it's amazing, it's intelligent

Rating: 10/10 (9 May 2006)

Woody Allen moved to Europe from Manhattan and he did not miss. Here, in Europe, he did a great job. Allen came back to those kinds of movies, that differs from his others (I mean his look-alike sexual comedies). He took at least two masterpieces (Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment" and Dryzer's "American Tragedy") and mixed them to a brand-new cocktail, that turned out to be an explosive kind of thing. Allen red Dostoevsky's novel visa-versa - from its ending to its beginning, from character's torches of what he has done to the moment when he had actually done it. And it turned out that the story perfectly fits to Dryzer's Tragedy. Well, who else - except a New York intellectual - could possibly do that? Allen creates his own story of what those two great masters has wrote. He shows nowadays reality in his movie and modern character. But the most incredible fact is that Allen does not punish his hero as well as he does not find him guilty. Allen declaims - this what we have - this kind of people, in this kind of world!