bygone era

Raina 2022-02-27 08:01:20

The whole film is narrated by first-person narration, which is a bit like a black and white film, but the picture performance is far from that of a black and white film. The characters are not full of personality, the story is fragmented and incoherent, there is no climax, and there is no turning point. There are really many problems, which are far worse than the later films of Aaron Living.

If it is said that this is a musical, then horizontal comparison, compared with other musicals, the difference is not too big. A good musical film always has one or two songs that spread out and become a tune that people like to hear and listen to, such as "Once". But this movie doesn't, and most of the music that appears in the movie isn't that great. In fact, none of Aaron's films has a good soundtrack, which is not his strong point. After all, he's good at telling jokes and expressing his witty opinions.

Overall, this is an ordinary movie made in a bygone era, only directed by Aaron Worth, who has since become more famous.

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Extended Reading
  • Ernie 2022-03-19 09:01:09

    Can't understand why WA left Diane Keaton and can't understand why he was with Mia Farrow later. For the former, I can only express that the novelty may have passed. Feeling about the latter is like when I watch ex-boyfriends' new girlfriends, their standards fluctuate strangely.

  • Maybelle 2022-03-21 09:03:16

    Moved Fellini's "The Blunderers" and "Those Years" to New York. It turns out that the coffee commune is the broadcast era + the last emperor, and the nightclub and family scenes in New York are almost the same. Children's perspective shows New York in the late 1930s and early 1940s before the war ended. In this way, now is just the right time to make a movie of the late 1970s.

Radio Days quotes

  • Rocco: It's nothin' personal. It's just bad luck you were a witness.

    Sally: My whole life, I had bad luck.

    Rocco: Me too.

    [pause]

    Sally: Where are you from?

    Rocco: Brooklyn.

    Sally: Yeah? Me too.

  • Rocco: This is a coincidence. I meet nobody from the old neighbourhood in years. I finally do, and I gotta kill her.