Woody Allen himself talks about the meaning of this movie

Pearl 2021-10-18 09:29:41

From an interview with Woody Allen.
It is a recurring, nagging feeling of mine that the reality we're all trappd in is,in actual fact, if you dissect it, like a nightmare. I'm always looking for ways to escape that reality. One escapes it by going to the movies. One escapes it by becoming involved in the trivial nonsense of “Are the Yankees going to win?” or “Are the Mets going to win?” When in fact it means nothing. But life means nothing either. It means as much as the ballgame. So you're constantly looking for ways to escape from reality. And one of the fallacies that comes up all the time is the Golden Age fallacy, that you'd have been happier at a different time. Just as people think, “If I moved to Paris I'd be happier” or “If I moved to London…” Then they do, and they're not. Even though these places are great, they're not happier,because it isn't the geography that's eating them up, it's the existential reality of how grim a predicament we're in. So, I've played around with that before, the notion of wanting to get out of the real world, get out of time. Here, Owen does get a chance to go back, and it's fine. But he realizes as he looks around that those people want to go back too, and that it doesn't matter where you go, that life is unsatisfying whether you lived in the renaissance orla belle époqueor now or 100 years from now. It's an unsatisfying situation.But he realizes as he looks around that those people want to go back too, and that it doesn't matter where you go, that life is unsatisfying whether you lived in the renaissance orla belle époqueor now or 100 years from now. It's an unsatisfying situation.But he realizes as he looks around that those people want to go back too, and that it doesn't matter where you go, that life is unsatisfying whether you lived in the renaissance orla belle époqueor now or 100 years from now. It's an unsatisfying situation.

View more about Midnight in Paris reviews

Extended Reading
  • Claud 2021-10-20 19:00:34

    Another great publicity film of Paris city scenery, but also with the story.

  • Eileen 2021-10-20 19:00:36

    Paris is very beautiful, the movie is too American, the book bag is lost, the pseudo-literary youth, moved out of Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Porter, Picasso to pretend to be B, this is not romance, it is obscenity. Ten thousand people have ten thousand Paris in their hearts. Woody Allen has only romance in his eyes, so he only sees the romance he wants. In addition, they knew from the beginning that they would not be able to grow up, and wished to split up early.

Midnight in Paris quotes

  • Gil: What is it with this city? I need to write a letter to the Chamber of Commerce.

  • Ernest Hemingway: No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.