Just like "Double Melinda" and "Hannah Sisters", the protagonists in "Midnight in Barcelona" are still two girls with opposite personalities, the rational Vicky and the impulsive Christina, which reflect Woody's love for each other from different aspects. Women's confusion, but in order to match the warm sunshine of Barcelona, Woody abandoned his usual humorous irony and inept neurotic male protagonist, and spared no effort to create a romantic atmosphere: ochre-colored walls and golden-red sunshine and Catalonia Asia's artistic atmosphere complements each other, Spanish folk songs accompanied by guitars are embellished with a strong bohemian style, romantic encounters in travel, multi-angle relationships, violent and destructive love like a storm, love beyond gender triggered by art... The sexy, warm and gentle painter actor can fully satisfy all people's fantasies about Barcelona, and when Christina and Elena kiss in the darkroom, the picture is soaked in a charming red, bringing the film to a loud and interesting climax .
But without that oily golden-red luster, the film is essentially a story about how love is impossible. The icy voice-over narration interrupts the narrative from time to time, pulling the audience back to reality from the tide of romance. The actor talks about his relationship with his genius ex-wife: "Elena and I look like a perfect couple, but we can't be together because we're missing something that's fundamental—salt, for example." Passion, but a life with only passion will only lead to madness. Although the 72-year-old Woody Allen is not stingy with erotic scenes, "Midnight in Barcelona" is far more down-to-earth than his earlier films, and love is just an imagination in it adventure.
what else can we do? Summer love must end in severing the relationship, otherwise, the charming idyll will be turned into the temptation and trouble of fate.
Woody Allen's sexiest and most down-to-earth film, where the warm Barcelona sun replaces his usual sarcasm, every detail is impeccably rounded and beautiful, but it's still a love story that borders on despair - albeit Looks like a comedy.
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