This "Bullets Over Broadway" is as he always does, Woody Allen devotes himself to a wild story trying to discuss an important but useless topic - art, artists and most of us who have no connection with it.
The series of experiences of the drama director David in the film, in my eyes, is the process of an artistic youth escaping from the "strange situation" in art. The transformation of his understanding of art is fully expressed in the film: at the beginning of the film, he argues with his boss in the office whether the script can be put on the stage or not, and the casting issue must be who and who; in the middle of the film, he Gradually agree with other people's changes to his script, and can tolerate the poor performance of the sponsor's lover; later, he jumps at the killer and yells "You are an artist, I am a human!" At the end of the film, he Go back to your girlfriend and say to her calmly, "I love you. I'm not an artist." Art youths have come back to life from the "strange situation" of art, and those who are attached to it and can't get out of it will either be killed or continue to enjoy it painfully.
From a normal person's point of view, I fully understand and agree with the choice of artistic youth, and I believe that Woody Allen and his old man want to express the same thing - art is too dangerous, I am still a mortal safely, and I am doomed Can only be a mortal. The killer is the most artistic person in the whole film. It seems that there are two completely different industries, the killer and the playwright. In fact, they have a common feature in the depths, absurdity. One lives in the absurd, and the other is dedicated to expressing the absurd. . The reason why the killer's story can successfully impress artistic youth and large audiences is that his personal experience has shaped a flawed personality. And it is precisely among the people I have come into contact with who I think have the artistic temperament that the unsound personality is a common feature of them. Interestingly, as this flawed personality matures, the parts of their new works that were originally art in my eyes disappeared. In fact, this kind of judgment on the integrity of the personality may also be unjust. It represents the values of the majority of people in society, the pursuit of happiness, and as little violence and conflict as possible, and the people who most often lead to the latter are Become a lunatic or an artist.
One of the funniest jokes I've seen before describing this point: Poets are better off between the lines, and if he lives next door to you, it's a joke.
After watching the movie, I am more certain that I feel the same as the young artist David. I really want to be an artist, but luckily I am not. I regret that my upbringing only taught me to be a mediocre good citizen, but I am very fortunate that this experience at least allowed me to live a relatively normal life. Moreover, for art, I can still pursue it wishful thinking, and even the posture I pursue can be extremely moving, but it is better to have less fantasy like "being an artist". It's important to think about metaphysical issues like art and life, but it's also so useless. I think that the answers of ordinary people have been written long ago, and the answers of artists are only known to them.
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