"The Other." Woody Allen Woody Allen, the king, though intellectual, but still comedy, always pulled to prove that he could and serious genre. On account of his several dramas, which are always accused of imitation. However, imagine that you know Woody not as a comediographer, but as the author of these psychologically unfunny stories – I think they would get more recognition. For some reason, we always want to decide on the assessment of a person or an artist once and for all - this evil, this noble, this funny person. But personalities tend to have a volume, to be different. So Woody, on the one hand, is a comedian and a balacur, and on the other... The other side, underrated and underrecognized, is melancholy, sadness, bitterness.
Woody feels the imperfection of the world and the imperfection of man. Yes, he likes to laugh at a person, at his absurdity, but sometimes he seems unable to contain the pain for a person. In "September," he allowed himself pity for a man. But pity is not mocking, not arrogant, but tender and wise. The heroes of September are good people, but weak. Loving, but unhappy, and therefore selfish. Dreaming of happiness, but not having the will to achieve their own. These people cause both sympathy and irritation. Mia Ferrow brilliantly creates just that versatility. She's pretty, but she's kind of weird. It seems smart, interesting, but so complex and self-centered.
The image of the mother is a bit simple. A kind of movie star is shabby, frivolous, slightly insensitive. As if she was to blame for her daughter’s troubles. But I don't think Allen wanted that conclusion. I think he still tends to think that everything is inside a person. It's nobody's fault. It's just a man like that - unlucky, lonely, pathetic.
"September" is probably a bit literary. Oversaturated dialogues, some kind of upliftment, as if they were not quite living people made of meat, but eternally reasoning and languishing images of people. But there's some beauty to this refinement. Yes, it's a fictional world, but so tempting, so sophisticated. Sometimes you want to rise above everyday life, to be such a dreamer. September offers that opportunity. And, most interestingly, the film is not depressing at all, after it you feel that you have enough to freak out with the characters and now you want to breathe in and do business.
8 out of 10