Whenever I feel like I should watch something to raise my spirit, I find myself looking through Woody Allen movies. This is one of those movies that leaves you entertained and amazed at his creativity and imagination. Imagine your favorite character walks out of the movie and comes to you to ask you out and you are so desperate because your marriage is a mess. Plus, he/she is so innocent, kind and good- looking. You are taken to a new level, a level that releases you from your real life pain. The audience is readily tempted to imagine himself in his shoes. This is a movie inside a movie and reality and fiction are hard to distinguish. The characters come and go back to the screen which is played as part of the plot. It must take imagination to write a piece like this, a piece Woody Allen easily comes up with. The hard line between reality and fiction is cleared at the end, though: The main character is deceived by the famous Gil Shepherd who makes promises and forces her to make a choice to save his reputation. Only when she opts for the real instead of the movie character will she realize that the real life is not that rosy.

The only Woody Allen that I hadn't seen. I was waiting for the opportunity to see it on a proper screen in a proper movie theater, with other people you know, like in the previous century. At the end I was convinced to see it in a friend's living room but in one of those super duper mega wide TV screens. What a delight! A movie about the love of something not quite real but that it becomes the more real thing in our lives. The transportation that Mia Farrow goes through while sitting in the movie theater brought tears to my eyes - my friend turned to me in disbelief "Are you weeping? He asked. Well yes, I was. I can't explain it. Have you seen the movie? Sometimes I felt I wanted to sit next to Mia Farrow in see the movie she's watching all the way through. Why not, Jeff Daniels, Mia Farrow, John Wood, Zoe Caldwell, Van Johnson, please! It's so much better in here than out here. You can bet I will see this again. Top notch.

This was a very cool movie. Most of us don't know there are two sides of ourselves, the 'what we do in our physical world' side and the 'what we do in our imagination/thought' side. How many of us know the difference and how much more the imagination/thought side of us affects us more than our 'physical' side and what we are doing in it? Probably not many adults go into too much imagination of what can be, rather than what is or what was. That's why it's important for many of us to learn how to focus on what 'can be' as opposed to 'what is now' or 'what was' in the past. The movie helps us understand and puts a physical perspective on an imaginary mind. So there was the movie character (which was the imaginative and fictional idea which wasn't in the current creation/physical reality) and then there's the real actor playing the imaginative/fictional part of the show. Which one would I rather stay in? That's easy...the imaginative/fictional because eventually as I do, it becomes real to me, so real I can sense it in every part of my being by feeling it, the imagination of myself in an ever-changing and evolving world of desire. It's a interesting concept many of us don't bother to delve into, but I'm learning it all by myself and I couldn't be more proud of how far I've come. It's an older movie and it's even a depiction of the 'great depression' era, which is much older, but it's worth a viewing.

Awww I really liked watching this film, Mia Farrow and Jeff Daniels were adorable. It's sad to think this was set in the Great Depression era. What was even more depressing, I thought Mia Farrows character clearly wasn't lucky in love. I really wish Cecila and the film character Gil were going to be together towards the end. Although if he had to go back in the film, then she should've been with the real Gil. I found it odd that he didn't appear near the end, sure he loved Cecila too! Seriously in my opinion, I think Woody Allen should've had them both living happily ever after. To be honest, I thought the ending was particularly going back to the beginning. It's just Farrows character was beginning to become poor and like, she honestly deserved better. Unfortunately this was 1985, so we can't be complaining now. It is one of the best films at the same time, I really loved the movie! :)