The first Woody Allen movie I started watching after listening to the recommendation of Publica.
To be honest, I was really amazed, and after watching it, I realized that the protagonist was Woody himself.
Since it is called "Manhattan", the plot is of course very Manhattan.
New York is a very contradictory city. It is very tolerant but out of place. People despise and look down on each other, but they enjoy the feeling of sympathy. It is very open and very conservative.
The opening line directly summarizes the anxiety, contradiction, sensitivity, impetuousness, indifference and chaos of the whole film and even the whole of New York.
"Chapter 1: He loves New York, glorifies it too much... no, it should be said, romanticizes it too much... For him, every moment of the city is reflected in George Gershwin In the jazz melody of . Not good, again, chapter one, like everything else, he had too many fantasies about Manhattan. Those busy people, and heavy traffic, for him, New York represented beauty, And the ruffian who does his own way in order to survive... not good, too old-fashioned, tasteless, come back, have depth, the first chapter, he yearns for New York, for him, it symbolizes the decline of contemporary culture, speculation Full of mentality, people who expect nothing for nothing, make the city quickly... No, it's like preaching, no one will read... Chapter 1, he yearns for New York, even if it symbolizes the decline of contemporary culture, this urban jungle Filled with drugs, music, TV, violence, garbage... This is too cynical, not good... In the first chapter, he is the embodiment of New York, under the black-rimmed glasses, his wild charm like a jungle leopard... Written Well, New York is his city, a city that belongs to him"
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In the film, people are not shy about discussing sex openly in social situations. At that time (1979), they divorced their husbands and disclosed their homosexual relationships, fell in love with underage female students, and had extramarital affairs. The whole film is as casual and clean as jazz, and the golden lines are frequent.
I think people should mate for life, like pigeons or Catholics.
Tracy is the youngest 17-year-old girl among the protagonists of the film, but her love for life, her purity and firmness make people feel that she is the person who understands love best.
Issac therefore often said to her:
Don't be so mature.
People often need to choose between the people they like and those who like them, and everyone must like the people they like, but the beliefs and choices are not necessarily the same, depending on whether they are confident enough, optimists or pessimists Activists.
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Becasue nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind, Everything really valuable has to enter you through a different opening..if you'll forgive the disgusting imagery. You rely too much on your brain, the brain is the most overrated organ.
Most people have a much higher self-positioning of themselves than they actually are, are glamorous, self-deceitful, and finally even believe that they truly belong to the upper class. But the unbearableness and the gap when the real thing happens is the reality. When others are in trouble, they talk rhetorically and eloquently, but when I encounter the same thing, when others use the same theory to comfort me, I realize how self-righteous I am. Self-righteous to emphasize one's own pale arguments.
Not everybody gets corrupted. You have to have a little faith in people.
This is the last sentence of the film, Tracy said to Issac.
The protagonist of the movie has too many classic explosive lines. I just downloaded the script, and I hope Ershu can find some according to the script.
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