The structure of the film is very anti-Hollywood. The first set of shots directly looks at the audience, destroys the dream, and tells you that life is as boring as the movie. Or to tell you plainly, you spent 20 dollars to go to the cinema to watch this movie, which is a brain water in itself. Life is a kind of luck as long as you are alive, so don't force too much on perfection, whatever works, whatever works. You can only commit suicide in the end if you force perfection, but Larry's suicide failed in two sessions, but was accepted again by society, and the final outcome was Enough cliche, but maybe this is life, and life is cliche. Woody thinks more about life, so he is indeed old, but not as premature as Bergman, who has long considered death and the subject of death ("The Seventh Seal"). Can only continue to wait for woody to film!
In addition, the authentic translation of the title should be Love!
I just watched the new Woody Allen & Larry David movie--Whatever Works. All I want to say is that I just want Woody to live longer and keep his one-year-one-moive pace for another 10 years. It's hard to imagine this man is 73 years old now and still make those excellent movies every year.
Sure Michalengelo Antonioni is still making movies at the age of 92, but he is either the codirector or only directing the short films like Eros(2004).Plus he only shot one movei in 7-8 years. I adore Woody's energy, even though he still looks like an impotent scholar.
Woody Allen is the only shame I have in my 10 years DVD scavenging experience. It's easy to get a whole collection of Hitchcock, Bergman, Stanley Kubrick and even oliver stone. But Woody Allen with his 45 and increasing movies are not easy to collect. I refused 4 times to buy the box set of Woody Allen DVD box, for I know this old man is going to have some new surprise. Well, Whatever Works is definitely a surprise. Even though the moive is about Life-is -Cliche and the ending is unbearable cliche, it is still freshy. I don't want to ruin it by telling details to the one who haven't watched it. It's now in my top 3 Woody Allen movie list, probably better than Annie Hall, Manhatton ,The Purple Rose of Cairo and Everything You Need Know About Sex
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