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I'm a long-time Woody fan but. . .

posted 8 years ago by PrimeMinisterX (8859)
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. . . there are more subjects to make movies about than people and their infidelities. He's gone back to this well over and over in his career, and a subject he's neurotic about. But I would like to see him put it to bed forever.

Cafe Society was well acted and looked great but by the third act I had checked out because the story disappointed me. At last with Irrational Man, even though I didn't love it, he was trying to do something fresh and original.

Considering Woody's age, we could lose him at any moment. I really hope he doesn't spend the final years of his career retreading the same old ground.

[–] Jes' Sayin' (6545) 7 years ago

There are infidelities, but that's not really the topic...

[–] Ace_Spade (9658) 4 years ago

Well...

Annie Hall was about relationships and love
Crisis in Six Scenes is about humdrum disruption
Magic in the Moonlight is about belief and truth
Radio Days is about growing up, family, and the radio
Blue Jasmine is about self-destruction (and morality a bit)
To Rome with Love has a plot about infidelity, but others that are about celebrity, or, uh...singing in the shower
Midnight in Paris has infidelity in it, but it's more about living in the present, not dwelling on the past.
Zelig is about being true to yourself and who you are
The Purple Rose of Cairo is about self-deception, fantasy, and reality
Sleeper is a fish out of water satirical comedy
Manhattan Murder Mystery is a, uh, murder mystery (set in Manhattan)

Plenty of his movies don't have infidelity, or aren't about it but are about other things. Allen writes about people in all kinds of ways. He goes to existentialism or moral philosophy as much as infidelity. People say he just makes the same movie over and over, but the magic realism of Alice or Midnight in Paris is a far cry from the erotic thriller stuff in Match Point, the zany comedy of Bananas, or the light dance that is To Rome with Love.