The movies of Mr. Allen have always amazed me. The light and retro piano soundtrack, bright and bright pictures, and seductive handsome men and women constitute the familiar Woody Allen formula.
About the title
The translation of "irrational man" may seem a little confusing if you just read the title without watching the film. "Unreasonable" often implies unreasonable, unreasonable, and unreasonable in Chinese meaning, but the English "rational" is more suitable to be translated as "rational". Aristotle believes that human beings are born rational, and Western philosophy follows this tradition, advocating the materialization of cause and effect with reason, thus forming a plausible theory (theory).
Interestingly, it is Rita's nuts theory about Abe that runs through the second half of the film:
"It's a crazy theory, but it's not".
The old man's lines are always so full of contradictions and irony.
A university philosophy professor with a prominent academic position and a reckless behavior seems to have seen everything in the world during the midlife crisis, and he has no interest in life, and he wants to die. Overheard in a coffee shop by chance overheard a woman complaining about the bias of the judge in the divorce proceedings, Abe decides this is when he will put his moral teaching into action - he wants justice for the victim, silent murder Judge, because "hoping is just hope; it never comes true".
From the moment he made up his mind, Abe's life was revived, he could regain his glory, he began to teach continental philosophy in class, and even broke his romantic precepts and fell in love with his students, and all this was just a whim The effect of "acts of justice".
The male protagonist in the play is undoubtedly selfish, as his teaching content jumps from analytic philosophy to continental philosophy, all he cares about is the meaning of all these actions to himself, and when the police target an innocent person as a Murder suspect, faced with the dilemma of surrendering or being silent, he held back.
Fate is so ridiculous, when you want to die, you always have the better luck; and when you just start to love the beauty of the world, fate can't wait to pronounce the death penalty. In the end, the male protagonist lost to the "good luck" he once sneered at, and the flashlight won by guessing the prize was "as he wished", sending him into the abyss of death. The logic of this film makes people involuntarily think of another classic "American Beauty", both of which staged a living lesson of not cherishing life, and successfully constituted my annual horror film .
After watching the film, I can't help but be troubled by a question: why Abe? It is undeniable that the two protagonists are both ironic to the extreme, ridiculous, selfish and pitiful. The heroine is just pursuing an exciting adventure, as Abe said sharply, "It's not me that you fall in love with, but the concept of falling in love with your teacher . "
But fortunately, the heroine has a warm family, an accommodating boyfriend and the confidence from the middle class, while the hero and his colleague Rita are just middle-aged and boring university professors, full of "poetry books" but empty "theories". In retrospect, their "theory" was nothing more than a crumbling castle in the air out of life, and the day-to-day repetition of real life was so easy to destroy.
Perhaps cherishing what is in front of you is the most sensible choice to share the luck of life. You will neither regret living your life in vain when you wake up, nor pretend to be smart while living your life in vain.
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