Manhattan

Talia 2021-11-13 08:01:24

Watching Woody's movies are always full of lines, making you too late to watch. But as long as you look carefully, you will discover how talented Woody is as a director, and he often breaks the traditional narrative structure and jumps out to explain himself, one will be the person in the play, the other will be the third person, this The performance is especially obvious in "Annie Hall".
In "Manhattan", the lines are filled with a lot of information: Kierkegaard, Bergman, stability, negative sensibility, loyalty...It can be said that some people may look confused. , But some people are always understanding. This is like the allusions in ancient Tang poems. The deeper you hide, the harder it is to read. If you encounter someone who knows how to interpret, you will get great enjoyment from the poem, and the poem is highly regarded. That’s why there was a lot of entertainment among ancient humanities, literati, and writers, and Woody’s films were just like that. He was not filmed for everyone. Those petty bourgeois who thought they were well-educated especially liked it. He catered to an emptiness, The mind that is swelling and wanting to sell to the outside world.

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  • Yale: You know we have to stop seeing each other, don't you.

    Mary Wilke: Oh, yeah. Right. Right. I understand. I could tell by the sound of your voice on the phone. Very authoritative, y'know. Like the pope, or the computer in 2001.

  • Isaac Davis: You know what you are? You're God's answer to Job, y'know? You would have ended all argument between them. I mean, He would have pointed to you and said, y'know, "I do a lot of terrible things, but I can still make one of these." You know? And then Job would have said, "Eh. Yeah, well, you win."