Slowly began to feel the charm of black and white movies.
At that time, the set and composition were very rigorous and delicate. "Rhapsody in Blue", the classical music of old-school movies that I always thought was ugly when I was a child was really good.
Personally, this one beats Annie Hall, who fell in love with the New York and WA monologue in the opening sequence, or maybe it's because of his breathless run at the end of the movie, or that grudging laugh. I really don't know why he doesn't like his performance in it.
It's Allen's love letter to New York, where the lives of New York's middle-class intellectuals are described here in nuanced detail.
The four women are obviously more interesting than the two old men Issac and Yale, especially Tracy and Mary, one is young and has a pure and passionate love (the girl turns out to be Hemingway's granddaughter... The last scene is really beautiful); one is A typical female Wenqing, smart and beautiful, likes to flaunt her own uniqueness, but is very sensitive and insecure at the same time. Aunt May was so young at that time. The first time I watched her was "The Devil Wears Prada", 1979-2016. It felt like seeing Natalie Portman in "Black Swan", and the impression was that she was like when she was a child. And Emily was portrayed by her words: I think if you haven't introduced Mary to Yale, this might never happened.
Yale has always been a driving element in the whole movie. On the other hand, it is a little moderate, but his words "I love her first!" also amused me too much.
If I liked his movies before, I would be more like an old friend watching his movies after this one, and the corners of my mouth could not stop rising at the slightly neurotic thoughts in his films.
Most of his films are not a happy process, but I can't help laughing while watching, as if they are always talking about such silly things: psychiatrist, New York, Jews, tennis, philosophy, art , Bergman, a ridiculous academic intellectual, keeps dropping the book bag, jokes about sex, love and marriage, not driving, being vulnerable, escaping from life... These elements are the so-called "Comparative Woody Allen" style films.
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