Woody Allen is a veteran director who's been making movies for like ever.
As controversial as he might seem in his personal life, I cannot help but to be amazed at how he does his movies.
I used to overanalyze them in every aspect ... how does he create the scripts??? does he even write the scripts ???? why does improvising seem to be a very common method used by his stars???? why do the characters do what they do ???? is there any reason to it or none at all????
So many questions.....
Recently I've watched Vicky Cristina Barcelona and Annie Hall.
Let me start with the latter.
Annie Hall, for those who haven't watched it, is about the relationship of Alvy, a kind of anxious comedian, and Annie, the ditzy part of said relationship.
Both characters are so different that their realtionship ends up being somewhat tumultuous, and after many on/off's they break up for good. The movie ends back in New York with both characters and their different partners and questioning what really is a realationship.... Now without wanting to sound like to much of a 'Juliet' this movie pretty much says it all about relationships. They cannot be overanalyzed and in order for you to understand and move on to better things heartbreaks and disappoitments have to take place.
In Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Allen takes relationships to a whole other level. Vicky and Cristina are both American and together they travel to Barcelona for the summer to meet up with some friends that live there. They are completely different from each other. The first is the smart one who is engaged (and eventually ends up married) and is studying for her masters and the latter is the one who doesn't know what she wants from life and/or love.
They both fall for a painter, Juan Antonio, who likes them both but who also has a crazy relationship with his ex wife-the emotionally and mentally unstable Maria Elena.
After some unexpected twists both women return to America in the end with Vicky leading her 'perfect' married life, Cristina only knowing what she doesn't want in hers and Juan Antonio and Maria Elena separate yet again. If you try to overanalyze and explain why do these characters act the way they do, you'll quit before you know it. That's why that for the latest Woody Allen movie 'Midnight in Paris', another one of Allen's very own relationship comedies, I'm not going to make any judgement or preconceived notion. It is what is because it feels like being it. And that's that.
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