The scripts of Woody Allen’s works are often wonderful and interesting, full of stories, but this time, "Midnight Paris" is slightly different, it is equally clever, but not particularly focused on narrative, but leads to a wonderful clue , To unfold a style painting of the times. Yes, the story is simple. A writer is unwilling to write some stylized Hollywood scripts (Woody Allen never mind starting his own business), but wants to write truly great works of art. And this kind of enthusiasm tested his wife’s patience, and made his father-in-law not at ease. In Paris, he lingered, once the midnight bell rang, and traveled to Paris in the 1920s, talking with a group of art masters, and becoming more and more involved. The awkward situation of a split in real life. The story of traversing, especially the story of traversing to the past, is very familiar to Chinese audiences, but such an artistic journey of traversal is still rare. In this journey through, Woody Allen didn’t want the hero to change history, but let him act as a subjective lens to get a glimpse of the splendid artistic Paris, and let people “count the stars”, Hemingway, and the Philippines. Cgerald, Picasso, Dali, Bunuel, etc., let the male mainstream forget to return, the past world looks beautiful.
However, if you think that Woody Allen is just a tribute to a star chaser like a male protagonist, you would be wrong. His old naughty irony and ridicule continue in the film. The entanglement in the Fitzgerald couple's rumors is vividly expressed, while Hemingway is always drug-like excitement, and Buñuel has a dull appearance that is incompatible with his later works. For the male protagonist, Paris at that time, or the world at that time, was the most beautiful, as if everyone was fascinated by art. Without the sharp and copper smell of his father-in-law and mother-in-law, women also love to pursue art dreamers. Not nagging all day long. All these illusions finally abstracted a virtual character who was not there in history: Adriana, in the eyes of the male protagonist, this woman is so beautiful, as in that era. Gradually, he fell in love with her and became more capable with her. Communicating well, rather than with his fiancée, is as if he can have a better relationship with that passing time. However, he also witnessed the mundane things of the masters, and also saw Adriana's dissatisfaction with the current era, until as she traveled to the beautiful era before the First World War, Zweig wrote countless nostalgias, but , The result is that people at that time also miss the past. This is the highlight of this film. The past, present, and future have their own place in history, their own excitement, and their own regrets. The male protagonist loves Adriana in the 19th century and Paris in the 19th century; Adriana loves Paris at the end of the 18th century. This seems to be a "common problem". Just as many people today often mention how Chinese youths were keen on art and literature in the 1980s, and lament how people are not old-fashioned, they are all for money. However, people can only live in the present and experience the excitement of the present. Perhaps this excitement will be a beautiful era in the eyes of future generations in a few decades. The protagonist finally met a girl in contemporary Paris. Yes, this world is not that bad. Today's problems and confusions still have to be dealt with today.
Woody Allen made a kind of "negation" to the feeling of nostalgia for the past with the story of crossing, but it was such a gentle blow that did not tear up the beauty of the past in Paris. The whole film distinguishes the old and the new world from the color, the modern brilliance is conspicuous, and the sun is shining; the past world is wonderful at midnight, the color is full of retro nostalgia, from the set, the props, and even the makeup of the actors and the real characters In terms of the fit, Woody Allen gave a rigorous reproduction, which made people feel very comfortable. With so many art masters on stage, it is inevitable that people will "fall out of the bookbag". Woody is not afraid of this, and even directly plays the role of falling out of the bookbag. But in fact, Woody Allen made the appearance of the masters appear to be natural and unpretentious. If you are not particularly familiar with the characters inside, do some homework before or read the intimate explanations of domestic subtitles workers. Looking at it as a whole, remember that these people are all "famous" and "masters". This also makes this movie a more personalized and three-dimensional movie, just like the kind of "fan movie", your familiarity with the characters' background or works determines different people's more different experiences. For example, if you haven't watched Buñuel’s "Angel of Destruction", you cannot understand the fun of a dialogue between the protagonist and Buñuel about why people can’t get out of a house. And if you have watched "The Great Gatsby" and watched the roles of the Fitzgerald and his wife, especially the demeanor of Mrs. Fitzgerald, you will have more emotions.
"Midnight in Paris", an interesting film. At the beginning of the film, Woody Allen used the perspective of the Paris Tourism Office to statically show the many landscapes of the streets of Paris, which is very beautiful. Then, I took a surrealistic art tour to present the cultural and artistic dynamics of Paris, making people fall in love with the vibrant art of Paris. Woody Allen has often traveled around Europe in his films in recent years, but London and Barcelona are more like the background of a story. Unlike "Midnight Paris", this city is part of this story, symbolizing one passing era after another. , The city is still there, waiting for people to visit and experience, to unconsciously create new memories of this city.
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