The film is about Woody Allen's best story. The heroine, like a noble canary, reluctantly bids farewell to her dream life and falls from Huamei to the grassroots, which is the focus of the story. Kate Winslet is the soul of the whole film. She has also done her homework and played the role's complex contradictions and tragedies. The film presents a 1950s holiday island full of nostalgia, reminiscent of Woody's classic "" The roller coaster in Annie Hall, the joy of amusement park packaging and representation, also contrasts sharply with the unbearable lives of the protagonists. Although the film's plot development is a bit of a Wonder Wheel, thankfully Kate Winslet's performance is impeccable enough to make people focus on her and discover the cause and effect of fate (or self-made tragedy) in her
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2022-03-10 08:01
Extended Reading
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Marques 2022-03-24 09:03:45
It's really a wall to push people, and a movie exposes Kate Winslet's hypocritical and shameless face!
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Lew 2022-03-24 09:03:45
Woody Allen's new film is essentially a stage play that takes place on the screen. The design of the main scene using different tones of lighting to emphasize different atmospheres and emotions reflects DP's full excavation and presentation of materials. Woody's sophisticated scheduling and Needless to say, the characters who are not endowed with good and evil are shackled by escalating situations and must choose between doing good and evil to escape, and the strong existential anxiety is still one of his author's marks.
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[first lines]
Mickey: [narrating] Coney Island, 1950's. The beach, the boardwalk. Once a luminous jewel, but growing relentlessly seedier as the tides roll in and out. Summers I work here on Bay 7. Comes the fall, I'm a student at New York University going for my Master's in European drama. I'm Mickey Rubin. Poetic by nature. I harbor dreams of being a writer. A writer of truly great plays, so I can one day surprise everyone and turn out a profound masterpiece.
Mickey: [to the camera] Anyhow. Let me get to the story in which I am a character, so, be warned, as a poet, I use symbols, and as a budding dramatist, I relish melodrama and larger-than-life characters. Enter Carolina...
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Mickey: [narrating] The kid makes fires. And not such little ones. He played hooky from summer school and even made fires on the beach where it's forbidden. What the hell does the kid see when he just stares into the flames? Is it the eternal power of the universe? The conversion of mass into energy? The Furies at work? Whatever his motive, it is not appreciated.