The film "Ferris Wheel" opens with a familiar voice-over method and a method of breaking the fourth wall to chat with the audience. Seven of Woody's directorial careers have been built around a female character. They are "Annie Hall" in 1977, "Purple Rose of Cairo" in 1985, "The Other Woman" in 1988, "Alice" in 1990, "Twin Melinda" in 2004, "Blue Jasmine" in 2013 and Ferris Wheel in 2017. Woody's work in his later years became more mature, sophisticated, and streamlined as he got older. Every scene in "Ferris Wheel" is like a stage play. While the picture is full of dramatic tension, there are no redundant shots.
I don't know if it's the reason why the old Woody is nostalgic again. There are many elements of Woody's previous movies in the movie "Ferris Wheel", which is worth pondering. In the 1977 movie "Annie Hall," for example, Woody lived under an amusement park roller coaster as a child. In the 1999 film "Sweet and Humble", Heidi lived in the laundry room at the amusement park, next to the roller coaster; in the 2017 film "Ferris Wheel", the Ginny family lived in the amusement park, downstairs Shooting game shop.
Ginny's son in "Ferris Wheel" likes to watch movies, just like the heroine Cecilia in "Purple Rose of Cairo". His biggest hobby is arson, and he likes to go to the cinema to watch movies to escape from real life and the irritable life at school. The little boy skipping school to watch movies is to express Woody's own feelings. Woody's greatest childhood hobby is to go to the cinema to watch movies to escape from reality. "When I was a kid, whenever I wanted to escape, I would go to the cinema—sometimes 12 or 14 movies a week." -- "Woody Allen Talks"
Ginny and Mickey met on a rainy day, and Carolina flirted with Mickey in the car on a rainy day. It's the rainy day we're familiar with again, because that's Woody's favorite, romantic, passionate weather. "For me, it's only romantic when it rains in a movie, and that atmosphere is so important." "Rain always makes me feel a certain kind of intimacy.", "Rain creates an environment, in this In this atmosphere, some very intimate things are prone to happen, such as falling in love, such as finding sustenance." -- "In My Heart" (Woody Allen Interview)
Ginny likes to listen to the radio, and she thinks it's all true. Like listening to the radio, that's the whole movie theme of "The Age of Infinite Power," and one of Woody's biggest childhood obsessions. "I suddenly realized how important the radio had played in my upbringing, and everyone was fascinated by it." -- "In My Heart"
Ginny's ex-husband left because of her cheating, and she felt that she was blaming herself for screwing up, which is the same as Jasmine's setting in "Blue Jasmine". Jasmine also always blamed herself all because she screwed up and ruined her good life.
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Woody was 83 years old when Ferris Wheel was released in 2017. This wise old man shocked me again. His works in his later years became more mature, sophisticated, and streamlined, the film images became more beautiful, and the shots were more accurately controlled. It's still the graceful jazz, and it's still a story of existentialism and nihilism under the red and blue neon lights. People are not reconciled to the dullness and bitterness of real life, and rely on beautiful fantasies and unrealistic visions. However, in the end, people are still unable to communicate with each other, and are permanently isolated by the huge ravine of loneliness.
Luck once again ruled the universe and ruled the fate of man. When the gangsters looked for Carolina for the first time, by accident, they didn't enter the restaurant. When they came again at the end, Carolina's fate went to the other side of the net on the small intestine. The tennis ball hit the net, did not pass, and fell gently.
Ferris Wheel is a stripped-down theatrical film.
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