It was such a smelly and hard old man who "picked" an innocent girl Melody (Evan Rachael Wood) who had run away from Mississippi at the door. This old and one young, Pear Blossom Begonia, Beauty Beast, considering Woody Allen's own turbulent history of indecent love, the following plot is not difficult to guess. But the story does not stop here. Of course, Marietta, the mother of Melody, played by Patricia Clarkson, will appear on the stage. From housewives to artists, from conservative southern believers to the unruly one, queen, two, threesome, I really don’t know this is a plot need. It's still the old Woody's own sexual fantasies.
But the plot in a typical Woody Allen movie has always been a foil and aid to dialogue. Of course, the most amazing thing about "Anything" is Woody's ridicule, teasing, insult, and sarcasm that Boris said, from the movie itself to religious beliefs, from sordid humanity to random luck. When Boris was talking on the wooden bench in the park about why he needs a driver’s license for driving, a chef’s license for cooking, and a teacher’s license for his teacher, but parents don’t need a license to have children and raise children, I can’t help clapping and laughing, wishing to yell. : I have said the same thing a long time ago!
Many of these cynical speeches, from one generation to the next, are not novel and original. In fact, "Anything" is full of the shadow of Woody Allen's old work, and these cynical things that Boris said in 2009 Remarks are no different from Woody's mockery of marriage, family, love, sex, government, politics, sports and other social life since the 1960s. Marietta's threesome "Midnight Barcelona" has been played, luck determines everything Argument is the central idea of "The End of the Match", and the reckless behavior of the worms in the "Sex Book" has long been laughed with laughter. But the success is that all of this has been systematically summarized in a movie: old and young love, three-person love, homosexuality, all unreasonable and unbelievable crazy elements are gathered together, and the only applicable principle in chaos and disorder is only one: Whatever Works, how to get strong, go to his tradition, go to his religion, go to his order, as long as you are happy, you can do anything.
Not only that, the protagonist Boris also "breaks the fourth wall" and directly speaks to the audience. This technique is of course not uncommon, but it is still very understanding when combined with Boris's "genius" argument. In the whole movie, Boris is the only character who sees the scenery behind the "fourth wall", which coincides with his life attitude of breaking the order and living outside the "box".
In fact, we need to analyze carefully, what this "Anything" expresses and what it summarizes are lacklustre-nothing new, and no new style. But it is extremely unforgettable. It seems that Woody Allen's half-century of life philosophy and artistic style dialogue are all infused in it. Haha, a salted and pickled olive, which is enough for people to chew slowly for a long time.
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