Woody Allen - do you agree?

[buschmaster]

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[Hermit]

people used to be more personable, friendly, accomodating to each other, community-oriented, family oriented.

Let's sing together. Let's sing the signature tune of a classic documentary. One, two, three and "The hillllllllls are alive with the sound of muuuuuusik..."

[Cunt]

people used to be more personable, friendly, accomodating to each other, community-oriented, family oriented.

They did? When was this exactly?

In the memories of some old folks with dementia creeping up on them.

And of course Little House On The Prarie.

[SpeedOfSound]

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.
Woody Allen.

Love that guy.

[hiyymer]

"I do feel that it is a grim, painful, nightmarish, meaningless experience and that the only way that you can be happy is if you tell yourself some lies and deceive yourself."

Do you agree?

I like Woody Allen because he puts that crap in his movies and then laughs at himself. It is always the neurotic zoned out intellectual jerk who is being dragged into life who says that stuff. The rest of the characters are blissfully pursuing their irrational passions and leaving him standing on the sidelines wringing his hands.

A while back, I saw his recent one "whatever works". It's this wonderful tale of up-tight heartland stereotypes who come to NYC and find their true bliss and true passions. Of course there's the neurotic divorced ex college professor NYC resident who plays the Woody Allen narrator to the point of doing asides to the cinema audience. He's the only character in the movie who remains static, rigid and chronically unhappy.

[Tero]

I dunno. Now my favorite Woody movie is still Take the money and run.

[stripes4]

I agree to some extent. I used to be more miserable because I thought i was meant to be 'happy'. Now I know it's not a given that anyone is owed 'happiness' I tend to enjoy moments of happiness more, against the backdrop of fairly consistent hard work, exhaustion, single child rearing, lonliness and battle to fit in my jeans, that is my existence. Accepting that life is a constant struggle has freed me from the feeling that I am being cheated out of happiness, so moments of joy take me by surprise and are all the more cherished.