In the Japanese drama "Fraud Game", the most classic one is called the "Minority Decision". Everyone is required to write down the answer of "Yes" or "No" within the specified time. The side selected by a few people wins and enters the next round. The contestants achieve their goals by deceiving each other and forming cliques during the game.
This time in the melting pot of New York, the deceiver didn't seem to get any good ends, but the good ones had a happy ending.
The Manhattan in Woody Allen's 23rd work is a black and white image of colorful faces. It is a flame in the saturated and aging married life of the middle-aged and elderly detectives, and it is also a fraudulent tragedy hidden under intimacy.
In this adventure, the protagonists Lipton and his wife rescued each other's shaky marriage life. In a place like Manhattan, where they can have "everything", even if Carol Lipton tasted the forbidden fruit with her ambiguous friend Ted in a boring marriage, it is not incomprehensible. Although Larry Lipton (Carol's husband, played by Woody) is not as "like a boyfriend of first love" as Ted, he is blessed by this "adventure". Perhaps the best way to reshape the "perfect marriage", which is full of cracks, has some sort of answer.
Although at first glance it looks like a thought about love and immorality wrapped in a suspenseful shell, in the murderer Paul House, perhaps it can also be reversely understood as an uncontrolled selfish desire under the disguise of love and intimacy.
Woody Allen's murder has never had thrilling music passages and fast-paced editing. Everything seems to happen naturally, just like this person was killed. Different from the first-person sorrow in "Game Point" or "Kassandra's Dream", in the Manhattan scene, the people involved in the case are at best the third, fourth, or fifth, half-hearted." The approach of "handling a case" adds a touch of comedy.
Paul's appearances are often invisible, and we don't even know whether he is dealing with the "family" of the murder or his lover. His flawed "perfect murder" was like a whim, the conjoined tombstone mentioned in the chat, the spring breeze of his wife's "fake death" the next day, the hotel room 611 that suddenly turned on his wife and the falling ring... It looks like it's been planned for a long time. He is more like a guide for clues. All conjectures, hypotheses, and unknown temperament exposure, suspicion and jealousy occurred on the four-person dining table of the "outsiders" and in the sedan where the two were alone.
Behind the advancement of the clues is actually the evolution of the relationship between the characters. The hidden ambiguity between Carol and Ted is only full of intense discussion of the case or silence when the two are alone. Carol and Larry have countless humorous bickering and mocking each other. The dialogue between Carol and Larry presents the state of the relationship between the two: "Do you think we will be like this too?" "We are already boring elderly couples." "Will we become a pair of comfortable old shoes?" "Never I haven't been comfortable, so don't worry." Including Carol mentioned that a certain woman is not suitable for Ted and thought she was timid, Larry said that Ted was also a little bit, two daring people just got together to eat cheese. Although there is no comment on Larry's humor in the film (more on Carol's boring marriage), Carol's laughter is enough to prove that this charm is some way to maintain their marriage.
At the end of the film, Paul’s old lover Dalton and him started a 10-second “gunfight” in a theater full of mirrors. In the end, Paul fell to the ground and died in this place that carries his extramarital history: Already It's the "broken glass" Dalton of the past, and the "new glass" Helen that will be replaced after the theater is renovated.
When Larry rushed to save the beauty and broke into the theater, the "Miss Shanghai" on the screen also explained another similar fate: it was also a seamless plan, and was also caught by breaking into two unexpected people. upset. In "Miss Shanghai", the fate of those two people is death, but here they are reborn.
Nowadays, judging whether you are smart or not is no longer based on the so-called IQ as the standard, but to see whether a person is full of strong curiosity and continuous interest in exploring things. Marriage is also like a "battle" of continuous exploration. No one can refuse to serve with "lumbar disc herniation".
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