absurd

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The heroine is an actor that the director loves to use, or it may be Woody's ideal beauty, high cheekbones, blonde hair, these are the standards of Western aesthetics.
The plot tells about the derailment of the wealthy wife at home. She is elegant and noble. She is self-depressing. A helpless western life problem that needs an affair to stimulate. She needed to see a psychiatrist, but she went to Chinatown to find doctor Yang. Old Chinese doctor Yang is more like a wizard with oriental mystery. He hypnotizes the lady. Mental illness + hypnosis, these elements appear in many of Woody's movies. Maybe it's Woody's self-entanglement, maybe Westerners are damn sick. Actually, who the fuck is not sick? Yang TCM's stealth medicine seems absurd, but the truth is that even if you can stay invisible, your life will not change much. Just like the protagonist's monologue in Wang Xiaobo's "Future World": You have no choice but to live like this.
Life, at the moment of successful fertilization, is doomed.

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Alice quotes

  • Nancy Brill: [discussing script ideas] Let me stop you. We want blood-and-guts stuff, not so subtle.

    Alice: Oh, well. I have another about a young girl who wanted to be a nun.

    Nancy Brill: No nuns. They want sexy, unscrupulous, rich, melodramatic, but no nuns. Listen, anything like that occurs to you, we'll talk. Give me a jingle and one of these weeks we'll go to Le Cirque.

  • Ed: Do I sense trouble in paradise?

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