This is just a blog I'm trying to write, as all the things I've written these past years, it's just an attempt. What happens is that a friend of mine loves Woody Allen's movies and my sister has been watching to some of them, I've just watched - because she asked so - to Vicky Cristina Barcelona. It made me think, it was a nice and beautiful movie. Since last year I've been watching more movies than I normally do, but most of them are horror flicks. I'm in love with incredibly good movie directors such as Cronenberg, Argento and Lynch; right now, I'm trying to watch all of their movies. I don't want to watch Lynch's Dune since sci-fi is not my kind of movie, so, if we don't count this one, I've watched all the movies that Lynch has directed, from those old exercises to things I had to search on the internet for weeks. Just love him.
I was watching Argento's things too, I've left some (4), and one or two I don't want to watch. I got pretty lazy of watching movies that last more than the traditional 1 hour and 30 minutes. Some Argento's movies last more than two hours. After having watched La sindrome di Stendhal (1996), which is of course a good movie, I've got fed up. I have to go on watching his movies but I need to take some rest before doing it.
I'm watching Cronenberg also, wonderful movie director. I've just watched Crash (1996) and it's wonderful.
But while I watch Cronenberg and Argento, I'm watching the movies from my list, that everlasting list of movies that I've created last year. It's always getting bigger but I can't complain: watching movies is a nice way to relax from daily life, and horror movies are so far from reality that they're just perfect to this function. But, as I was saying, there's Woody Allen. After having lots of people telling me I should watch him, I've decided to download a huge torrent with all of his movies and said myself that I would start from the beginning when everything got here. And it finally happened some days ago and I think now it's time to start watching them. Well, the first one is this What's New Pussycat from 1965.In fact, it's not directed by Woody Allen, he made the screenplay, which is wonderful. The movie is sweetly funny. It's a story of a playboy who refuses to settle down with the girl he loves. There's a psychoanalyst which makes the movie worth. I'm reading right now at IMDB that Woody Allen got so frustrated with the director's version of his screenplay that he decided to direct himself his next movies. That's nice.
The movie depicts, in my view, how people behave towards relationship in a time when the roles of males and females are being put into discussion. It exposes very independent and liberal women in 1965, and how men feel insecure when they have to deal with these new women. The first contraceptive pills were approved in the USA in 1960, so it's totally clear how women as shown in the movie are so strong and sexually active. At the same time, they seem quite not ready for men's harassment.
When the character Carole, which is the girlfriend of the main character, acts the same way as him (spending the night with someone else) he cannot admit it. At the same time, he wants to have the most of girls that he can for the most of the time. This movie depicts men and women that are not prepared to deal with each other after sexual liberation. They don't know how to maintain a relationship since they can have more partners than before; they don't know how to deal with relationship: if they should have sex before it, if they should live together or if they may marry as the religious tradition demands.Woody Allen appears in the movie as well, he is Victor. He loves Carole but Carole loves Michael. Victor is more a nerd, he is not like Michael, a playboy, that dances well, has money, a good car and everything.
The last 20 minutes of movie are totally crazy!
Well, if science can give people a better life, it can, at the same time, make their problems grow bigger. I liked the movie pretty much, I hope people watch it. See you later.