Melinda et Melinda

Uriah 2022-01-28 08:17:52

Another film by Woody Allen that explores life. The background is still New York. The dark yellow background gives a sense of nobility, simplicity and restraint, but there is always a lingering atmosphere, just like the ambiguous, entangled and restless relationship between people in the city.

This is mainly to discuss the essence of life is COMEDY? Or TRADY? The idea of ​​the film is clever. Under the same premise, through the radically different advancements of comedy writers and tragic writers, completely different endings were born. Although this is only a hypothesis, the chain effect and the step-by-step development of the story are very likely to find real-life examples. After reading it, I have a question in my mind, what is the primary factor in determining whether life is COMEDY or TRADY? Woody Allen doesn't discuss this in the film, and ends up offering theories like "living in the moment".

Think about it, if I were the heroine in that hypothetical story, what would the ending be like? The ending of COMEDY OR TRADY seems to be related to the protagonist's optimistic or pessimistic attitude towards life. But will the optimist have a COMEDY ending? Or are pessimists doomed to TRADY in the end? Are the criteria for judging whether life is COMEDY or TRADY a subjective personal opinion or an objective social measure?
OH~ Enough questions for Woody Allen to make another movie!

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Extended Reading
  • Icie 2022-03-25 09:01:22

    Radha Mitchell is old and thin, but the girlishness is not reduced, and it is still very good-looking, which is probably the type that Woody himself likes. The bonus is that the two supporting characters of grey's anatomy are also in it

  • Abelardo 2022-03-24 09:03:38

    Sadness is the form, happiness is the content. The difference is that happy people often inject happiness into sadness, and unfortunate people often inject sadness into happiness. Woody's tragicomedy apparently draws inspiration from Milan Kundera's speculations about light and heavy, and teases those who put the cart before the horse. Overall pessimistic, he believes that what kind of person we become depends on our cognitive horizons, so "Twin Melinda", which can make wishes come true, eventually became a magic mirror rather than a magic lamp. This slightly didactic work asks the audience the question: in a chaotic and pessimistic life, be a pessimistic optimist or an optimistic pessimist.

Melinda and Melinda quotes

  • Melinda: [Dejected, having doscovered her boyfriend has been sleeping with her best friend] I loved you.

    Ellis Moonsong: I don't have a satisfactory explanation. You know these things happen. Living is messy.

  • Sy: The essence of life isn't tragic; it's comic.