Looking at Woody Allen's films, "Annie Hall" is his most cynical and autobiographical one. He boldly put his love affair with Diane Gere on the stage, opened himself up, and examined the relationship between men and women.
Maybe it's true that men are from Mars and women are from Mercury. Ivey and Annie may never have had a conversation on the same platform, but they were truly in love.
Ivey is Woody. Woody is Ivey. Jew, small in stature, with a miserable face, with deep myopia and black-rimmed glasses, a scoffing emperor with broken thoughts, with intellectual poverty, good at stand-up comics, persecuting paranoia, likes to talk about "death" and "Sex", has had two failed marriages and lived a leisurely single life.
Annie is Diane. Diane's real name is Diane Hall, nicknamed Annie. She has an amiable and free-spirited beauty mixed with a hippie uninhibited and innocuous antics. In the film, Annie wants to be a singer, and she succeeds.
The story of "Annie Hall" is rooted in Woody Allen's love-hate New York. New York is an indisputable world-class metropolis. The steel industry in the Northeast keeps the sky over New York foggy. High-rise Brooklyn, the world's richest and poorest people coexist in this space. People of all colors can call themselves New Yorkers as long as they spend three months in the city. Unlike the sunny days of Southern California, New York is a bitter, unfathomable look. Just look at the style of rock and roll in the 1960s: there is a clear difference between the political, serious and critical styles of the Northeast and the joyous, bright styles of the South. And there's Justin Timberlake's "Friends" -- acting aside -- I think it's still interesting to explore the differences between North and South. New Yorkers are mature, domineering, and calm, while Southerners are sincere, cheerful, and emotional. Annie thinks it's okay to go to the South, but Ivey can't, and Ivey can't live without New York.
Ivey pushes Annie to go to adult college and read his favorite books on the subject of death. He cynically thinks that love is built on the interaction of reason and sensuality. As everyone knows, love is sometimes so absurd and illogical. Just accept it, that's enough.
A point related to communication science is: McLuhan came out to make a soy sauce~ You don’t need to care who McLuhan is (although this old man is known as the “prophet” of the information society, he has raised many questions about the media industry. is very extreme and avant-garde, even like an alien's point of view, but I can't help but talk about the "global village" point of view, he is the initiator), but you must understand this scene: Ivey and Annie are lining up to watch the movie, The guy in the back has been chattering about his views on movies, directors and media. Ivey got into a spat with him, and the dude angrily claimed to be a professor of communication at a university and refuted Ivey by citing McLuhan's point of view. This is, Avella McLuhan standing in the corner. McLuhan said that what you said was not my opinion at all. I didn't say that at all. You're still a professor, hum.
At this point, I think of Roland Barthes. Communication is actually based on encoding and decoding. We throw a word, a sentence, write an article, a book, and others interpret our words. Interpretation, to some extent, misreading, is a reinterpretation mixed with personal experience and knowledge structures. Perhaps, it is far from the meaning of the original author. However, not every time the original author can jump out to correct those points that do not match his original intention. So, the author is dead.
Communication between men and women may be exactly the same.
As two species with such different physical and psychological structures, the encoding and decoding between them is always going to go wrong. Their rationality has never really been equal, but, on a perceptual level, they can follow the desires of their hearts and love each other.
Don't you think it's amazing~
Annie finally left Ivey. Woody and Diane's romance also came to an end. Love has its own path of birth, old age, sickness and death. It is true that he is as wise as Woody, but he can only shrug his shoulders and watch his former love cross the road and disappear into the vast sea of people.
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