We began to become sensitive and suspicious, and unexpected things happened one after another, but we could only sigh. We want to ask the doctor for help, but we are stubborn and ignore the reality. If we must find a reason for all this, it's probably because we all need eggs.
Ivey was a typical intellectual in 1970s. He is sensitive, irritable, neurotic and left-leaning, trying to pull everything back to the road of idealism. Such an image will never be out of date, and friends like this will always appear around you and me-or you and I are such people.
Ivey's childhood memories stay in two places: a home built under the roller coaster track and a mediocre and boring primary school that suppresses nature. So at home, Ivey is always in turmoil, but he clearly knows that such turmoil can't bring substantial harm; At school, he tried to kiss his female classmates, but he was repeatedly punished for absurd reasons such as "precocious puberty is not right".
Such a living environment suppresses little Ivy's heart day after day. He needs to vent and release, but the way he chooses is to drive a bumper car. Later, after Evie and Anne broke up in Los Angeles, he backed up in the parking lot and bumped everywhere, just like driving a bumper car when he was a child. Unfortunately, the traffic police took him to the detention center this time. The two choices of bumper cars at the beginning and the end of the film perfectly explain Ivey's life-every time he musters up courage and slams the ugly reality, all he gets is a "poof" and a cruel sneer at the reality.
The absurdity of life lies in that when Xuanzang began to travel westward to promote Buddhism, people applauded and thought it was a lively travel program. Ivy thinks he is a thinker, but people only think he is a comedian who has been on TV. When he saw Max cut the punchline into a sitcom that was not funny, he was very angry and thought it was cheating the audience. Ironically, when the deceived person is willing to be deceived, what reason does the bystander have to be angry?
Anne's appearance ignited Ivy's boring life, but who can tell why they fell in love? Anne is not clever, talented or vain. These qualities have been spit out and rejected by Ivy League more than once. Compared with his two ex-wives, Annie is really too ordinary, but why can such a person make Ivy unforgettable?
I don't want to bother to interpret this kind of problem. Everyone can only have their own answers in their hearts. I have mine, you have yours and Ivy has Ivy's.
Like everyone else, Ivey and Anne's love experienced the initial perfection and began to expose unavoidable problems. She can't understand why she has to read more books to try to keep up with his thoughts. He can't understand why it is difficult for her to concentrate on sex without taking drugs.
In fact, how can there be so much truth to tell, how can you doubt that love has changed quality because of these performances? But human nature is suspicious, and no matter how close two hearts are, they are separated by two layers of stomachs. Who can see who completely?
Amid Ivy's complaints, Anne moved into his apartment. Ivy reads Death and Annie reads poetry. A lobster can make two people make a scene and leave unforgettable memories. Life is dull, but it is brewing.
Would things be different if I hadn't met Rosie? Would things be different if we didn't go to Los Angeles? Whether it was just Ivey who stayed on the plane for a while, and whether the two of them spent more time reminiscing about the past in the apartment ... We don't know, but life didn't give us a chance to modify the options.
If Ivy used to think that Anne was more inseparable from herself, now he is beginning to find sadly that he is the one who is deeper. But this confession is too late. He flew to Los Angeles and came back alone. Has Annie completely forgotten Ivy? I can only say that I don't know. Woody cleverly brushed aside Anne's days on the west coast, so we had to guess everything.
Later, Ivy made a play based on herself. The difference is that when the hero begged the heroine to join him in the health food store, the heroine nodded. Everyone is applauding, and Ivy is very satisfied.
Later, Anne returned to new york, and Ivy said that they had met several times. This kind of narrative is as plain as water, which always makes people feel like a lifetime ago.
Finally, Ivy told the joke I quoted at the beginning of the article, and then shrugged helplessly and said, we all need eggs. A joke made us see the absurdity and let Woody see life.
The biggest question left by the movie is, finally, does Ivy still love Annie? I think so, too. Ivy doesn't like Annie anymore, but he still loves her deeply.
According to my understanding, liking is always a decision made by the brain. We see a beautiful person, and when we hear that he speaks well, we begin to like him. This feeling is clear and can even be quantitatively analyzed. The reason for liking is 123, and the degree of liking is one point, two points and three points. But love comes from the heart. You don't know when it will come and go. Look at Annie. Even though Ivy doesn't like her laziness, stupidity, vanity and drug addiction ... he still loves her deeply. He thought it was time to leave, but once he left, he lost everything.
Ivy still loves Annie, even though she knows there is no way to get her back to her own world. Isn't it? We know exactly what we should do, but there is nothing we can do about our hearts.
Because we are still in love, because we still need eggs.
Annie. After Hall, no movie can make love clear.