What kind of sweet romance is this, it’s a Woody Allen version of "Growth Education".
I met a girl born in a middle-class family, and I have met the son of a local rich man since kindergarten. The boy is the heir of the city’s top 10 chaebol, but it does not prevent the two from loving each other and being close to each other since the age of 5. The love affair is so beautiful that it can be called the Chinese version of "stunned." But after graduation, the man, due to the intervention of his parents, eventually broke up with the girl for extremely bad reasons after several disturbances. After half a year, he turned around to marry the daughter of another rich local family and have children.
Another acquaintance girl grew up in a broken, complicated and poor family environment. However, because of her outstanding appearance and being "educated" by her mother for many years, she has been working hard to find and marry the rich, and the nouveau riche No, because they think they are vulgar; neither are potential stocks, because they cannot accept people who have suffered from the "psychological shadow" of poverty. It must be the "second generation of officials" with huge families and wealthy generations. First love was dedicated to a boy of the same age who drove a "low-key" BMW. Within a month, he discovered that the other party had a well-matched girlfriend, and his appearance was not inferior to her. Over the past few years, several qualified boys really fell in love with her for a while, but in the end they all broke up with reasons such as "like others" or "something happened at home, and there is no way to determine the future for you in the short term".
I have seen more than 10 works by Mr. Woody Allen. My favorite is this unpopular "A Rainy Day in New York". Probably because I know too many girls like the heroine Ashleign Enright, who mistakenly regarded the "whipness" of another man from another class as "sincere", wandering in the praise and obsession after drunk for a long time. But they never thought that they were just their arty, fame and fortune after-dinner refreshment, and they didn't even want to give more time to chew, and they would forget it after eating, and they couldn't even call it a trophy. What about the ignorant but vain girl? Like the heroines, they sat aside in surprise and joy, "I can tell the future generations about the romantic story with this successful man in the future."
In the first 5 minutes of the movie, the male and female protagonists under the TB setting are obviously not on the same channel. Gatsby from Old Money in New York heard that he could spend the weekend with Ashleigh in Manhattan. What he found was Carlyle and Pierre Hotel, the hard-to-find musical Hamilton, and his mother’s big annual fall gala, by Ludwig Bemelmans old New Murals in York style, photographs by Weegee of MoMa Museum of Modern Art... And Ashleigh, a wealthy and upstart from the Bank of Arizona, couldn’t resonate with everything he said, except for the conversation on different channels under his embrace like an outsider, "Just like you It’s going to cost a lot of money.” “I’ve only been to New York twice. What impressed me most was that I was able to buy platinum bags and Rolex watches for 200 dollars at the stall there...”
This is not a romantic movie, but another "growth education" with Woody Allen's witty humor and a conscious experience for viewers. The innocent and vain Ashleigh has entered a dreamlike metropolis for her, where she has seen celebrities that she can only see on TV, experienced the plot she thought can only be experienced in movies, and completely forgot her original intention — to become a one The Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter turned a deaf ear to her boyfriend and his troublesome arrangements in the name of work. Relying on her youthful beauty, she shuttled between luxury restaurants and celebrity parties. Under the dim and ambiguous lights, she indulged her vanity and ignorance in the name of drunkenness until she woke up in the middle of the night and the male star’s genuine girlfriend came home early. At the door.
But unlike "Growing Education", Old Woody doesn't bother to preach, he wants to present the naked reality to everyone in his own way. Thousands of young girls who are full of fantasies about the future and longing for another world that has never been involved, probably one who can rein in the cliff like Jenny in "Growth Education", stop losses in time, and wake up to life is already very good. Now, it's more like Ashleigh. Even after the boyfriend Gatsby, who once really loved her for a short time, said goodbye to her, she was still worried that it was about to rain. It is conceivable that in the next many years, she will talk to countless friends and even strangers who have only met a few times, just like Gatsby recounting what happened the previous day in the morning. I fell in love with her on the same day, and for more years in the future, I will tirelessly pursue the imaginative refreshing feeling of a "princess" under the spotlight. On the other side of reality, those men, even her name, hadn't been memorized seriously.
Romance is not a fantasy, but in a colorful world, to recognize another reality across classes requires a person to have enough connotation and clear self-knowledge. This is really not easy. But Gatsby's mother did it.
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