Review of Zelig (1983) by Hugo S — 11 Mar 2008

ZELIG (1983).

Directed by Woody Allen.

Starring Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Patrick HorganLeonard Zelig was a man who wanted to be accepted, his mind was so strong it would turn his body into whoever he was around. It needed to be a man though, and if it was a woman he would simply become what she was, all of that, to please. But he wasnt even aware of it. Around Chinese people his body would morph into an Asian look-alike. He would turns black around an African-American and would get fat around, well, fat people. This is a documentary about him, and how a doctor tries to cure him in the 1920's.Okay, wait, of course this isnt for real, its a mockumentary and even if it does look real it all becomes obvious when we see the guy for the first time. Its Woody Allen. He plays his usual neurotic character and even bring him further, kinda like he was parodying himself cause he had been playing that same character for years.Zelig mixes cleverly achrive footage with fictional one, adding Allen into those old fiolms, kinda like they did with Tom Hanks in Forrest Gump except it was done eleven years prior to the Robert Zemeckis film.Woody Allen wont stop surprising me with his technical abilities, cause when I think of Allen, I think of witty humor and his fun dialogues, not him as a good director necessarly, I mean in a complicated technical way.Clever, funny, unexpected, subtle, simple, well-edited, Zelig is a very fun film to watch.