luck and the empty sky above

Rating: Null/10 (19 February 2007)

It is about Crime and Punishment, in the end!Dostoievski allowed Raskolnikov to be saved and redeemed, even though his crime had been sordid.There was a Sonia and the belief that paying one's due was all it took to put the world back in harmony.No such luck for 21st Century London dwellers.It is just about luck now, there is no God watching over us, everything goes. Even Camus's :"how can one be a saint without God" seems passé.All that beauty, all the lifestyle but nothing to save us or to give meaning to our lives. Malraux said that 21St Century will be religious or won't be at all.In the middle of all the religious wars that we have been witnessing, Woody Allen 's message is that in fact,people don't really believe in anything anymore(either God or romantic Love) and all that is left is luck and "a comfortable life".He is saying that all those great novelists and philosphers got it wrong.We are what we are and nothing transcends us. Maybe his British English is not impeccable,maybe some things are deja vues; but Woody Allen is asking the right questions.And he has always had even if some of his films seemed too self-centered.But that's all we have left, the Self, haven't we?