I don't believe anyone who doesn't understand (or isn't proficient in) English will laugh, but I believe everyone wants to laugh. Want to laugh, but can't laugh, this is Woody Allen's humor, like the theme of this movie, the seemingly non-existent love. He doesn't talk to you about love, but there must be love in it, like when he gives her gifts, like when they go back to Brooklyn together, but even those are uncertain and anxiety-filled - sex is supposed to be The most beautiful love experience, but she needs drugs to stimulate, why is this? Because we have this anxiety: I'm loving, I know I'm loving, I know I'm experiencing the most wonderful feeling right now, but am I experiencing it? Is this love real love? I'm afraid that I won't experience it because I'm thinking, and the anxiety that comes with thinking is blocking my experience, so I have to use drugs to stop thinking. Just like what Zhuangzi said "to be proud and forgetting words", in order to achieve a kind of bliss, thinking must be abolished.
Later, when he lost her, the days with her in the past became the best memory. Some people joked that lovelorn is the beginning of love. Because when you're in love you don't feel that you're in love. In the film, there are only three places where you can really see love. One is their first acquaintance, an exciting and mysterious attraction between the opposite sex; the other is that he went to her house in the middle of the night to kill insects. The real spiritual love; the third is his lovelorn, so the previous gifts and returning to Brooklyn all flooded into his heart one by one, and those things turned into the love he longed for. When they are really together, he can't feel it. When they are together, they each attach a layer of thought, which is the anxiety (including fear and desire) I mentioned earlier, which is also a problem faced by modern urbanites. the biggest problem.
In this day and age, all the old frenzy has passed, leaving us nothing but nothingness. The amount of information that exploded, the viewpoints of various schools and factions, and all kinds of doctrines, we were all tired of hearing them, and we didn’t believe anything. So, we want to break free, we need spiritual comfort, that is love. However, this kind of love can only be platonic, love that does not exist in reality. When you get it, it doesn't belong to you.
why? because of thought.
In the movie, Woody Allen goes to the street and asks a happy couple why they are so happy, and they tell him because they don't understand anything. They are stupid!
it is ridiculous. Did the great Prometheus think of this when he brought fire to mankind?
Today, people are cold. Whether God exists or not, those metaphysical questions are no longer pursued because we are too smart to believe in anything. Urban people are in such a situation.
What Woody Allen wants to show is this anxiety of urbanites. This anxiety comes from public opinion and mass media. It can be seen everywhere in the film that when he had sex with his ex-wife, his ex-wife insisted that the pleasure should be reduced to psychological theories, accompanied by laughter behind the soap opera, fear of insects...
Society, public opinion, and the media are invading all the time. Our lives desperately codify us into its system, where everyone becomes singular.
This is how the rebels appear, and the so-called absurd is born in this way. The film is fast-paced, constantly pulling the audience from scene to scene (meaning the hustle and bustle of urban life), but in between, Woody Allen occasionally jumps out of the play for a few ironies , in the movie theater, he pulled out the person the person was commenting on, confronted him face to face, and got out of the rationale of the film. The people in the play just want to jump out and resist the play (that is, the reality in the play, the inevitability in the play), in order to realize the various possibilities of human beings.
And humor -- people have experienced the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the First World War, the Second World War, the Cold War, and countless utopian fantasies. The only thing left is helpless humor.
There are too many places worth looking into in the film, such as the meaning of death, political jokes, and cultural jokes, and celebrity anecdotes abound in the film, but these are all lace and laugh at them. The film is mainly about a love story full of anxiety.
Love... just like the joke he told at the beginning, two old women went on a trip, one said: "The food in this place is really bad enough." The other said: "Well, the portion is so small. ."
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