If you ask who is the alternative ghost director in Hollywood, there must be a famous name on the list - Woody Allen
In his nearly 50 years of directing career, he has constantly used his own unique techniques to wrap his unrestrained imagination and profound and unique wisdom in a humorous way.
The themes of Woody Allen's works are inseparable from death, morality and sexuality. He never enjoys the subject of normalcy or deliberately ingratiating himself. On the contrary, all politics, culture, religion, sex, media, life, etc. are all used by him. object of sarcasm and ridicule
It should be added that his satire and ridicule are often based on a profound intellectual and cultural background, and he is called "the only intellectual in the American film industry" by the critical French.
Among the many works in his life, "Deconstruction of Love Mania" can be described as his crazy exploration and self-expression without conscience.
We know that as a creator, especially a novelist or screenwriter, it takes a lot of time to be inspired, conceived, written, felt, adjusted, and even in life, the brain keeps running.
And what the life they experience every day looks like, how they think every day, which the most ordinary people sometimes can't imagine.
Through "Deconstructing Harry", Woody Allen leads us to feel and enter the crazy brain of "how people who make a living from story creation experience the chaotic world where the virtual and the real are intertwined", and builds the film into a Vivid jumping incoherent reality and real "scumbag" story world
At the beginning of the story, the protagonist Harry Bullock, played by Woody Allen himself, is an old writer with a good reputation.
A girl came to his house angrily to find his theory, and seemed to have some deep hatred
As soon as the picture changed, it suddenly turned to a peaceful and beautiful countryside, a group of people were barbecuing outdoors, and one of the girls, Janet's husband - Ken - was watching a ball game in the room.
Janet's sister Leslie just happened to come into the room and met Ken who was watching the game. The two exchanged a few words on the surface, but they couldn't hide the desire to reveal each other in their eyes, so they hid in the room without a word. Afterwards enjoy family fun.
The screen suddenly turned back, back to Harry Bullock's home at the beginning of the film, and the angry girl just now held a book in her hand, yelling at him that her and his previous bad things were now known to the whole world.
It turned out that the picture of the countryside just now was a plot in Harry's novel, and the prototype of this plot came from Harry's personal cheating experience.
I can't help but be surprised when I see this: Does the story of this movie come from Woody Allen's personal experience?
At the very beginning of the movie, there was an explosive story about a man cheating with his wife and sister. Harry was compared to the head with a gun by the woman Lucy (that is, Harry's cheating object in the movie, and the character Leslie in the novel). After all, the family is ugly. Don't let it go. Anyone who puts this on will want to drag Harry out and shoot him ten times.
In a hurry, Harry told Lucy that the reason why he was so promiscuous might be because of his childhood problems.
At this time, the picture changes again, and the camera comes to Harvey, played by Tobey Maguire (player of the old spider), and Harvey is Harry himself in the novel as a young incarnation.
He entered married life at a very young age, but married life did not make him feel sexual. He had seen a psychiatrist and revealed to the psychiatrist that he had the urge to sleep with her on a pillow with any other woman he saw.
By chance, his colleague introduced him to a prostitute and told him that professional prostitutes could make him feel professional service based on their professional ethics. There was a childlike light in Harvey's eyes.
It happened that a friend of his was in the hospital due to an accident, and this friend had a nice big house just in time for him to get a health care service.
Just as he was lingering on the service of the prostitutes, there was a knock on the door of his friend's room, but when he opened the door, it was a god of death, telling him that he was here to take him today.
No matter how Harvey explained that this home is not his own, he just borrowed it temporarily for fun today. Death can't handle that much and took Harry out of the room.
I have to admire Woody Allen's brain hole, using the absurd plot of death to express Harry's "sense of guilt" in his heart, and at the same time adding "death should have taken away my friend, I am not guilty" This cry further strengthened Harry's unwillingness to admit that his inner "sense of guilt" was guilty.
Death said a very interesting thing here: "Yes, everyone has a reason, go, you little bastard". This sentence subtly satirizes most of the people in our real life who are clearly doing something wrong with a "sense of guilt" but find various reasons to escape or blame others.
Then the story cuts back to Harry, who is telling his psychiatrist about his painful experience with Lucy holding a gun to his head, and at the same time berating himself for his inability to eradicate his inexplicable sex addiction.
The psychiatrist listened to Harry describe his current pain and struggle, which reminded the doctor of a novel Harry had written earlier.
The camera switched to a set again, and an actor on the set was inexplicably unable to focus, and his whole body was blurred.
Seeing this, I had to kneel to Woody Allen again, and use the idea of "can't focus, the whole body is blurred" to express that a person does not have the focus of his own life now, and his cognition of himself is vague and ambiguous; at the same time, the people around him also "I can't see him clearly", I don't understand him.
And at the end of this story, the fuzzy man and his family found the doctor, and the doctor came to the conclusion after research - you are fine, to let others see you clearly, you can let others wear glasses
The camera cuts back to the conversation between Harry and the psychiatrist again. The psychiatrist goes straight to the point and accurately judges that the reason why Harry wrote the novel is because he subconsciously "wanted to change others so that he could adapt to the world."
It has to be said that Woody Allen used this simple story to put on the table the original motivation of "people around me don't understand me, they need to change" in our hearts
With a simple 3-paragraph opening, we are naturally drawn to Woody Allen's story structure and begin to put ourselves in the shoes of another person who, at first glance, is different from us, but who is at heart with us. in life
Subsequent stories continue to dig deep into Harry's pursuit of fleshly desires while experiencing unhappy emotional experiences.
He enjoys his female student's admiration for him, blends with her, but does not let the other person fall in love with him because of his family affairs; and when he learns that the female student is in love with another scumbag, he is jealous and wants the female student to love him. on yourself.
He was honored and admired for weaving wonderful stories from his own near-morbid life; but there was no real friend in his life with whom he could share the honor.
He saw his chaotic desires and life, but was unable to change it, so that he could only turn his life into an interesting work through the carrier of novels. Only by writing novels can he continue to maintain the enthusiasm for persevering in the abnormal life. Only in novels can he exert his artistic talents in life.
What's more interesting is that the story ends when the camera moves to Harry returning to the typewriter to write, and we find, oh! It turned out that all this is the story of Harry's novel. Think again, oh! It turns out that all this is the story of a Woody Allen movie!
What a surprise, a Russian nesting doll came along with a circular narrative!
If you are engaged in a lonely job, such as creation, art, design, full of all kinds of whimsical desires in life, but unable to find a reasonable balance in real life, endure the loneliness that only you seem to know about yourself , then "Deconstructing Love Mania" will definitely bring you interesting resonance
I love one of the sarcastic episodes where Harry fantasizes about going to hell to find the scumbag who stole his schoolgirl in order to get his schoolgirl. In the process of going to hell, you need to take an elevator:
Level 5: Subway robbers, aggressive beggars and book critics
Tier 6: Right-wing extremists, serial killers and lawyers on TV
Seventh floor: Media people, sorry this floor is full
Eighth floor: absconding war criminals, televangelists and the NRA
Bottom layer: everyone else
Arrogance, jealousy, anger, laziness, greed, gluttony, lust, isn't this the sin that exists more or less deep in each of us?
"Life is like a game of gambling in Las Vegas. Don't worry too much about winning or losing. You will definitely win in the casino. Enjoy this, and you can enjoy the gifts in life to the fullest."
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