Well I just finished watching another Best Picture winner. :) It's the first Woody Allen movie i've seen. It was pretty good. I didn't know if I would like it that much, but I laughed at parts. He was so neurotic though, my goodness! I thought Diane Keaton was really endearing as Annie with her ditzyness. It was an interesting take on life and relationships and now different people can be together or in their case, still be friends at the end.
I could relate to Alvy with some of his neurosis. I can't go see a movie if it's already started and with Annie when she had to have someone come and kill a spider that was in her bathroom. I can't kill spiders and i'm very afraid of them too. Part of it was that she just wanted to see him again because she missed him.
I thought it was interesting how he couldn't try anything new and he couldn't be happy, he had this pessimistic view of life and I know that I can be pessimistic quite a bit, but I don't stay that way, I like to try things and be happy because what is life if you can't enjoy it and make a difference? Anyway, at the end when he says that relationships are just absurd and all these other things, that may be the case, but like he said "people continue to do it for the eggs" or something like that. They want that companionship and love. They don't want to be alone, that's why no matter how ridiculous and painful relationships can be, we still want to be in them. They can also be great too. :)
Now i'm just kind of going off on my own little ramble. While I tend not to really care all that much for 70s films (with the exception of Grease) I thought this was pretty good. I mean there is a reason why it won Best Picture. :) Overall rating: 3 out of 5.
this is much different than most movies that win Best Picture, which stand on their own as individual achievements. this was one in a line of woody comedies and although it's more serious than the others beforehand, it's a link on a chain. the fact this link got the big award separates it from the others, and that it's more autobiographical too, but it's still one of the few niche or cult films (a film by a cult director) that took the award. i think of it like if the ramones won a grammy over abba or something.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I see what you're saying. So in a way you think it shouldn't have won the oscar?
ReplyDeletePlus ABBA is way better than The Ramones, but I haven't really listened to the Ramones so I guess I shouldn't say which is better lol.
i'm not saying it shouldn't have won the oscar. i'm saying it's a different kind of oscar winning film.
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