Foreign Film Critics: "Love in Rome"

For a director with a strong personal style and successful credentials, his work often makes you wonder whether his films are for the audience to see or are they cool. In my opinion, Woody Allen is such a director, with a strong personal style and personal values, coupled with nagging lines, and he still plays a role in the film from time to time, I think he himself must be very comfortable. Because of this, whether each of Woody Allen's films is outstanding is often not in the technical aspects of the film, but in whether his interest this time is exactly right with the audience watching this film. The latest "Love in Rome" and his films in recent years, good and bad, but just on my appetite, has quite a European tourism ambassador role, in Rome, continue to use some neurotic surrealism to give us a group play of life sketches, although not as bizarre as the previous "Midnight in Paris" crossing, but still full of imagination.

For the story of "Love in Rome", my personal summary is "derailment and return", at the beginning of the film, Woody Allen presents us with several groups of people's lives, ordinary and orderly to advance their lives, while at the same time with some boring. In fact, the general film's story rhythm is like this, showing you a "normal" life scene, and then using an accident to make it unbalanced and chaotic, and then the direction of the plot is often to return it to the established order, of course, there is often a personal cost in the process. Unlike action movies, which usually break order with violence, and romance movies that break order with encounters, Woody Allen likes to engage in nervous surreal events to break order, and this film is so magical. A female tourist who comes to Rome meets a local handsome guy and falls in love, which looks quite cheesy, but this is just Woody Allen's appetizer, and then one by one bizarre. Her parents came to see the family, and as a result, the father of the retired and bored music industry found that the man of the family had a good voice, so he strangely made a classical bathing and singing art; a small couple in the countryside who brought his wife to Rome to join his relatives, the man accidentally went to meet his family with a prostitute, and the woman inexplicably talked to the big star, and then told the big thief not to clean up and mess up; there was also an employee who inexplicably became a celebrity; a literary young man who was emotional with his girlfriend's friends, oh, this looks quite cheesy, But in this process, there has always been a ghost floating around them like an old man who is not ordinary. Woody Allen told his story in such a nervous way, several stories are somewhat related, and some are unrelated, so it is reasonable for some viewers to criticize him for being completely entertaining himself, but he is not the first time to play like this, so most of the audiences who are disappointed in this film have also had moments with him before, otherwise there would be no disappointment.

In Woody Allen's film, Rome has become a "city of derailment", so there is no pejorative meaning, presumably the citizens of Rome do not have much opinion, blame him for filming France on the span of literary and artistic culture civilization spanning a hundred years, shooting Rome on life is chaotic, men and women are passionate. This is Rome, a fascinating city, the so-called "derailment", aside from feelings, is actually a deviation from the existing track of life. A lot of times, the tedious and dull life needs to get off track and try something, which is what most people don't have the courage to do, because the dull life often means a familiar sense of security. Therefore, many "infidelities" often stem from chance, and even like the suddenly famous middle-aged male staff, it is a mystical force that dominates. It seems that at some point, you should experience some different stimuli of life. Woody Allen's various stories will show different causes of derailment, such as an encounter; such as an accident; such as an encounter, there is luck or doom; there are different derailment processes, or enjoy it, or caught off guard, or sleepy, or irritable; of course, many times, the life of derailment still needs to return to the right track, Woody Allen after creating a bizarre story, or very orthodox to let them deviate from the linear track, Simply deviate from the fierce, out of the strong arc, and finally turn a circle and back to the place where it began, the ending is also very different. The most representative is the middle-aged clerk, suddenly became a national celebrity, rich and powerful women to give hugs, from caught off guard, to enjoy everything, and then to be sought after by fans and the media at all times and tired of this life, but finally when returning to the life of mortals, but crazy to the world unknown and annoyed and frustrated, this is undoubtedly a wonderful irony for many celebrities to the outside world often spit bitter water "want to live the life of ordinary people", the old man is like this, no matter how to play, Don't forget to satirize the various phenomena of reality.

"Love in Rome" is a very interesting movie, but Woody Allen is still weaker than "Midnight in Paris" in the plot of this film, although this film also has an implicit clue of "cheating to returning" implicated each story, but overall the various stories are always too scattered, and even slowly begin to imbalance, from the beginning of several parallel stories, to the later slowly Woody Allen personally played the role of the line became the main line, although the story of the bath singer is indeed interesting, but this caused the film as a whole to be slightly chaotic. Unlike "Midnight in Paris", there is always a cross-cutting story line that presents the humanistic history of Paris, and the film gives people a sense of wholeness and makes the characteristics of the city of Paris impress. And "Love in Rome" is very interesting, and some of the essence of life is very subtle, but even if it constantly shows the beauty of Rome, it will make you feel that these stories are no different from other cities in Europe. The several stories of "Love in Rome" are not better pinched into a whole through the plot, and the story and the city of Rome do not form a good whole, which makes the film give me a feeling of inferior taste. Next, Woody Allen is said to be preparing to return to the United States, and a "Untitled Woody Allen San Francisco Project" movie is being planned, which is why the old man always gives up every time the film is happy or disappointing, because he always launches new works rhythmically, rhythmically making you look forward to hope and disappointment. Whether you're satisfied or disappointed with this "Love in Rome", viewers who like him can turn to his new work that has gathered another batch of stars, waiting to see if his appetite will work against his play next time.