1972 - Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask

Movie cover

The truth is that I've watched this Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask a long time ago (I don't remember, I think it was right in the beginning of the year) and I didn't feel like writing - even though it was a good movie.

Everything... is the kind of movie that Woody Allen is getting used to do back in the 1970s; he uses a lot of vignettes (which means simply that he uses lots of scenes that are not related but are fun, just like sketches). This movie is a huge Vignette with lots of small vignettes all along the way, but, the fact is that this time it works. And it works because the story must be told like this: you have seven segments with stories about sex issues.

I can't say why, exactly, but it was the first time I laughed while watching one of his movies, and I felt good. It's so idiotic and dumb that you must laugh, and the fact is that you laugh because it's just lame, just like a child telling you an illogical joke.

Tv show - one of the vignettes

But it is the human fixation towards sex that makes this movie so fun to be watched: it starts with the tittle of the movie. It makes you curious like "Oh, it's going to be nasty documentary", and then you have stories about those super hot topics like aphrodisiac elements (do they work?), sex with animals (how could it be?), transsexualism, fetishism, perversions, but at the same time, when you watch it you see that everything - even the fact that we seek for this kind of information (I say we as a whole) - you see that everything is a lame thing. I mean, whatever, go have fun, don't mind studying sex as a science.

I see that what Woody does is a meta-linguistic criticism towards this necessity we have to know, categorize, study and explain everything. If we could only live, that would be nice. And for you, that seek for nasty things to see just out of curiosity, that's it: voilá! You are going to watch something very funny.

1971 - Bananas

Well, I have to be sincere.

I'm sincerely disappointed with myself, because I was supposed to review and criticize Woody Allen's movies and post here but after having watched the last one I felt like I was kind of tired of watching his movies. It is not that they're bad, I'm not saying this, but in fact I'm not into comedy too much and it was difficult to put myself to watch this Bananas movie. In fact, I laughed a little too less than what I have expected and I had to make and effort to reach the end of it.

Young Sly.

In the meanwhile, after the last review, I've watched so many movies, well, 2013 was a good year for movies, at least for me. But for now I won't spend my time to talk about it, I'll keep straight with Bananas.

Mellish in disguise.

Bananas is about a guy played by Woody Allen that is called Fielding Mellish. He is the simple loser, idiotic character Allen is used to play up to now - in the movies I've seen. I have to say I have problems with this kind of character, since it's to imbecile for me to feel any kind of sympathy, I just don't care about what is going to happen with him - in fact I wish for the worse. This kind of think makes me want to stop watching the movie, but I'm strong when it's about movies... I just keep waiting to see what's going to happen. And...

Mellish is attracted (can't say he's in love) to a girl which is involved in activism and a country in Latin America called San Marcos (a kind of Cuba). So, when she dumps him - because he deserves it - he decides to go to San Marcos to prove himself to her, to prove he is not just a moron.

Well, the movie is basically a lot of comical sketches about someone being trained in a rebel's army. It's fun sometimes, but for me it lacks in purpose. I know it has a subtext on war and Cuba's problems towards USA and media involvement in people's and political affairs, but for me it didn't work. Best part for me was seeing young Sylvester Stallone in a cameo.