It's the only Woody Allen movie that doesn't use jazz in the opening and closing credits, and doesn't use any music at all. The film opens with a close-up of Joey, a mother of three gazing deeply at the beach. The second daughter, Joey, is a copy and continuation of her mother's life. There's a sequence where Joey says I've spent my life trying to avoid being a mom, and Diane Keaton's eldest daughter says to Joey, look at yourself, you're her now. And Renada, the eldest daughter of the poet, has similar fears in her heart. Here is a fragment I like very much—
As a daughter, I avoided becoming a mother all my life. From a certain point of view, this seems cruel - the image of a mother, in the heart of her daughter, is imperfect, even so sad.
The film ends with three daughters staring at the sea. The eldest daughter Lenada said "very peaceful", the camera went dark, and the movie ended.
As one of the few non-comedy films of Woody Allen, it is generally well done. Woody Allen, he's actually very good at deep stuff, but comedy chose him. In my opinion, aside from Bergman's borrowings from Woody Allen, "Inside My Heart" is a very good film for him, by any measure.
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