"Genuine art is incompatible with half-measures (or half-thoughts or half-feelings) and Allen’s movies lack a life-and-death commitment, whatever their particular genre. The director seems now to go through the motions, offering up works that are terribly flat, and generally dull. Since the mid-1990s, it has been hard to distinguish one of his films from another; distinct plots, locations and performers notwithstanding, as all have been stubbornly devoid of urgency, concreteness and opposition. In criticizing Allen’s assembly-line productions, one has to squeeze one’s brain to find new words and fresh thoughts to shed light on the recurring problems. "Nonetheless, with each new film, one hopes that the veteran filmmaker might register something objective and truthful about the world, as he did in the past. One hopes each time that he has finally overcome his tendency to create veiled (or not so veiled), narrow and self-justifying autobiography." wsws.org/en/articles/2013/08/16/jasw-a16.html
Posted on: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 05:42:35 +0000
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