Woody Allen filmed "Alice" in 1990. The originality of course came from the familiar "Alice in Wonderland". Tim Burton's version of "Alice" played the two trump cards of Depp and Helena. , Can be described as the "weird nerve coffee" thunder father and thunder mother, but as soon as Mia Farrow's Alice came out, no one dared to compete with her nervously.
Let's take a look at Mia's physical appearance, neuroticism is her label. Eyes that are always erratic, make people wonder that they can never focus; the sharp and flustered voice, when she speaks as if she is atonement for sin; her best expression is wandering, once smiling or staring, it makes people mistakenly think that she is suffering. She is strong; she stares at the camera intently, showing the temperament of waiting to be hurt. She does not look at the camera, but her movements become tense and cautious. Even the freckles on her face are arranged on the screen in a "neurotic" shape. Maybe it's my dazzling, but maybe it's because of her ridiculous acting skills.
In "Alice", Mia plays a typical Manhattan high society housewife, her husband is handsome and rich, and her children are cute and paired. In her life, she only has beauty, self-cultivation, hairdressing, and occasionally arranging the banquet seats. Of course, Woody can't shoot the Spring Festival Gala no matter how invincible, so Alice's happy life is destined to be undercurrents, or she will be wasting her talented nerves in vain. The audience will not be disappointed. As the film just started, Alice was daydreaming and fantasizing about kissing other men affectionately in front of her family.
It turned out that when Alice became nervous, she secretly fell in love with Joey, the father of her children and classmates. Her neurotic paranoia made her draw the ground into a prison. Alice's sad and obsessive eyes are killing her.
Before death, the pain came first. Alice suffered from backache and malaise, and was recommended by a friend to enter the Chinese pharmacy to receive Chinese medicine treatment. Body aches and Chinese-style pharmacies are nothing but a guise for Woody, which is obviously a marriage consultation with a new face. Lord Woody still put his favorite psychological counseling on the court.
I don’t know if in the past films, Western-style marriage counselors played too many times, this time Woody had to mix and match Chinese style. Under Dr. Yang's hypnotism, Alice confided in the dilemma of a real marriage. She was tired of being the spokesperson of a happy marriage.
Different from the words of Western-style doctors, Dr. Yang gave Alice some Chinese herbal medicine. Alice who took the medicine met Joey and was as excited as a chicken blood. Her nervousness suddenly changed from a depressive type to a manic type. The conversation was straightforward and interesting. Ambiguous and moving, and also agreed to meet again for in-depth development.
However, Alice finally gave up dating, emotional impulse is still blocked by rational judgment (damn Kant, it is you after enlightenment to raise human rationality, how much grievances do you pull out). The anxious Alice again turned to Doctor Yang for help, and the power of herbs mixed with nervousness attacked again, directly hitting Alice's love life and her entire life. Digging the truth to the end, her husband has a new love, his lover loves his ex-wife, his mother is snobbish, and his sister gradually isolates. Alice's happy life turned out to be nothing but joy. It's like waking up suddenly after smoking marijuana and hing to heaven.
This theme is of course Woody’s old tune. There must be a lot of such short stories in the drawer of his old man. Years later, he came up with a "The Curse of the Jade Scorpion". Although I drink Chinese herbal medicine and the plot has enough magic, the ending is still Freudian self-recognition and self-realization. What makes "Alice" a little bit more exciting is that Alice and Mia reflect on each other through neuroticism in and out of the movie. The former is nervous looking for happiness, the latter is nervous looking for stability. The former takes herbal psychedelics, while the latter evolves into "adoption control" to stabilize themselves. The former is emotionally divorced, and the latter, fortunately, has Woody, racing against time to comment on her life in each film.
Mia has been taken to travel around the world since she was a child. Her heart is simple and direct, "I want stability, but I never got it." When she was young, she asked God for help and tried to enter the monastery as a nun. How did the dead ex-boyfriend in "Alice" tell her, "I have sex with many women, but you are the only one who wants to be a nun." Woody's jokes are always unexpected.
The desire to achieve a stable life grows harder. Mia's mother played Jane in "Tarzan of the Apes", of course beautiful. The father who died of a heart attack when Mia was 17, was of course romantic. Mia made a mistake and did not see her father for the last time. The mother in "Feelings in September Day" is still very graceful even when she is old, and she has a strong attitude to control her daughter. The daughter has always been charged with the crime of killing her father, and her heart is painful. This should be an outlet for Woody to blame Mia.
Therefore, hurriedly marrying Frank Sinatra at the age of 19 was the beginning of Mia's search for secular "stability". The latter said that I was obsessed with her and had a tomboy-like sexy. Forgive me for never understanding Frank’s rhetoric, nor can I see Mia’s sexy. When you think that Frank’s ex-wife is Ava Gardner, would you? As confused as me? In "The Good Couple", Jack played by Sidney Pollack left his old couple to find a young and beautiful girl. At first, he was obsessed with her innocence, but later couldn't stand her ignorance. They went to the party together, but she talked about horoscope gossip among the tasteful people, and Jack turned around and left in anger. Come and listen to Mia's evaluation of Frank, "Any 19-year-old girl is more mature than me. Poor Frank, actually has to take care of such a child. I will fall asleep in social situations and will tirelessly talk about pets with others. "Does that scene count as Woody's explanation for her first marriage?"
Since there is no happiness in marriage in destiny, make up for it by self-made family. Divorce, adopt children, remarry, adopt children, divorce again, continue adopting children. There are more and more children, and I wonder if the love I want is also more and more. Until I met Woody, they didn't get married but lived together, and a stable life came miraculously. During the period he directed 13 films, and she didn't care about being the protagonist or supporting role. He described her neurosis endlessly in the movie, but in reality she accepted his request to live across the street. From a neurotic point of view, these two are a perfect match!
But "Alice" finally ended with Alice choosing to leave her husband, the magic of the herbal medicine was dispelled, and her nervousness subsided. Two years after the filming, Woody "derailed", the stable illusion shattered, Mia had to leave, and the rest of the time was only called "someone" Woody. Even so, Woody still wanted her to be the heroine in "Manhattan Murder" afterwards. Everyone has seen that the heroine saved by Diana Keaton took a more neurotic attitude into a murder investigation. , It's just that Keaton, who is already old, started a nerve to show a little "crazy".
Yes, the perfect neurosis has gone. Only he understands her, loves her neuroticism, but still loses to time; and neuroticism has become the essence of her, that is because even time has not given her the stability she wants.
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