The only certainty is constant change

Curtis 2022-03-26 09:01:08

I really love Woody Allen the nagging crazy old man.

His comedy is witty and sadistic, and comes from life. In my opinion, he is a director who dares to think and act. The way to tell, which is mixed with the wisdom of life. Although he is a nagging director, what he wants to show is not a long monologue, but a plot. Slowly put what he wants to show in front of you, his heart, his thoughts, his view of love, world view, values Wait, while the superficial views shown are pessimistic and cynical a lot of the time, I think he's an optimistic person, or he's a pessimistic and optimistic person like us, whatever.

The show satirizes life, religion, immutable beliefs, and judging everything on the surface.

Everyone in the play is a complex of contradictions. He believes in the coincidences, uncertainties and changes of things, but he is the male protagonist who can feel at ease according to a fixed schedule and lifestyle; he comes from a small town in the south and is full of freshness in everything. , The heroine who can absorb and tolerate anything but falls in love with the cynical, wise and stubborn hero at the beginning; of course, things will not be so smooth, because the husband and girlfriend cheated and were separated, traditional religious believers, only sex The mother of the heroine who is called tolerable arrived here, but she became a sexually open erotic artist; while feeling these emotions, the heroine's father came to a more stubborn religious believer, begging the heroine and mother to get back together, but they met in a bar gay, and completely opened her heart to admit her sexual orientation; the heroine, who had always believed in love, also met another young actor and fell in love. I think the best thing is that in the end, the male protagonist jumped off the building for the second time and fell on top of a woman who was walking a dog.

The more people who believe in their beliefs in the play, the greater the contrast between them, and finally abandon the so-called beliefs. I think they follow their environment to suppress their belief in God and pray devoutly, but why do they even do this? It is not clear that such so-called piety is the easiest to shake. It can be understood as a satire on religion and people's confused beliefs, or as a wonderful compliment to the impermanence of the world.

Therefore, living in the present is the normal state, and change is the most stable normal state. The only thing we can be sure of is change all the time.

What will I do in the future? What will it be like? Where will you live in the next ten years? Will he still be with me in the future? How do I know? I'm not so sure if the sun will rise tomorrow. follow your heart

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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?