Pansexualism in Anne Hall

Autumn 2022-01-26 08:03:06

1977's "Annie Hall" (Annie Hall), is the most important film in Woody's personal history, a milestone success. The film has won the Oscar for Best Picture, Best Director (Woody Allen), Best Screenplay, Best Actress (Diane Keaton) 4 awards, as well as the American Film Critics Association, the New York Film Critics Association, the Golden Globe Award, the British Film and Television A number of awards such as the Academy of Arts, can be described as infinite scenery.

There are no big scenes or hilarious hilarious scenes, and there are not many characters. The film is scattered with trivial life fragments, personal memories, occasional feelings, and idle banter. The most prominent feature of such a sloppy film is the rich taste of life in it, which not only has the perception of the art of life, but also has profound philosophy, and is also full of warm and sad sentiments. In this film, we can see the thinking of gender and art in pansexualism.

German philosopher A. Schopenhauer said in "The Sufferings of Love and Life": "Sex is the real hereditary monarch of this world, which has realized the greatness of its power, and sits proudly on the hereditary throne, with contemptuous eyes. Riding in love, when people do everything in their power to limit it, hide it, or consider it a by-product of life, or even regarded as an unworthy evil, it scoffs at their futility." Alvy Singer, never hides it His own sexuality, at the dance, he took his wife to a room and tried to have sex with her. In a public setting, he made no secret of his sexual thirst. It can be seen that Allen advocates that "sex is the real hereditary monarch of this world".

Then F. Nietzsche associates artistic creation with sexual activity, saying: "The artist, by his very nature, is probably a womanizer... The force that a person consumes in artistic conception is the same force that a person consumes in sexual activity. ." Judging from Alvy Singer's career in the film, it seems to be a deliberate arrangement by Woody Allen. As a creator of art, the dramatist needs inspiration and motivation, and their source comes from sex. Unsatisfied sexual desire will mean the exhaustion of creative inspiration. Alvy Singer's divorce is not so much because of his long-term unsatisfactory sexual life; it is more because he is divorced for the pursuit of sex and the continuous creative inspiration.

S. Freud is the epitome of pansexualism. He believes that libido (translated as libido in Chinese) is all the instinctive power contained in the word "love". This sexual instinctive power must be exerted, and if it is suppressed, it will lead to mental illness. This kind of sexual instinct energy can be transferred or sublimated. The development of human society and cultural creation are all ways for the sexual instinct to disguise itself and vent to the outside world. The original fiery flame of love was gradually extinguished under the burial of mundane life, and Annie finally abandoned Alvy to find a new relationship. Breaking up is not to hide sexual desire, but to disguise his sexual desire instinctively and let it out in a grand-sounding way, which is not only used by Annie, but also by Alvy.

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  • Carleton 2022-01-26 08:03:06

    Like Woody Allen’s setting this time, an intellectual’s uneasy and cowardly self-comforting performance is very good, but he also yearns for Annie’s sunshine, Annie yearns for a brighter future. It looks like a tragedy, but simple memories and Dialogue, let the tone of this story be the faint sadness in the romantic comedy

  • Dedric 2022-03-17 09:01:03

    [A+] The first Woody' Allen. What a lovely work. A perfect analysis of a failed love. The chattering film, the lines are like flowing water, but what is rare is that I like every sentence very much, some are deep, some are witty, and some are ironic. The styles are mixed and changeable, but they blend together perfectly. After reading it, I suddenly felt that the hero Ivy is an extreme me, the same maverick, always standing on the opposite side of the world, and also longing for a lover who is similar to me; but I will not go directly to such a person, Or in other words, it is basically difficult to find such a person; therefore, I always want to change the person I meet into what I should have in my heart, but it backfires and drifts away. The last montage seemed like a lifetime, and suddenly felt an indescribable sadness.

Annie Hall quotes

  • Alvy Singer: I'm so tired of spending evenings making fake insights with people who work for "Dysentery."

    Robin: "Commentary."

    Alvy Singer: Oh really? I had heard that "Commentary" and "Dissent" had merged and formed "Dysentery."

  • Allison: I'm in the midst of doing my thesis.

    Alvy Singer: On what?

    Allison: Political commitment in twentieth century literature.

    Alvy Singer: You, you, you're like New York, Jewish, left-wing, liberal, intellectual, Central Park West, Brandeis University, the socialist summer camps and the, the father with the Ben Shahn drawings, right, and the really, y'know, strike-oriented kind of, red diaper, stop me before I make a complete imbecile of myself.

    Allison: No, that was wonderful. I love being reduced to a cultural stereotype.

    Alvy Singer: Right, I'm a bigot, I know, but for the left.