A love letter to the times

Ali 2022-02-27 08:01:20

"I will never forget New Year's in 1944, these people, the voices on the radio, which just seem to get weaker with each new year..."

Recently, I just happen to love to listen to Suede's lost in TV, and I always sing lost in TV, lost in dream. It seems that in Woody Allen's childhood, the era was lost in the radio. This is probably the childhood of the little old man. In the form of radio, he wore his childhood years and the golden age of radio in the United States. Whether it's Orson Welles' national prank, the bombing of Pearl Harbor, or the final rescue of the girl from the well, it is an unforgettable memory for the American people of that era.

It's a less Woody Allen movie, with no central events, no central characters, and seemingly no dramatic momentum and conflict, and if the script is taken up to this day, the Shredder is the only way out. But when the little old man added memories and times to this less-than-stellar story, everything seemed to be Woody Allen again. What doesn't change in the movie is the constant nagging and the cold humor everywhere, and I have to admit that I couldn't stop laughing during those 88 minutes, even though that era was far and away from me. It is worth mentioning that the film still has the director's ruthless ridicule of God and ridicule of women, political parties and Hollywood, and his ability to ridicule is still MAX.

Times are always changing. When I was a child, I was a TV boy. At that time, the Internet and smart phones were not yet popularized and appeared, and everyone was still lost in TV. When my mom is not at home on weekends, I can lie in front of the TV all day, watching all kinds of programs, like in the movie, will the next era remember us? I don't think so, I have completely forgotten the TV content at that time, and only have fragmented memories. It may seem tragic, but that's the character of the times - forgetting the previous era.

Looking at the top line, I remembered the ending of Party A and Party B, "1997 has passed, I miss him very much",

View more about Radio Days reviews

Extended Reading
  • Loren 2022-02-27 08:01:20

    The predecessor of "Coffee Commune". The 40s, like gold, have been sculpted by countless hands, and the falling gold shavings have been scattered to this day. Time flies, old age, but I don't know anything about life. Now that everything is gone, only the memory remains. In the face of the radiant radio days, I have always ridiculed myself like an old man, and I couldn't help feeling sad at the end.

  • Beth 2022-03-26 09:01:13

    The old man is a nostalgic film that reminisces about his childhood with a little sadness. The radio has become a synaesthesia carrier, and a piece of music corresponds to a piece of memory. Putting away the sharp edges and corners and complaining and complaining, what was left was a warm and moderate humor; I didn't expect him to have such a warm side. Almost all of Woody Allen's regular co-stars at that time (Diane Keaton and Mia Farrow also rarely appeared at the same time) 876 2020.02.19 Rewatch

Radio Days quotes

  • Narrator: [about a therapist's radio show] I found the show silly and always imagined my parents on it airing their standard complaints.

    Mother: He's a business failure. He never finishes what he starts. We're forced to live with my relatives and thank God for them. And I should have married Sam Slotkin.

    Father: Sam Slotkin's dead.

    Mother: Yes, but while he was alive, he was working.

    Father: She'd be lost without her whole family around her all the time, and you should see 'em. They're like some kind of tribe. They're like the Huns. Maybe if I had married a more encouraging woman, who knows?

    Mother: So who do you think is right?

    Mr. Abercrombie: I think you both deserve each other.

    Mother: What does that mean?

    Father: Look, we didn't come here to be insulted.

    Mother: I love him, but what did I do to deserve him?

  • Roger: I hope 1944 turns out well. They pass so quickly. Where do they all go?

    Biff Baxter: So quickly. Then we get old. And we never knew what any of it was about.