7.1 -- seriously?
How could this have a 7.1 rating? I gave it a 9! Or perhaps just a fan of the small, endearing movies that don't fit the cookie cutter mold?
shareI think the ending is not very good ... it turns out to be a kind of slice of life movie, like a lot of Woody's movies. He makes very moralistic movies and then these slice of life movies, like a Night In Paris. They are all fun but I think most people like the movies with a real story.
shareI actually liked that ending (SPOILER or not)...just as in the movie, Shopgirl. Sometimes she may be thinking of him, sometimes he may be thinking of her. That *is* a real story because that part does happen. I should know.
shareI guess it is not just the ending, the movie as a whole does not have much of a point, as also is true of Shopgirl. I just have a thing against Steve Martin as I probably have a thing for Woody Allen, but both of these movies don't have much of a point, or a plot. I liked Cafe Society better, because it had more going on and was more interesting.
shareOf course the movie has a point.
It's a movie about frustration. It is pessimistic. After all, the entire movie is about lovers being frustrated and ending up that way. But there is some happiness in the film; they both reach happiness at some point, and their love is requited, so if they veer betwen happiness and frustration, well, then that's not so bad, is it? Frustration, while being frustrating, is not sadness. So even a pessimist's take on the whole is not so awful.
Frustration and happiness are not opposites.
Life is about frustration, art is a critique of life, not a photograph.