Woody Allen hates women

Rating: 3/10 (8 January 2009)

As a man who married his own daughter, Woody Allen is not someone whose views on women one would want to feel comfortable agreeing with. Finding contempt with his opinions is made easy by this astonishingly juvenile movie in which he attempts to make us believe that he is celebrating the complexity and variety of women and their needs, wants, and passions, but ends up painting all four women in the story as exactly the same. All women, according to this movie, are eternally discontent, unsatisfied with any semblance of stability or balance, and crave only danger and chaos, whether secretly or openly, whether they live it or just dream of living it but don't dare. It is a disturbing all-the-same-once-you-scratch-the-surface view of half the human race that is matched only by his similar one dimensional portrayal of Europeans (i.e. non-Americans). They're all the same aren't they - but they're not like "us' so who can figure 'em out? Hey that's a great basis for a comedy. Isn't it? A sick movie by a sick man.