I am usually under a lot of pressure. Reading books will be tiring, meeting friends will be worrying, and time will never be enough. Looking back on the past year, it seems that I haven't stopped to watch a movie or listen to a CD. For professional reasons, I always try to analyze, explain and criticize. I've always been complacent about my good artistic sense, but it gradually left me, if not regressed.
Personally, "Manhattan" is not a so-called art film. It is nothing more than a story about the love between two men, two women and four little people. Mary is Yale's extramarital lover, and Yale's friend Isaac met Mary by accident. Mary was forced to break up with Yale due to morality, and Isaac quickly fell in love with Mary. After breaking up with girlfriend Tracy, Isaac and Mary had a wonderful time. But Mary and Yale couldn't be without each other, and Isaac felt slightly humiliated. In the end, Isaac hopes to restore Tracy's love. The story itself isn't necessarily fascinating, but the two love threads of the protagonist Isaac, from his sneering nose at Mary's ego to the two falling in love, from his ditching his 17-year-old girlfriend for some reason, to being humiliated and getting the idea that he's about to fly to London. Mary's comfort, although they are all straightforward, but the emotional tension in it enriches the character and supports the story.
Isaac is a writer. I quit my job because I was dissatisfied with the pig teammates. Dumped my little girlfriend because I fell in love with someone else. He once said to Mary, "Some things can't be understood with reason", and he twice taught Tracy not to be too mature. But the fact is, whether naive or mature, emotional or rational, there will always be problems. Isaac thinks Mary is too rational and understands too much, but she is such a woman who messes up her emotions. He himself did the same, but in the opposite direction. Mary's departure, and Yale's defense, made Isaac feel like he was being tricked. When Tracy was about to leave for London, Isaac begged her to stay like a poor child. A girl who is almost 30 years younger than him has to convince him, "Not everyone changes, you have to have some confidence in others". Seeing this, I don't know what to say. Isaac, who usually seems to have penetrated his life, always avoids Tracy with age and sex, but at this moment he is so vulnerable.
The film doesn't criticize or promote anything, just a fluid narrative and visuals, and an inadvertent thought-provoking. I was captivated by this kind of brilliance, which usually relieved my boredom with large movies. I felt that the speed of life was slowed down and my breathing was smooth. In fact, when I was in high school and college, I often watched movies, and they were very small and artistic. But now, it is more and more rare to be in the mood to touch art.
Last but not least, the music, the old show. The clarinet portamento clip at the opening of the film has become a calling card for New York City. do not have it? This card is also included in Disney's animated film Fantasia 2000. The piece is called "Rhapsody In Blue", and the composer is George Gershwin, a New York-born Russian-Jewish descendant who wrote jazz-style symphonies. "Blue" was composed in 1924 and is said to have been conceived by Gershwin on the train between New York and Boston. He put it this way: “People hear it like they see a kind of American kaleidoscope of music — our huge melting pot, our unparalleled national enthusiasm, the madness of our big cities.” Indeed. Half a century later, Woody Allen, also a native of New York, stuffed it into the movie, not only in the title, but also in the middle of the movie. As for the rest of the music, it seems to have been written by Gershwin. It's unbelievable how the music of fifty years ago and the movies of fifty years later fit together so well.
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