Doesn't...



...Woody Allen's mother say, "Why don't you find yourself a nice Jewish girl" to him in this documentary?


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Yes, she does. And right in front of Soon-Yi which I thought was rather insulting.

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its not an unusual comment coming from a traditional jewish woman. Its preservation of their religous blood line. If the mom is a jew then the child is a jew.

As for her saying it in front of soon yi, yeah thats messed up. But their values are from a different time.

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Yeah, my great grandmother used to tell me to find a nice italian girl. She had old values and she never lost them.

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Allen asks his mother first at 1:40:35 "How do you feel about the fact that now both Christopher and I go out with Asian women?" He's already told his mother at 1:38:58 that the Hebrew school she took him to was "time-wasting junk." So his mother answers, "I personally don't think it's right. That's me. It's my opinion." At this point, Allen's father interrupts, "Chinese women?" Soon Li laughs and says, "I'm not Chinese." Then Allen's mother says, "I would've liked from the beginning for you to fall in love with a nice Jewish girl."

You've got to see the scene in context. It's a comic scene set up by Allen himself. He directs his mother into the topic by asking her the question. He's the precocious child again. After Allen disappears from the room, his mother makes one of the best critical statements I've ever heard about Allen's movies: when asked if her son puts himself in his movies, she says, "He adds or subtracts from his life�, but no, he doesn�t want to make a movie of his life�.I like it because he tells you a story. Even though it may not be true, he tells you a story.� (1:42:21) Wild Man Blues might be a documentary, but with a creative soul who understands the camera as Allen does, it might just be a jazz story played the way Sidney Bechet played clarinet solos.

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