Bullets Over Broadway: Don't speak, do watch

This film was really interesting to me... I think because it was about giving up who you think you are. There's all this pomp and circumstance surrounding John Cusack's character, and that character's glorious writing career... and yet we never see it. It's never proved. I wonder if Woody Allen is trying to say something, here, about existentialism (the way he often is): we accept what we are told, to the point that a thing is true because we believe it. In any case, John Cusack's character spends all of his time thinking of himself as a writer, and more to the point, an intellectualist. And it causes all the problems for him because he secretly isn't. He wants desperately to think of the world in a more simplistic, honest, down to earth way, while his writer friends are busy insisting that the world is as we define it: we set our own moral codes, we assign value to everything. Too wishy-washy for what we need: love.

It affects me because it's a sort of zen moment, where you let go of something you've been holding onto all your life. It feels like closing your eyes, and letting your fears and inxieties wash over you, and slip away. It's deeply sad, and yet exciting. It is the most literal example of change in a person's life. That Cusack finally does this shows us that he is a man, in the sense of a grown-up.

Meanwhile, Diane Weist is awesome! So hilarious! Comedic genius. Chaz Parlimentari too. Woody Allen has this rhythm and sense of humor where if you've let yourself fall for his charms, you laugh your ass off. That is to say, that once you find him funny, he is hilarious, again and again. Never a dull moment. However, I can see his style not gelling with some, wherein all the jokes just fall flat. More eye-rolling than side-splitting.