I watched the movie Annie Hall today (only $9.47 from Amazon.com). In case you're not familiar with it, Annie Hall is a Woody Allen movie from 1977. People must have liked it back then because it won four Academy Awards: Best Picture (beating out Star Wars), Director (Woody Allen), Actress (Diane Keaton) and Original Screenplay.
Woody Allen plays a neurotic Jewish guy (basically the same character he plays in all of his movies), and Diane Keaton plays Annie Hall. The movie is about their relationship.
The movie begins with an opening monlogue in which Woody Allen makes two observations that I agree with 100%:
1. "[Life is] full of loneliness and misery and suffering and unahappiness, and it's all over much to quickly."
2. "I would never want to belong to any club that would have someone like me for a member."
More than one commenter to my blog has mentioned observation #2.
I think the funniest scene in the movie is when Annie Hall orders pastrami on white bread with mayonnaise, tomatoes, and lettuce. And she did it without any hint of irony; it's no wonder why she won an Academy Award.
A guy like Woody Allen, short, balding, nerdy and with an incredibly annoying personality, would never even be able to get even a single date with a woman as cute as Diane Keaton in 2006. This either means that (a) women were different back in 1977; or (b) this is just Woody Allen's fantasy and in no way reflects reality.
I leave it to my always knowledgeable readers to suggest which of these two interpretations is correct.
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