From: yrol@invalid.fr   
      
   On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 05:10:58 -0400, strwbery_fields@webtv.net (Mr. KiTe)   
   wrote:   
      
   >The rage in AE is always beneath the surface if you look for it. David   
   >Dobel is a great character/performance, and vital to the core of   
   >Anything Else. Dobel not only smashes the window, and buys the gun in a   
   >rather preachy sequence, he tells tales of beating the shrink with an   
   >extinguisher, he means to shoot the cop in the ass. Is he making it up?   
   >Perhaps, but there is wisdom in these jokes.   
      
   Excuse my english !   
      
   Anything else is a very deep film but not a political movie. It's about the   
   violence but it's more complex than that. David Dobel (Dobel like double)   
   and the young Jerry are the same people in a certain way (David is Alvy   
   Singer later ?) as the Jerry will be David later.   
      
   At one time, David speaks to Jerry :   
      
   "And I was pouring my heart out to the driver about all the stuff you were   
   prattling on about... life, death, the empty universe, the meaning of   
   existence, human suffering. And the cab driver said to me:   
   "You know, it's like anything else."   
      
   And to the end, Jerry says :   
      
   "I was just saying how strange life is, how full of inexplicable mystery."   
      
   And the cab driver says : " Well, you know, it's like anything else !"   
      
   David and Jerry lives the same experience.   
      
   In Stig Bjorkman's book (interviews with Woody Allen), Woody Allen says   
   that the "evolution, it is death." It can be good for somebody in his life   
   but in the long term, nothing changes really, it is death.   
      
   And it seems to me, it's for his reason that in Anything else, the   
   situation of Jerry changes (he leaves Amanda, his agent etc.) but after the   
   movie, he'll become like David. He will repeat the same errors. It's the   
   same pattern in Another Woman. Hope disappears mysteriously like David. It   
   is just reversed and Woody Allen adores the characters who are opposed   
   according to a logic of mirror (reversed symmetry).   
      
   All Woody Allen's movies  say the same thing : less the reality is accepted   
   as it is, more we fall in the neurosis.   
      
   >Never trust a Naked Bus Driver !   
      
   Off course.   
   --   
   Yannick Rolandeau   
   http://yrol.free.fr/   
   "Un homme qui n'est jamais idiot n'est pas tout à fait humain"   
                       Gonzalo Torrente Ballester   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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