Review of the movie, "Annie Hall"

Rating: Null/10 (31 March 2011)

Annie Hall is an excellent film about the trials & challenges of people in relationships. Woody Allen's character seems to go about his life questioning every one around him. He can't just passively let anything natural happen without picking apart at the situation and figuring out why it's happening. There's a scene where Woody Allen is about to go to bed with Diane Keaton's character, Annie. In that scene, Annie wants to smoke a little grass before she can enjoy the rest of the night's festivities, but Woody Allen's character goes on a long rampage trying to figure out why she has to be high in order to go to bed with him. All he seems to do through this entire movie is psychologically figure out every other human being around him. It's just like in the movie theater scene when he's standing in line waiting to go to a movie, but a man standing behind him is rambling about his opinion on almost every movie. It all drives Woody Allen insane until eventually, he breaks that 4th wall of the movie and begins to start talking with the audience about why that man has those kind of opinions. The ME decade was a time of self-awareness, and this movie really dives deep into the main character's realization of why him & his girlfriend (Annie) have broken up. The movie is in scattered order showing us a glimpse of how their whole relationship came to be, and how it all fell apart. This movie also reminded me of the French New Wave. Everything about this movie seemed real to me. I could totally relate to it and understand it. There's a scene where Woody Allen meets up with Diane Keaton towards the end of the film and asks her to marry him because he feels absolutely miserable with out her. She feels for him, but doesn't agree with him on the whole marriage deal. She just knows it wouldn't be right for the two of them. It's not the happiest ending in the world, but definitely an ending you can understand and relate with your own life. Not everything works out the way you want it to.