A talkative director, telling his own story.

Jeanette 2022-04-21 09:01:27

I'm really not suitable for writing film reviews. Every time I write, I add too much personal emotion, and then it becomes my own story. But if a movie leaves you with no sympathy and no emotion, then it may be a good movie, but it must not be your movie.

It was recommended to me by someone in an unusual relationship, we sat together, I said let’s watch a movie, he said okay, then watch Annie Hall, I said why, he said because it was like our relationship.

I should have watched it with great interest, but unfortunately I watched it with this person. After the first paragraph of dialogue was finished, the person actually pressed pause and asked: Do you understand? I cursed inwardly. Then he finished explaining the joke and went on again. After 5 minutes of playing, he actually paused again and asked me, did you understand? So for the first half hour, I experienced multiple playbacks, pauses, and the expression of that person who kept watching me watching the movie. I kept scolding in my heart: you treat me as a fool, stop your sister. Fortunately, after half an hour, for some irresistible reasons, I had to leave, and then ended this unpleasant viewing experience. When I left, I politely said: I will go home and watch it. In fact, I was thinking: your sister, I don't watch it.
Today, because I couldn't access the Internet, I just clicked on this movie, watched it for a few minutes, and suddenly felt very good. After watching it, I finished it. So recommending movies is of no use, because no one wants to eat what someone else spit out after chewing, and of course I want to spit out what someone chewed.

I'm sorry I said a lot more off topic, but isn't that what the director of the end credits said: "It's like my view of a relationship, it's the most irrational, crazy, weird, but we go through it all the time because we Most need eggs."
The male protagonist is a very egoistic person, chatting and thinking, from the beginning to the end, from his own perspective, telling his childhood experiences, his opinions and hobbies, his attitude towards previous feelings and his views on haters. . He's very egoistic and very annoying. Then Annie said, "You think I'm not smart enough, so you don't take it seriously, otherwise why would you force me to take college courses, as if I'm stupid." Well, don't explain it, all young men in literature and art are like this, too much to themselves Agree, and then hope that the other party will become like this, hope that the other party has the same hobbies as you, hope that the other party can keep up with your own thoughts, or put it in a better way, and hope that the other party can understand you more. So would you recommend a course you think is a good course, a good movie, or a wonderful novel to the aunt who sweeps the floor or a flat roommate who meets once a week? Don't say that I just think this course is good, this movie is good or this novel is worth watching, in fact, you just want the other party to know more about you, agree with you, accept you, you even want to change the other party, although you explain it again and again , but that's it. So even when the male protagonist broke up, he naturally said, "If I didn't buy that book, you didn't read it", because you felt in your heart: If it weren't for me, you might not know a lot of things at all.

I think this movie is actually telling a very simple truth: you only know how to cherish when you lose it. When seeing each other after the breakup, the actor was surprised to find that Annie was reading a magazine that he had not paid attention to, and Annie was listening to some music he did not know. When he asked to get back together, Annie actually had her own circle and pursuit, and was living happily. When he missed Annie more and more, he realized that Annie had changed him unknowingly. Although he once thought that Annie was vulgar and not smart enough, although they had different hobbies and quarreled constantly, when she met other girls, he Only then did he realize that others were missing Annie's share, so when he said goodbye, he thought Annie was beautiful and special.

This is probably what the movie says at the beginning: life is full of loneliness, sadness, suffering, pain, and it all ends too quickly.

I have written a lot, do you want to draw a conclusion? Of course, if we can penetrate these loneliness, sorrow and pain, and then cherish the moment, stop arguing, stop entanglement, hug and kiss, this must be a good conclusion. It's a pity that although we know that when it will eventually pass away, we have nothing to do but regret and miss, but we are still immersed in this lonely sadness and pain, and try to escape or let it end as soon as possible. But this is man, this is life, and this is love.

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  • Casey 2022-03-21 09:01:23

    Twitter is so annoying. "I am obsessed with death... Life consists of two parts: fear and sadness." Spit! ! ! ! ! !

  • Toney 2022-03-21 09:01:23

    Life is generally divided into terrible and sad. Fortunately, you belong to the sad kind.

Annie Hall quotes

  • Man in Theatre Line: [talking to his date, standing in line behind Alvy and Annie] We saw the Fellini film last Tuesday. It is *not* one of his best. It lacks a cohesive structure. You know, you get the feeling that he's not absolutely sure what it is he wants to say. Of course, I've always felt he was essentially a - a technical film maker. Granted, "La Strada" was a great film. Great in its use of negative energy more than anything else. But that simple cohesive core...

    Alvy Singer: [to Annie] I can't stand this guy. I'm gonna have a stroke.

    Annie Hall: Well, stop listening to him.

    Man in Theatre Line: [keeps talking to his date] You know, it must need to have had its leading from one thought to another.

    Alvy Singer: [to Annie] He's screaming his opinions in my ear.

    Man in Theatre Line: [keeps talking to his date] You know what I'm talking about? Like all that "Juliet of the Spirits" or "Satyricon", I found it incredibly - *indulgent*. You know, he really is. He's one of the most *indulgent* film makers. He really is.

    Alvy Singer: [to Annie] Key word here is "indulgent."

  • Alvy Singer: You know what a hostile gesture that is to me?

    Annie Hall: I know, because of our sexual problem, right?

    Alvy Singer: Everybody on line at the New Yorker has to know our rate of intercourse?