Subtext to this movie


It seems to be a veiled attack on Mia Farrow. Note how the 'hooker' (Mira Sorvino) claims to have had two serious relationships in her past, before she met Woody. Curiously enough, Mia had two marriages under her belt, before she fell in love with the Wood-man. Also, Mira is not just a sex worker, but a film star (albiet in porn).

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Please, let's not confuse a porn star with a competent film actor/actress.

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As much as I generally dislike this film (even as a one-time BIG Woody Allen film, who still has a lot of regard for his 70s/80s/90s output, for the most part), I think you're stretching the 'subtext' here. No-one else would have made such an inference, and I'm pretty sure it wasn't intended.

Mia Farrow is a lot of things, but she isn't uneducated, she isn't a dummy and she isn't coarse. She's a woman of privilege, and on the surface presents quite a refined and delicate persona.

I do find this film classist (implying that the working-class are innately stupid) and demeaning to sex-workers, which is why it's one of my least favourite of Allen's films, despite an intriguing 'nature versus nurture' premise and a few promising characters, but there's NOTHING here to suggest an attack on Mia Farrow. If anything, the classy but cold/uptight character played by Helena Bonham-Carter is a closer fit for Mia.

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