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January 06, 2014
January 10, 2014
A thumbnail review of a
recent Woody Allen movie:
(a) the acting is superb,
hence painful to watch (Drunks trying to discuss
important subjects.)
(b) the characterization
is interesting Dangerbaby was cheering for the
younger son when he walked out:
she didn't get at first that he
was being very weak: his *reasons*
for dropping out were lame (I just
can't face the guys at school!).
(c) there are problems of place:
o the SF depicted feels like
~1990 at the latest: an The locations aren't bad
unintentional period piece. though-- the Mission District
apartment looks plausible (for
the mid-80s...), the low class
restaurant by the water reminds
of a place that I think still
survives over by Mission Rock,
and so on.
DIEHARD
o The characters don't seem
characteristic of the place.
My sense is that Woody Allen has
lived in a bubble for too long:
he needed some "low class"
secondary characters, but
doesn't associate with such A blue collar guy in
people, and so contrived people San Francisco is likely
you might have met in New York as not to be a Burning
50 years ago. Man freak with a KPFA
bumpersticker on his
pickup...
This is a long-standing
problem, really: This would not fit Allen's
plot, however, where
MANHATTAN_WOODY there's supposed to be a
price to be paid for not
being white collar.
It might be taken as
The Message of the
film: the high and low
are both scum, and
different economic
strata just condemns
you to living with a
different sort of scum.
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