The sourness of salted olives---the fetish of old man Woody

Eloy 2022-03-24 09:02:28

Before getting married, I often asked myself, can I accept a man older than me? How old is the limit?

In fact, many women like old men. Old men can be very sexy because of their experience and wisdom. Coupled with that time-honored, thorny humor, and arrogance and self-abasement entanglement, it is actually a fatal attraction for many women.

Is this the so-called "mature taste"?

Woody Allen is a funny old man whose movies always make people smile. A young literary woman like me couldn't put it down even more.

The old man in Whatever works, how to see how there is a shadow of Woody.

The old man Boris graduated from the physics department of a famous school, and has been shouting that he was "almost nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physics". He is a genius, and has a dark pessimism about the world and society. After breaking up with his wife inexplicably, he attempted suicide by jumping off a building, and made a living by teaching children chess for the elderly.

What a vulgar and exciting meeting of an old man and a young girl.

A beautiful girl who ran away from home was picked up at the door of the house. Melody. 21 years old, innocent and romantic, beautiful and cute. As a result, the temporary shelter became a tenant, and the tenant became a husband and wife. Melody admired the old man's genius thinking very much, and resolutely fell into the old man's arms.

Is this love? Is it worship? Or some other entanglement.

Woody Allen himself is married to his adopted daughter, who is 30 years his junior. In fact, everyone is happy to see this kind of incestuous love. It feels infinitely free and infinitely beautiful, and you can also get lustful satisfaction from others.
I am also happy to see this kind of love, whether it is Lao Lao and Weng Fan, or Woody Allen and his adopted daughter, or even Morgan Freeman and his step-daughter, in fact, they are all interesting and beautiful.
After all, who can set a template and framework for love?

But the story doesn't stop at the young and old couple. Melody's parents suddenly appeared.
First the mother, a typical middle-class woman. Housework and children make up my entire life. Restraint and forbearance are decent and beautiful. However, they separated due to her husband's infidelity. After seeing my daughter with the old man, I experienced double stimulation, which led to the development of personality in the direction of hippies. Completely turned into a pioneering artist. Photography, painting, threesome, no taboo.

Father also came. Seeing daughter and changed wife. Erupted. I suddenly realized that the source of my unfortunate marriage was that I had been GAY without realizing it. With the encouragement of his wife and daughter, he became a beloved GAY.

At the end of the film, the girl and the old man are separated. But goodbye is also a friend. Everyone has their own better home. These days have become fond memories.

I like the old man, slyly looking at the screen and talking to the audience, as if he can penetrate that world and come to us.

I like the old man's incisive comments on the world and love. Whether people say Woody and the old man are talkative, or the salted olives are bitter and astringent, I am deeply impressed by him.

"Let me tell you what love is. Of course, I'm not talking about absolutes. There must be exceptions. But they are only exceptions, and they won't affect the rules. Love this thing, no matter what others tell you, It can't conquer everything, and it can't be eternal. At the end of the day, the romantic dreams of youth fade into anything."

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Whatever Works quotes

  • [first lines]

    Boris Yellnikoff: That's not what I'm saying, imbecile. You guys completely misrepresent my ideas, why would I even want to talk with those idiots.

    Boris' Friend: Just calm down.

    Boris' Friend: That's not true, Boris.

    Boris Yellnikoff: No, don't tell me to calm down, I am calm. Just stop.

    Boris' Friend: Don't jump on us just because we don't understand what you're saying.

    Boris Yellnikoff: I didn't jump on you. It's not the idea behind Christianity I'm faulting, or Judaism, or any religion. It's the professionals who've made it into corporate business. There's big money in the god racket, big money.

    Boris' Friend: Here we go...

  • Boris Yellnikoff: Don't you know you have to sing happy birthday twice to get the germs off?