"You can't bargain with the life you've examined"

Alia 2022-03-31 09:01:04

The story is told from the perspective of a bystander, so that the audience can always stand in an objective and calm position to watch the chaotic world shown by the one-and-a-half hour film. In this way, Woody Allen takes the audience to a fancy way to appreciate the Hollywood of the 1930s. At the same time, it focuses on the dialogue between the characters who embody the theme of the film.

"An unexamined life is not worth living, and you still can't bargain if you have examined it." This sentence combined with the theme of the film's change and immutability probably means this: time passes, people change, but the world does not law changes.

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Café Society quotes

  • Leonard: Socrates said, "The unexamined life is not worth living." But the examined one is no bargain.

  • Rose Dorfman: First a murderer, and now a Christian!