Review of Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) by Coco M — 16 May 2009

Excellent movie about the definition of "morality", "ethics", "love" and "happiness". The movie deals in a perfect balanced way between drama and comedy (as usual is Woody Allen's films).

Besides deconstructing the layers that build the society, he takes two characters and studies them breaking the scenery in two: Logic and emotions. Martin Landau is the logic and the righteous, but he did something wrong.

Allen did something not so wrong, but is not seen as right in the civil area. Now the punishment goes towards the audience, because we see small and subtle hints of breaking the fourth wall, and it's a mock to the concept of film itself, since the movie doesn't show us a lesson, nor tells us a moralistic story, it fills its task, which is showing the darkness of reality, where money and image (for better or for worse) are the most important in this civilization.