At the end of the movie, the male protagonist is sitting in a taxi and accidentally sees his ex-girlfriend hugging another man. He says with emotion: "Life is so strange, full of inexplicable mystery", while the elderly taxi driver only faints Answer: "yeah, you know, just like anything else". The taxi driver has a big heart, and he speaks the moral of the film on behalf of Woody Allen.
Trapped in our daily life, we can't help being narrow-minded and stubborn; just like a kitten playing games with its own tail, it can't get out of the vicious circle set by itself. I love what Woody Allen said to the hero early in the movie: "A lot of people go to the doctor and say to the doctor, why does my hand hurt when I shake it like this? The doctor says, don't move it." Except we're used to it. all the action, and a lot of anything else.
Woody Allen is such a lovely guy, he's always in his movies, babbling as if the film itself wasn't enough to tell everything he's got to tell us. He has great wisdom to see life, but he never pretends to be serious. Perhaps it was because he felt the pain and helplessness of life itself that he chose to mock it in a humorous way. A grieving nation is not obsessed with tragedy.
A friend told me before that he thought Woody Allen's films were just playful, not masterpieces. For now, I don't think so. He's just dealing with serious issues in a lighthearted and humorous way.
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