"Love in September" is Woody Allen's most unsuccessful commercial film, and it is also the dullest and least dramatic of all Woody Allen films so far. It is even more dull than the serious "Deep In My Heart" and more boring than the nonsensical "Midsummer Night Comedy". It is an indoor drama in the style of Chekov's novels. The film was originally planned to be shot in a country house in Mia Farrow before the fall, but it was early winter when it was filmed, so Woody Allen had to make "Sentimental September Day" an indoor drama on the studios of the film company.
Indoor drama is very much like drama in film form, but the biggest shortcoming of this movie is that it lacks the powerful drama of drama. My personal opinion is that, in addition to documentaries, the core of the script of a feature film must be strong and dramatic, otherwise it will become a sleepy nagging film. Especially in movies like Woody that prefer to use long lines to present the story, this shortcoming is particularly obvious. The box office revenue of "September Day" is only 486,000 US dollars, which is Woody Allen's lowest-grossing film. The story lacks drama, and at the same time, the emotions of all the characters in this film are restricted and sealed by the director, so the whole film is infinitely close to a terrible silence, and the art is infinitely smoothed out and reduced to cheap self-righteousness.
As a general audience, "Feelings in September and the Sky" has no movie value. But as a fan of Woody Allen, it has the temperament of Woody's film director, and it is an indispensable material for studying Woody's film style.
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In the film, the physicist Lloyd stated his view of the universe to the writer Peter, who then conveyed it to Stephanie: "The universe is accidental, morally neutral, and has unimaginable violence."
Simply translated, this sentence means that the formation of the universe is completely accidental, and life has no necessary meaning. The universe is morally neutral, and there is no god. Even if there is, it does not care about justice and evil. The only thing in the universe is that the truth is violence, and the violence of species eclipses, wars, and disasters is the only truth.
Typical pessimism, Woody Allen uses the pretence of a physicist to convey his cosmic pessimistic worldview to the audience. This is not the first time. As early as in "Anne Hall", Woody Allen used the little boy who symbolized his childhood to say that the universe is expanding, so everything is meaningless, such a pessimistic nihilistic view of the world.
Non-mainstream love complexes such as extramarital affairs, unmarried love, and love triangles are once again shown in the movie, so I won't repeat them here, but in Woody's movie. "Derailment" is a topic it inadvertently discusses forever.
On a rainy night with lightning and thunder, the passionate love between Stephanie and Peter happened.
In a rainy day, the most classic emotional outburst is the rain scene in "The End of the Game."
Woody Allen’s favorite weather is rain.
"I always shoot on location in the gloomiest weather. If you have watched all my films over the years, you will find that when the sun is never bright, the sky is always gray. You will feel that New York is always rainy like London. Mianmian, I like the feeling of rain. I simply think rain is beautiful."
"For me, only when it rains in the movie is romantic. That kind of atmosphere is too important."
"Rain creates an environment in which some very intimate things are prone to happen, such as falling in love, such as finding sustenance."
"If you remove the sun, the whole atmosphere will become more melancholic and private, and people can't help but reveal their inner feelings." --Woody Allen.
The most beautiful and romantic scene in this film is the blackout scene in the villa when there is lightning flashing, thunder, and rain. Everyone is in the dim light, and the atmosphere is gradually romantic and emotional. This romantic scene is intoxicating aftertaste, and this scene is the only valuable part of the film.
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