Why the disjointed scenes?
At first I thought it was TV problems but then as it persisted I knew it was a Woody Allen film trick.
Why? What did it have to do with the story?
If you're referring to the jump cuts, lots of filmmakers have used this technique; it doesn't necessarily "have to do with the story."
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Oh, so there called "jump cuts"........OK thanks Evan!
I wonder why there used?
They're used to demonstrate Harry's fragmented, disjointed take on life. Notice they are used most prominently the night before he drives to the university, when he is taking a bunch of pills and forgets the conversation he has with Bob Balaban's character in which he agrees to go with him after all, and in the scene in which Cookie is smoking weed and Harry inhales a little bit passively then has a flashback.
"Reality is the new fiction they say, truth is truer these days, truth is man-made"
Since this movie is about writing and stories within stories inspired by Harry's true life events my guess about the cuts is this: This whole movie is just another book of his, his last, and we watch it while it is being written. The cuts is just rewriting. You know, going back and changing something. You 'll notice that the cuts don't always jump forward but reset scenes and dialogues and let them play again in a "better" or a more helpful to the story way.
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