The first key word is the whims of intellectuals. These intellectuals are always at odds with the distance between their rich and sentimental hearts and the dull and rough real world, they are talking about Bergman, it is James Joyce, and people around them are talking about The New Yorker's big shots and fame and money, they want self-deprecating self-deconstruction, and the world responds to them with "I don't understand, are you kidding?" This is the communication failure that runs through the film, which is both The failure of Woody Allen to communicate with his girlfriends is also the failure of intellectuals to communicate with the world.
The second key word is pessimism and frustration, which can be seen from Allen's repeated monologue in the film, that is, "I would never join a club that would accept someone like me as a member" , which is both his attitude towards love and his attitude towards the whole disappointing world, remember when the young male protagonist called annoying relatives mentally handicapped? This pessimism permeates not only the actor's life in the film, it also runs through a large number of Allen's works, and even in this day and age when he can't continue to star in the film, the actors in his films have carried the typical Woody Allen-esque pessimism.
The third key word is the biggest ambition of the film, that is, to deconstruct the process of love dying in the contemporary relationship between men and women. The death of love does not arise from some kind of fierce struggle, but is more like a slow withering. During the process of getting along, because the personalities of the two could not continue to coexist harmoniously, more conflicts continued to arise. In the end, the conflicts exhausted the energy and inner tenderness of both parties, and this love died. I still remember when they faced the psychiatrist different description? The male protagonist says that we have sex very rarely, only three times a week, while the female protagonist says that we have sex very frequently, three times a week, which is one of the most obvious symbols of their cognitive failure to communicate with each other.
In addition, there are many tributes to Bergman in this film. When the hero and heroine lined up at the entrance of the theater, the poster of Bergman's "Face to Face" hung on the wall of the theater, and the hero maintained the image of an adult. The passage back to the past is more like Bergman's "Wild Strawberry", and the analysis of the relationship between men and women in this film is also quite like Bergman's "Marriage Life".
In conclusion, under Woody Allen's trendy and bold narrative techniques (including split screen, animation, breaking the fourth wall, reconstructing memory, etc.), these themes about love and life have produced very amazing The chemistry of the film, they were reconciled by the director genius, resulting in this masterpiece, in the film Anne Hall is the figurative symbol of love, right or wrong is not important, because love is just mutual communication and identification, But regardless of struggle or sweetness, love is only a stage in life, not the final outcome. This is Woody Allen's true attitude towards love hidden under the humorous, absurd, and self-deprecating shell of this film. It is indeed pure pessimism. Activists.
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