Annie Hall ...u Jien

Forsi l-aktar kummiedja 'romantika' li tibqa' iffossilizzata f'moħħi hija bla dubju ta' xejn "Annie Hall". Pellicola tal-1977 b'Woody Allen u Diane Keaton fil-partijiet prinċipali imma bil-kimika friska friska fl-imħuħ ta' ħafna namrati/għarajjes/konviventi li kkonvinċew ruħhom li Romeo u Ġuljetta qatt m'eżistew. Mill-pinna ta' dak li jien laqqamtu the geeky genius (Woody Allen) joħorġu Annie Hall u Alvy Singer f'relazzjoni semi-passjonali, semi-falluta. Vjaġġ elaborat fid-diffikultajiet, it-taqtigħat li jgħaddu minnhom tnejn min-nies li qed jippruvaw jibnu xi ħaġa speċjali f'vacuum ta' konkrit.

Xtaqt biss nikkwota xi kwotazzjonijiet perli:

ALVY: There's an old joke. Uh, two elderly women are at a Catskills mountain resort, and one of 'em says: "Boy, the food at this place is really terrible." The other one says, "Yeah, I know, and such ... small portions." Well, that's essentially how I feel about life. Full of loneliness and misery and suffering and unhappiness, and it's all over much too quickly. The-the other important joke for me is one that's, uh, usually attributed to Groucho Marx, but I think it appears originally in Freud's wit and its relation to the unconscious. And it goes like this-I'm paraphrasing: Uh ... "I would never wanna belong to any club that would have someone like me for a member." That's the key joke of my adult life in terms of my relationships with women.

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ANNIE: Well, I-I-I would-I would like to take a serious photography course soon.
*Again, Annie's thoughts pop on: He probably thinks I'm a yo-yo*
ALVY: Photography's interesting, 'cause, you know, it's-it's a new art form, and a, uh, a set of aesthetic criteria have not emerged yet.
*And Alvy's: I wonder what she looks like naked?*
ANNIE: Aesthetic criteria? You mean, whether it's, uh, good photo or not?
*I'm not smart enough for him. Hang in there*
ALVY: The-the medium enters in as a condition of the art form itself. That's I don't know what I'm saying.
*She senses I'm shallow*
ANNIE: Well, well, I ... to me-I ... I mean, it's-it's-it's all instinctive, you know. I mean, I just try to uh, feel it, you know? I try to get a sense of it and not think about it so much.
*God, I hope he doesn't turn out to be a shmuck like the others*
ALVY: Still, still you need a set of aesthetic guide lines to put it in social perspective, I think.

*****

ALVY: I-I thought of that old joke, you know, this- this-this guy goes to a psychiatrist and says, "Doc, uh, my brother's crazy. He thinks he's a chicken." And, uh, the doctor says, "Well, why don't you turn him in?" And the guy says, "I would, but I need the eggs." Well, I guess that's pretty much how how I feet about relationships. You know, they're totally irrational and crazy and absurd and ... but, uh, I guess we keep goin' through it because, uh, most of us need the eggs.