"The screen is not a window to the world, the screen is the world." "Everyone of us yearns for an illusory world. Even if we are lucky enough to discover the possibility of getting there, it is difficult to break with the real world." You can fantasize, you can daydream, you can indulge in it, but please don't work hard for it. When you are smashed and bruised by the gravitational constraints of reality, you will find that something is a paradise you can never reach. Movies are an escape from reality, and dreams are the antidote to despair. From Cecilia's face I saw Kabylia, and behind Woody Allen was Fellini. The inspiration for the play of the old man naturally came from Keaton's [Little Holmes], but its meaning and position in film ontology should surpass that of "Annie Hall". It is entirely possible to practice Lacan or Zizek. At the end, Mia Farrow had a Mona Lisa-like smile.
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