Annie Hall

Garret 2022-04-19 09:01:28

The movie is not long, but the dialogue is so suffocating, and it may be that I don't know enough about American culture, so I didn't get a lot of memes and humor. But it can be seen that "500 Days with Summer" and "Midnight in Barcelona" were greatly influenced by this film. The contradiction and hypocrisy of the male protagonist Ivy are too obvious. He blindly wants the other party to change, but he does not want to change. At first, he disliked Annie's lack of culture, and later made Annie literate and disliked her success. I feel This is simply a portrayal of many people in reality... In the end, Ivey even saw Ah Q's spiritual victory method in the play written by Ivey... The two of them went to the psychiatrist at the same time and the filming was great, you made me become If I get a better person, am I going to go against my feelings to make you happy? Both are willing to understand each other, and both are willing to make changes and concessions, so that the relationship can be maintained. It is always impossible for one party to change himself to please the other. Woody Allen always likes to use his own movies to illustrate his views on love, and this movie is (supposedly) his most classic one, of course, is no exception. Woody Allen finds it irrational and absurd that one thinks of oneself as a chicken (love), but we still need the chicken because of what it gives us, the egg (happiness, passion) , companionship, love, sex), is what we all need.

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  • Alvy Singer: I'm so tired of spending evenings making fake insights with people who work for "Dysentery."

    Robin: "Commentary."

    Alvy Singer: Oh really? I had heard that "Commentary" and "Dissent" had merged and formed "Dysentery."

  • Allison: I'm in the midst of doing my thesis.

    Alvy Singer: On what?

    Allison: Political commitment in twentieth century literature.

    Alvy Singer: You, you, you're like New York, Jewish, left-wing, liberal, intellectual, Central Park West, Brandeis University, the socialist summer camps and the, the father with the Ben Shahn drawings, right, and the really, y'know, strike-oriented kind of, red diaper, stop me before I make a complete imbecile of myself.

    Allison: No, that was wonderful. I love being reduced to a cultural stereotype.

    Alvy Singer: Right, I'm a bigot, I know, but for the left.