Woody Allen is an out-and-out film author. He has been creating movies for so many years, constantly digging out the depth from the inherent film genres and theatrical elements, and establishing a set of his own unique worldview. And values, and constantly questioning the nature of life with movies, the creative power is really amazing. Regardless of whether his sexual assault scandal is true or not, he cannot be denied his own artistic achievements.
Many people review his [Manhattan] filming in 1979, and they will probably refer to Sang Huai for his year-end love in the film, and mention the scandal of his sexual assault on his adopted daughter. In fact, this is just nonsense. This film is the true feelings of Woody Allen. Confession, a middle-aged man who is full of self-deprecating and then self-examination, suppresses himself because of social norms, but slowly discovers true love, is willing to sincerely express his true feelings in his heart, this may be the middle-class Woody Allen The analysis method that class intellectuals would choose.
The year-end love in this film may be the personal preference of director Woody Allen, or he believes that only underage young people deserve to have an honest and pure soul, and they can awaken their confidence in the city and people. Starting from the narration at the beginning of the film, Woody Allen, as a middle-aged writer, described his views on Manhattan’s personnel when he wrote the first chapter of the novel, from being full of self, to negativity, to clichés. The description of, obviously, Woody Allen played this role, has always chosen to suppress his true thoughts, he hopes to please others. In the whole movie, no one is actually standing on the moral high ground to criticize him. Instead, he uses his own moral values to restrain himself. The director does not want to promote a correct and accepted ethical value for the public, but Wu The protagonist played by Di Allen constantly pulls in his heart and behavior, and opens his heart at the end, willing to face his own heart squarely.
This film is the first time Woody Allen has used black and white photography and shot with a 2.35:1 widescreen ratio, which puts a gloomy color on the film. He has always pursued production flexibility and often uses a long lens. When shooting the dialogue of the characters, the camera always follows the walk of the characters and chats. This film does not change this scheduling process. Only in black and white photography, the characters will fall into the dark position from time to time and turn into shadows. At the same time, the photography will continue to expand. The screen ratio highlights the city’s people coming and going, the foreground, and the background scheduling are more detailed than previous movies, especially the scene of the planetarium hiding from the rain in this film. The middle shot, and then to the close-up with the Milky Way as the background, as they get closer and closer to the camera, they have their own private space to talk. Photography allows the characters to have a deeper connection with the city, and the protagonist has no comparison. The city is big, and Woody Allen wants to shoot his favorite New York.
This film is also a very personal film of Woody Allen, expressing his attitude towards love, that is, regardless of any narrow ethics and morality, people should frankly face their inner emotions, and falling in love is falling in love. The frank confrontation between people is more important than all ethics and morals.
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