This is the first Allen's work I've seen. The title of the movie has a dreamy and beautiful feeling, a touch of melancholy and helplessness.
There is such a comment on Sogou, if someone has been to heaven in a dream, and gets a flower as a testimony to have been to heaven. And when she woke up and found this flower in her hands, what would it be like? This is a magical imagining from Coleridge once quoted by Borges, this flower of paradise is like Borges said elsewhere: "A miraculous thing containing terrifying horrors." And This purple rose of Cairo is the flower of Colelio.
The story takes place in the 1930s, in the era of economic crisis in the history textbooks. I still vaguely remember the scene where some merchants dumped food into the sea and would rather throw it away than send it to people to satisfy their hunger. It is hard to imagine the extent to which human nature has been destroyed. Movie background. When a society falls into a quagmire, every family is not immune. With the heroine Cecilia being beaten countless times by her drunken husband and fired countless times by the restaurant owner for her clumsiness, it seems like the movie is the only thing that can get her out of the real world and throw herself into the conversation. And when she saw the film for the fifth time, the actor Tom on the screen suddenly came out of it and expressed his gratitude and admiration to her.
It is completely the routine of a romance novel, full of surprises and surprises.
Allen seems to be very keen to show this supernatural thing, which can also be seen in "Scoop", but it is amazing that people in the movie seem to accept this supernatural in an instant, even with the audience. I will care about the absurdity in this, as if this is a normal thing. For example, people in the movie can directly talk to reality, and the dead can also ask the surviving people to fulfill their wishes.
Tom is handsome, loyal, and lovely. He is completely isolated from this depressed society and easily captures Cecilia's heart, but he does not belong to this world after all. In contrast to the real Jill, he The light on his body also dimmed.
In the end, Tom returned to the screen, Jill went to Hollywood, and Cecilia still got nothing.
Allen used this film to tell us that in the tragic reality, you can dream, but you will eventually wake up.
At the end, Cecilia could only go to the cinema to anesthetize herself. The cinema no longer showed her favorite movie, but a musical instead, and she smiled amid the singing and dancing. In my opinion, this smile represents a compromise and makes people sober. Reality can't struggle, so you can only learn to adapt.
The film is full of irony and criticism. There is a scene in which Tom is dating Cecilia and entertaining her, but he does not know that the money in the film cannot be consumed in real life. Couldn't afford the meal and had to run away with Cecilia. This has actually heralded the end of the story. Apart from the initial surprise and emotion, they are simply people from two worlds. The illusory world can be very bright on the surface, but it is bitter and tasteless in essence. The illusory world in the movie can be copied and destroyed at any time. No matter what the world in the movie is, it will not have any effect on the real life. substantial impact. Cecilia wandered between the cruel reality and the illusory movie world, and finally she gave up the movie world, but at the same time she was abandoned by the cruel real world. '
Joyful pessimism, a word that came up repeatedly when I searched for material on the film. The basic information of the movie shows that this is a comedy, but the ending is not comedy at all, which undoubtedly forms a sharp contrast. Through simple and happy stories, it reflects the pain and emptiness of people's spiritual world, and constantly explores the hidden hidden in people's hearts. Contradiction and pain.
Another outstanding feature of the film is the use of magic realism techniques, and Borges is also a rare magic realism writer in South America. As mentioned at the beginning, the purple rose of Cairo and the flower of Coleus are essentially the same.
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