The reviews were so harsh that, even being a major Woody Allen fan, I almost passed on "Irrational Man". Needless to say I saw and enjoyed it. Allen's topic was once again the meaning of life for the individual, and the answer again was generated in an unethically bizarre act. The film moved forward at a snail's pace though, and the conclusion was as apparent as a multiple choice school exam. I'm wondering if Allen is reliving and regretting his life. In "Midnight in Paris" he introduced authors Hemingway, Fitzgerald, T. S. Elliot and others. One, Luis Bunuel, was a film director. Allen had the audacity to intimate that a lowly screenwriter could suggest the plot for "Exterminating Angel" one of Bunuel's many excellent films... Was Allen saying that he was the lowly screenwriter, yet he could write scripts better than the best of them? Was he saying that he could write great and memorable literature like Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Eugene O'Neill, and he belonged with that crowd? Allen dropped literary names in this film as well. He mentioned or referred to Sartre and Camus, 'the post-war existentialists', and Fyodor Dostoyevsky. I enjoyed this film simply as a reminder of what Woody Allen is all about; a creative story teller and an extremely talented writer.
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