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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  • Claude 2022-03-28 09:01:06

    Talking about the old man is one of the characteristics of Woody Allen's films. Every old man will YY take in a young loli and exchange her rich "life experience" for her pink and Feifei's youth. "The world is made up of meaningless blind opportunities. Even the universe All are disintegrating, how can we never be apart?" PS Vocabulary-rich movie

  • Elody 2022-03-27 09:01:12

    That snarky old Woody is back, and this is the Woody Allen I like. The substitution just weakens the influence of the old Woody's personal image and simplifies the role. A lot of self-irony facing the camera, the division strengthens the sense of film, and the style appears more casual and complete. The story goes around in a circle from oneself and then comes back to oneself, those beliefs and stubbornness in the face of life are some interesting farts. "Anything will do", it's good to find yourself anyway.

Whatever Works quotes

  • Leo Brockman: You know, I have to say, even with a text book right wing mentality, your mother-in-law has beautifully shaped breasts.

    Boris Yellnikoff: You know, you-your a man of learning, of cultivation, of aesthetic sensibility, this is what you take away from all that school prayer hokum and my country right or wrong? Her bosom?

    Leo Brockman: Its not just her bosom! Her behind is also beautifully contoured.

    Boris Yellnikoff: Well, I'm sure you'll have no problem getting her to bed. She's vulnerable. She's stupid and she's been abandoned. Personally, I lose all erotic inclination when the woman's a member of the National Rifle Association.

    Leo Brockman: It's pear shaped. Degas used to distinguish between an apple shaped behind and pear shaped. And I'm a big fruit eater.

  • Marietta: [Walking up to a wax figure of Donald Trump in Madame Tussauds Wax Museum] Oh, sweet pea, sweet pea, this is the kind of man you should be married to. Not that communist who sings happy birthday every time he washes his hands.

    Melodie St. Ann Celestine: How long are you staying, Mom?