For me, a small fresh movie is: take the painful dilemma in life as the material and then add literary and artistic elements to flavor it. Either Asperger’s disease or the beauty pageant, a girl who is 15 years old and has a child is at least a gimmick, right? I have forgotten that this kind of documentary processing work, of course, cannot be done by this master of humor who blossoms inside the wall. He doesn't even have the intention to find a new point. After so many years of filming, is he afraid that he doesn't have his own set? Just take a look at the familiar New York, and just mix up some typical ones: the university professor in the middle-age crisis felt that the relationship with his wife had come to an end, and in despair, he committed suicide and lost his job and started a cynical loser career; The simple little beautiful girl from the southern stilt family came to stage under the same roof for no reason, and was so impressed by the old man's theory that she crossed the "race" barrier to wash her hands and make soup for him. The southern mother with perfect breasts came to New York to receive the baptism of Bohemia and modern art, while the old-fashioned man in the small place finally raised the rainbow flag to the world... What an American collage! It's a pity, isn't it a bit outdated? It's like an overly perfect fake nose, upright and upright, and it can always be seen in the photos at a glance.
The antagonism of values between the city and the country, the debate between religion and atheism, the confusion of the middle-aged and the confusion of young people, the meaning of love and life... I chose these shocking propositions, but used a story that is purely fictional and awkward. Woody Allen may be too credulous in his philosophy, whatever works.
A bad line drama will only remind people of those silent but beautiful master films with admiration. From start to finish, there is only one intellectual, world-weary, chattering uninterestingly for an hour and a half, and even the dialogue in the CW youth drama is more valuable than it.
Where is the director and screenwriter who can always write interesting lines? It's a pity that the memorable dialogue between men and women in the offensive and defensive warfare in the last "Midnight Barcelona" has not been able to continue. The only thing you can see from the protagonist, the furious middle-aged manipulative confession, is his superficial display: right-wing, anti-God, skepticism, pessimistic philosophy, Heisenberg's theorem, and self-deprecating self-deprecating-"Look, I It’s not that I look down on others, I also look down on myself first!”
There is no character in the movie who has such an eagerness to tag himself and jump out, telling everyone, “Hey, I’m the director’s spokesperson”, which makes the whole “New York soulmate” "Story" has become a self-blasphemy of the director forcing others to watch.
No matter how disappointed I was before, at the end of the film, the protagonist's summary statement when we celebrated the New Year still shocked me. Too... preaching, this kind of textbook-style summary of life is rare even in the current domestic movies. If you look at the economic situation and international relations, it will be a ready-made American President’s New Year’s TV speech, but I would rather watch it. Obama's speech was at least more sincere and personable.
If this terrible film has not been thrown away from my memory so quickly, it must be because the title is the mantra that keeps popping out of the protagonist's mouth—whatever works. Although this sentence lacks originality, it is just It's just that. Just as Tian Zhuangzhuang said that some successful Chinese directors now have a condescending sense of "one hill per person", perhaps the old Woody also thinks that the status has reached the point of being able to make films as they please. But "whatever is OK" does not work at all times when it comes to making movies. It is said that Rohmer only makes movies for 700 people, but no one can make movies only for himself, even Woody Allen. no.
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