "The Evil of Nature", and he could still smell the smell of marijuana all over his body. However, his dignity aroused the interest of the two women around him, and Woody Allen's affair with men and women also kicked off.
·The fruits of love for unreasonable people.
In the last movie "Magic Moonlight", Emma Stone and Colin Fels, dressed in retro costumes, did not spark any sparks in the beautiful scenery of Southern France. Fortunately, this time playing with her fellow Americans on the same stage, Sister Stone finally recovered the youthful and impulsive temperament of college girls.
Woody Allen timely turned his new muse into a smart philosophy student, Jill, who was born in a family of scholars and enjoyed the luxuries of life. And a woman who is exquisite and elegant on the surface and maverick in her heart has achieved a platonic relationship between teacher and student. "The Unreasonable Man" uses the protagonist and heroine to citing scriptures, turning the philosophical speculations of Kant, Kierkegaard, and Sartre into light life sentences, throwing out esoteric topics about existence, morality, and inevitability. . Like any of Woody's works, these few words are intended to inspire a humorous atmosphere, but they did not make this teacher-student love get rid of the vulgar vulgarity. The addition of voice-over adds a touch of affection to the film, but it only stops at the function of promoting narrative. In contrast, another scene in the movie is much more interesting, in which Abel’s lonely female colleague Rita takes the initiative to give her arms in order to escape the tedious marriage life. Percy Posey's performance is full of nervous tension, and despair gushes out. If you want to select the most convincing "irrational man" in this movie, Percy Posey may not lose to Jackie Phoenix.
·A (not) publicized murder case
lingers in the two-line narrative vortex of two emotional dramas for half of the play, but the story of "The Unreasonable Man" suddenly becomes interesting because of the occurrence of a murder case . Occasionally in the fast-food restaurant, he heard that the lady next to the table was treated unfairly by the judge in a divorce case, and Abel quickly germinated the idea of replacing the heavenly road and eradicating the judge. Even with clichéd tricks, Abel, who had no motive for committing the crime, stayed away for a while. Holding high the banner of justice, the nihilist Abel finds a goal in life, but Jill's life is completely disrupted. The unmotivated plot took a sharp turn, and the connotation of the word "irrational" in the title of the movie was appropriately placed. Although it brought a momentary shock to the audience immersed in the narrative of love, the desire to make the truth come to light helped the director. Promote the movie to the end. The audience with an omniscient perspective, as if Woody had realized the arranged God, watched the event step by step into an irreversible mess.
A seemingly act of punishing evil and promoting good, but because of the absurdity of killing people, all the legitimacy was eliminated. This segment full of black humor directly inherits Woody Allen's consistent contempt for "justice". However, in "The Unreasonable Man", the suspense of the murder case is no longer a source of fear and anxiety, and Abel's convincing and rational gesture adds a comedy color to the film. His unreasonable actions were not the only shock that Woody Allen brought to the audience. The Hitchcock-style plot reversal at the end of the film more successfully caused the audience to scream with smiles. This scream probably contained With the following complex emotions: the admiration of the aforementioned plot line, the regret that the story came to an abrupt end, and the amazement that Woody Allen finally showed a certain critical color.
For Woody Allen fans, "The Unreasonable" is an extremely suitable movie to watch. It has the director’s consistent and iconic style and can mobilize all wonderful reveries in the process of watching the movie. At the same time, it also Slightly beyond the boundaries of his original creation, he wandered through moral conventions more skillfully and cunningly. Although compared with the earlier classics, "The Unreasonable Man" is quite light in texture, but as the movie suggests, there are all kinds of life, but a game and a dream, Bo Jun smiles, why take it seriously.
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In recent years, Woody Allen, who has been filming at a speed for almost a year, has a vigorous creative experience that is hard to match with directors of his generation. Although he is nearly 80 years old, he admits that he can no longer remember every movie he has made, but this does not prevent the audience from looking back at the familiar "Woody" moments when watching "The Irrational". Emma Stone continues to be a "dangerous relationship lover" in "Magic Moonlight" and continues to have a love affair with the middle-aged uncle; the suspenseful murder plot seems to return to the "passionate killing" crime scene in "The End of the Game" ; The recurrence of "existentialism" propositions adheres to the ambiguous duality in "Love and Sin". The jazz masterpiece "The'In' Crowd" that is endless in the movie, appeared on the stage in "Non-Strong Aphrodisiac" as early as 1965. This time it was reloaded and the swing rhythm made people's hearts radiate. The old-school and unruly Woody Allen satirized intellectuals all his life without feeling tired. His endless sketches have also stirred the audience's nerves to laugh in the rounds of language games.
July 2015 "Global Screen"
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