Alternative Love Story

Rating: 9/10 (16 February 2009)

The first Woody Allen movie I've ever seen and i was not disappointment. The film is not a typical love story in which the protagonist does not end up with women (Annie). At the beginning of the film, Alvy (Woody) tells a joke about how he would not want to belong in a club that would accept him. This line could summarize the theme of the movie. The movie then becomes about the journey that Alvy takes and not about the outcome. At the beginning of the story Alvy tells us the outcome of the relationship. The writing of the film is very corky and it is presented in the same way. Woody Allen breaks the fourth wall by speaking to the audience directly. Alvy says what we are thinking during the scenes in which he breaks the fourth wall. The scenes are done in a slow pace which is a great change from the modern romantic films. I usually don't look romantic film, but this film not an average romantic film. The scene in which the couple is trying to cook the lobster and then starts chasing it around the kitchen is very believable ONLY because the Keaton and Allen film relationship. AT the beginning of the film, Alvy is standing in a movie line, while a pompous film teacher talks about the meaning of a certain film, and then Alvy is so annoyed that he pulls the director of that film, the guy tells the pompous teacher that he has no idea what he is talking about and he is surprised that he is a film teacher. The description does not make it justice, but that one scene is when you know that you are watching a Woody Allen movie and not a regular romantic film. I enjoyed watching this film because it takes a different approach in showing a romantic relationship.