Falling in love is not difficult

Angela 2022-04-21 09:01:27

The best movies in the world can be roughly divided into two categories. One is that the whole is not novel, but the truth is revealed in the clichés and is contagious; the other is that at least one aspect is unconventional, or the theme, or the plot, or the picture will always turn to unexpected corners and bring surprises. Many good directors will have several masterpieces that belong to the latter category, but I am afraid that most of them are good works of the former category. However, Woody Allen, a little old man, is not willing to be lonely, but he must create some bright spots in each of his films. .
However, it may not be accurate to say each one, because I have not read all of them, but compared with his famous work "Annie Hall" and the latest "Love in Rome", more than 30 years later, the style is consistent in the same line. Undiminished, it is indeed very difficult to be deeply labeled as "Woody Allen". However, compared with "Annie Hall", the follow-up works are somewhat conservative in some respects, and the film's anti-traditional shooting method has become the most unique scenery. For example, he will communicate with the audience, he will pull a passerby to discuss love, he will write the words in his heart directly with letters, he will travel back in time to talk to his childhood teacher, and he will argue endlessly with the soul of his lover, and he will naturally leave no trace, no one would classify it as a magic type. Being in the play and jumping out at any time, needless to say skill, courage alone is not something that directors who follow the rules can do.
And of course his chattering way of speaking, which, frankly, annoys me. Just like the "never join a club with members like me" joke he told in the movie, he knew that he was not a qualified person to communicate with, and he behaved strangely, spoke in a cloudy manner, and did not know why. During the whole movie watching, I had a feeling of discomfort, it reminded me that when I was in school, there would always be one or two "weird people" in the class. Keep others away. The image of Woody Allen was probably born out of it. A mortal like me is separated by many mountains, rivers and rivers, insurmountable.
Dale Keaton's acting as Annie Hall is another highlight. (Well, I'm not familiar with her, the name was given to me by damselfly) Such a girl is a bit crazy and rational, and it is difficult to grasp such a cute performance. However, her performance in the movie was perfect, especially when she first met Woody Allen, she felt quite a failure when she spoke, with a helpless expression on her face, or a sentence that made her laugh out of control first, such a performance seemed deliberately , and very natural, comfortable and pleasant to look at.
In the play, Woody Allen's view of love is to improve the education of the other party, buy her books, let her see a psychiatrist, and try to make her agree with him. This arbitrary approach will eventually kill love. I've always believed that two people should have the same values ​​together, and nothing else matters. Similar can resonate harmoniously, and different can complement each other. As long as two people communicate with each other, treat each other as equals, and love each other, it is really not a difficult thing.

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Annie Hall quotes

  • Annie Hall: This tie is a present from Grammy Hall.

    Alvy Singer: Who? Grammy? Grammy Halls?

    Annie Hall: Yeah, my Grammy.

    Alvy Singer: What? You're kidding. What did you do, grow up in a Norman Rockwell painting?

  • Annie Hall: Some of her poems seem - neat.

    Alvy Singer: Neat?

    Annie Hall: Neat, yeah.

    Alvy Singer: Uh, I hate to tell yuh, this is 1975, you know that "neat" went out, I would say, at the turn of the century.