In Annie Hall, there is an interesting mixture of the real and the fantastic. It is a very simple love story that is very ordinary and real to life, it could happen to anyone. It tells the story of Alvy Singer and Annie Hall, who fall in love for awhile, but things dont work out, so they break up. What makes this movie different is that it uses an unusual method of commentary to get its point across.
During many parts of the movie, it is not really like a movie. It is just Woody
Allen talking about his life in the movie to us, the audience. In other parts, it is similar to Wild Strawberries, where the old man would have flashbacks where he would walk through scenes from his childhood in that the characters appear in a scene, such as a party in Alvie's childhood. In these scenes, Woody and whoever else is with him are not participants; they are merely onlookers and commentators. These elements of impossible situations are also used as comic relief-- for example, the children in......
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