Annie Hall

Garret 2022-04-19 09:01:28

The movie is not long, but the dialogue is so suffocating, and it may be that I don't know enough about American culture, so I didn't get a lot of memes and humor. But it can be seen that "500 Days with Summer" and "Midnight in Barcelona" were greatly influenced by this film. The contradiction and hypocrisy of the male protagonist Ivy are too obvious. He blindly wants the other party to change, but he does not want to change. At first, he disliked Annie's lack of culture, and later made Annie literate and disliked her success. I feel This is simply a portrayal of many people in reality... In the end, Ivey even saw Ah Q's spiritual victory method in the play written by Ivey... The two of them went to the psychiatrist at the same time and the filming was great, you made me become If I get a better person, am I going to go against my feelings to make you happy? Both are willing to understand each other, and both are willing to make changes and concessions, so that the relationship can be maintained. It is always impossible for one party to change himself to please the other. Woody Allen always likes to use his own movies to illustrate his views on love, and this movie is (supposedly) his most classic one, of course, is no exception. Woody Allen finds it irrational and absurd that one thinks of oneself as a chicken (love), but we still need the chicken because of what it gives us, the egg (happiness, passion) , companionship, love, sex), is what we all need.

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  • Jadon 2022-01-26 08:03:06

    Love, lay the egg first or the chicken first.

  • Carmine 2022-04-23 07:01:26

    40th anniversary. "The relationship between lovers - is totally irrational, crazy and absurd. But I think we have to go through it all the time...because most of us need 'eggs'". Annie said that Alvy was closed, like an island and like New York City; what a metaphor. Aunt Keaton had a capable beauty in her youth. The practice of breaking the Nth wall turns the long lines and broken thoughts into a dialogue between time and space, I like it.

Annie Hall quotes

  • Alvy Singer: In 1942 I had already discovered women.

    [Young Alvy kisses girl in school]

    Alvy's Classmate: Yecch. He kissed me, he kissed me. Yecch.

    Miss Reed: That's the second time this month. Step up here.

    Alvy at 9: What'd I do?

    Miss Reed: Step up here.

    Alvy at 9: What did I do?

    Miss Reed: You should be ashamed of yourself.

    Alvy Singer: Why? I was just expressing a healthy sexual curiosity.

    Miss Reed: Six year old boys don't have girls on their minds.

    Alvy Singer: I did.

    Alvy's Classmate: For God's sake, Alvy, even Freud speaks of a latency period.

    Alvy Singer: Well, I never had a latency period. I can't help it.

  • Alvy Singer: I'm so tired of spending evenings making fake insights with people who work for "Dysentery."

    Robin: "Commentary."

    Alvy Singer: Oh really? I had heard that "Commentary" and "Dissent" had merged and formed "Dysentery."