People become sentimental at midnight, and this sentimentality creates a feeling of reminiscing about a certain period in one's own past. In this way, a kind of synaesthesia is created, and every midnight seems to be transported to a bygone era. This is how Fitzgerald recalled the American jazz age. And Woody Allen playfully deconstructs Fitzgerald in the same way.
The carriage in "Midnight in Paris" is the "sentimentality" that kidnaps us. And the thesis about Fitzgerald and Hemingway in the film also proves that Woody Allen's Paris story is not a simple "travel". It has nothing to do with Paris, and it has nothing to do with love. It is a literary commentary on the writers of the "lost generation" in the United States, but it is only slightly playful and ironic. And the way of talking about the origin of American romantic literature also weakens the seriousness of the issues he discusses and the charm of the film itself.
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