After experiencing "Deep In My Heart", "Sisters of Hannah", "Sentimental September Day", "Another Woman", Woody finally took a less "Bergman" work, "Alice "born. "Alice" joins Woody's previous comedy-style soundtrack, with the help of some magical methods to tell the story, and the tone of the whole movie becomes slightly comical and magical. Its overall style is most similar to the previous "Purple Rose of Cairo". Woody gave the upper-class housewife Alice the "invisibility", "flying", "seeing ghosts" and other superpowers, so that the housewife finally took the derailment step, and then her beautiful marriage collapsed. The whole life is awakened and rebuilt. This kind of story does not sound much different from the previous "Bergman" movies. Woody himself said that "Alice" is a comedy version of "The Other Woman." Marion in "Another Woman" miraculously heard the sound from the other end of the wall, which changed her life. And this story uses a dramatic technique, but Alice also re-examined her life. Although the methods are different, the purpose is the same.
During this period, the character elements in the serious feature films that Woody shot on the topic of women became more and more single and overlapping. He always expressed his core thoughts repeatedly. "Sisters of Hannah" is the PULS version of "Deep In My Heart", and the relationship between the characters in the film overlaps greatly. The untalented second sister in "Deep In My Heart" lives in the shadow of the genius eldest sister. She just complains and complains, not knowing why she always fails to make a career. The second sister in "Sister Hannah" is more personal and free. She relies on her elder sister and obtains financial help from her, but expresses her disgust for the elder sister's belief that she has no talent in her bones.
In "Another Woman", the eldest sister Marion learns smartly, and his father interrupted his younger brother's tuition to train his sister to become a professor of philosophy. When she grows up, her sister often pays to help her brother who has never achieved anything. While the younger brother thanked his sister, he also hated such an excellent sister. These plots and opinions are no different from what we saw in "Deep In My Heart" and "Sister Hannah". And Marion confessed that he was facing the fear of aging in "In Another Woman", which is roughly the same as Diane's sigh of old age in "Sentimental September Day".
Woody always creates unbalanced contradictions between his biological sisters and brothers, either talented or material. This terrier Woody has played 4 times so far.
In Woody's movies, the story of marriage or romance always revolves around the plot of derailment. Regardless of whether the protagonist in the movie successfully derails or not, the relationship will end in tragedy, but the degree of tragedy is different. Woody added some magical elements to "Alice" and repackaged this "derailed woman" stalk and played it again. Either serious or comical, Woody's movies have been repeated to an infinite degree at this stage. He seems to be trapped in the cage of his own thoughts, unable to bring some novel experiences to the audience. It is hard to imagine that Woody, who shot such interesting "Chameleon" and "Stardust", suddenly became exhausted in the past few years, unable to find the outlet for the soul of the story, and could only continue to rampage in this endless loop. He clung to the soul of "existentialism", but couldn't find a better way of expression.
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