Review of Manhattan (1979) by Carmela S — 03 Nov 2011

We all know how Woody Allen's love for New York is and that no other director has made a tribute to a place more profoundly than he did. In Manhattan, Woody showed us that this was his town. The opening sequence in Manhattan was so perfect that it had exemplified every bit of the city's characteristics.

It explained to us why this was the capital of the world, and with George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue as our company to every image we see, we know how this meant to him and that no other film can ever portray Manhattan as perfect as this had made us.

With Tracy(Mariel Hemingway) as the young girl who was blinded by this neurotic-pessimistic-intellectual Ike(Woody Allen) we all know that this was forbidden at that time and yet why is it that as odd and unconventional as they are, they belonged together? This is a movie about real-life relationships, but Can you really meet someone like Yale or the pseudo-intellectual Mary Wilke? With this film Woody continued to prove of himself as the Master of Modern Romantic Comedies and we know why relationships created by Woody are dysfunctional in every term.

I love this film in my heart. If the world would end and we have the chance to carry a piece of legacy of our human race, this is is one of them films that need to be saved. This will remind the future aliens or whoever they are that somewhere in America, there's this place called Manhattan.