"A Rainy Day in New York" is a new movie by Woody Allen. I watched it with interest. Even though many people commented that he couldn't break out of his established framework, it's not his unique style. All the stories in the movie seem to be taken for granted, there is no bloody storm, but they are all so full of coincidences and unexpected changes of reasonable arrangements.
This is like a story that happened around you and me, with a touch of sweetness at the end, a touch of sudden realization, and a touch of regret.
The story itself is very simple. There is a small couple, the male protagonist is named Gatsby, and the female protagonist is named Ashley. The male protagonist is a rich second-generation in New York, but because of his rebellion, he went to Arizona to go to an unknown university. For him, it may be a way to experience the suffering of the people, and it is also a self-exile after escaping from the jurisdiction of a strong family; and The female protagonist is the daughter of a nouveau riche. She always runs a bank and works as a reporter for a university newspaper, showing her "I want" ambitions all over her face.
Originally, it’s okay for this little couple to have a love relationship in a small place, but the opportunity that the girlfriend fell from the sky to interview a famous director in Manhattan gave this story its own flower, and it also made the lovers. Facing a test of values.
There are many Cinderella routines in domestic movies. The rich second generation does not like the daughter of the family, but is interested in the tenacious weeds on the roadside, and can't get out again. Since then, the self-reliant weeds fly on the branches and become phoenixes. The spirit of the rich second generation is fascinated by their own life history, and they feel the sufferings in the world, as if you can handle any man in the world as long as you endure hardships and stand hard work.
But in Woody Allen's view, it is not a class of love that always shows its feet.
Gatsby heard that he could plan a romantic trip around Manhattan after he went to Manhattan. After all, it was his own turf, so he wanted to do his own landlord friendship for his girlfriend. Whether it was the hotel where he stayed and the points that need to be clocked in Manhattan, he knew everything. I remember it, but the hostess was not interested in this, she just thought about how to become famous through this interview, and even raised the idea of "Pulitzer" without embarrassment. For a period of time, the two people talked with each other, and each was immersed in their own world. At that time, they felt a discordant movement between the two. The originally scheduled one-hour interview time was disrupted by the director's randomness. Ashley, who was bumped by the deer, was hooked by the director and completely forgot about her boyfriend. First, during the interview, I vigorously expressed my admiration for the director, and when I was showing off my film knowledge, he put Akira Kurosawa into the list of European directors; after inviting her to be the first audience to watch a new film, she immediately refused her boyfriend’s cultural sightseeing tour. ; The director was dissatisfied with the movie with great enthusiasm. After seeing half of her furious, she joined the screenwriter to find the director together. On the way, the screenwriter discovered that her wife had cheated on her best friend, so Ashley was obliged to join the team to catch the rape. , Even if it has nothing to do with her; after catching the rape, she thought of the forgotten director, so she went to find the director again, but unexpectedly met the male movie star; not only accompanied the male star to attend the party of the acting star assembly, She also simply followed the male celebrity home thinking about devoting herself to complete this day’s adventure. Just as she was fighting for it, after the well-justified girlfriend of the male celebrity came back, in a hurry, she fled the case while wearing her underwear and a jacket over her underwear. Found on the scene, it rained and went back to the hotel to find her boyfriend.
On the other hand, Gatsby could only wander around alone because he could not wait for his girlfriend to come to the appointment. Not only did he participate in the filming, but he also ran into the sister of his ex-girlfriend. It was not his girlfriend who came back, but the call girl who had a heart-to-heart conversation to get to know his mother better. When he was playing the piano in the hotel looking at his embarrassed girlfriend, he neither furious nor complained, but continued to ride in the carriage the next day to fulfill the plan he had made before. Listening to his girlfriend talking about the entanglement with three different men in one day, he did not show any jealousy. It wasn't until his girlfriend in the carriage took a lyric as Shakespeare's famous line that he broke up on the spot, and then he went to rendezvous with the sister of his ex-girlfriend and staged a love in the rain.
In fact, there is one place that resonates particularly well with the audience, which is your recognition in the hearts of others. Although the male protagonist is expensive as a high-class brother in New York, in the hearts of his country girlfriends, there is no way to talk to the directors and actors of the show business circle. Even when having dinner with the male celebrities, he bluntly denies the fact that his boyfriend exists. .
Until the end, when she reappeared in the hotel in embarrassment wearing a coat, she thought that she could go deep into the show business circle through a simple interview, but she didn't know that it was just a pastime when the people in the circle were boring. How can a female college student who can't even speak incoherently and tremblingly fight against those sophisticated masters?
The protagonist finally wakes up suddenly: Find someone who will give you 10 points instead of someone who you spend all your energy to please but don't know what is good or bad. Find someone who can understand you and share your feelings, rather than someone who doesn’t dance on the same channel. half.
What you like is the rain in New York and she is worried about what to do if it rains. The special check-in points you can easily find are completely forgotten by her; your memory of the city is a museum, and she can spend 200 dollars if she stays here. Buy a Rolex. Regardless of gender relations or daily interpersonal communication, there is no prejudice in this world. Because of the differences in the growth environment and the different perspectives on things, you have to fall into the system of being evaluated by others every day. But what about it? Many people try to be recognized because they care too much about the eyes of others, but when they don't belong to them, they will always be seen through the crowd because they are out of place.
Going back to what I wrote at the beginning of the article: There is a trace of sweetness at the end, a trace of sudden realization, and a trace of regret. A trace of sweetness is that Ashley, who was trying to cheat, was dumped without knowing why. Gatsby and the girl who made a tune with the Italian concubine intend to develop new feelings to make the audience who love to watch happy ending feel sweet;
There is a sudden realization that you discover that everyone has their own black holes and troubles. The seemingly famous director is deeply in the predicament of not being able to break through himself; the fame and fortune screenwriter needs to be cuckolded by his wife and friends ; And the so-called male celebrities still can’t escape the evil of stealing food; so what about celebrities, after all, they still have their own troubles and bad things, which is the same as ordinary people thinking about how to avoid being fired by their bosses. ；
And that trace of regret is that Woody Allen is telling everyone that there is an insurmountable gap for people who are not of the same class. Ashley is no longer ordinary, but whether she wants to try to integrate into the showbiz or show off her literary literacy in front of her boyfriend, she can only sigh in the end. Her growth experience limits her vision and recognition. Knowing, and it's not her fault in itself. What she thinks is a tall director, in the eyes of her boyfriend, he is just a little old and not a great person; in her opinion, the so-called exclusive news is just an unrealistic dream. The trend of increasingly solidified class is very frustrating, because even if the gestures can be concealed, they can't last. In real life, how can the ugly duckling be worthy of the prince's long love. After waking up from the dream, you still have to fall from a height and live your own life, counterattacking things like this, after all, is still a miracle. But the premise is that it is better to spend more time to improve your self-cultivation, what do you think?
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