Review of Whatever Works (2009) by Steve D — 28 Jun 2010
The film is a meditation on how to approach love and life and the complex psychology of relationships at play in modern society. This film concludes we should suspend our judgemental approach to relationships, sexuality and the pursuit of happiness, which is based on social conditioning underpinned by irrelevant and absurd notions often based on the idiocies of religious beliefs, and open our minds to accepting 'whatever works' instead.
There are many laugh out loud moments in the film. However, you need to have a sense of the subtleties of wordplay and irony to really appreciate the depth of the humour. In the end this is a deeply human film - a plea for tolerance and romanticism and the poetry of the soul and ignoring the materialistic conditioning foisted upon us by a world full of inhumanity.
In other words, the same kind of themes as are in many of Woody Allen's films, but expressed via scintillating writing and wit that really works and has often not come off so well in many of his other films.
This is a great film. This is Woody Allen back to his best.
This review of Whatever Works (2009) was written by Steve D on 28 Jun 2010.
Whatever Works has generally received positive reviews.
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