Review of Manhattan (1979) by Jj M — 27 Mar 2011
Woody Allen has the same physical attributes as a sheep-farmer I know up the road from me. He walks around without too much of a care! The thing about Allen is that he always inhabits a world that centres on the self.
An ego-maniac (what is that line he says about God being someone he aspires to?) But once you clear that moral snag about his character, his films offer themselves as something wonderfully meaningful.
Manhattan is all about the trials and tribulations of life in a progressive urban environment. The meaning of love, the meaning of social interaction, the silliness of marriage. The world here in 1970's Manhattan is so wildly full of itself and emanates with a pretenious grace that you just become absorbed by the eccentrocity of it all after a while.
Allen's character Ike probably gets his come-uppance in the end and it sort of put's Allen's outlook on things, including himself, into a neat perspective...All things are fathomable but out of reach at the same time.
This review of Manhattan (1979) was written by Jj M on 27 Mar 2011.
Manhattan has generally received very positive reviews.
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