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the journal of Michael Werneburg

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Sydney, 2000.02.15

This is about a bumbling fellow going through a mid-life crisis, and the wife he leaves early in the movie to become a play-write. While his wife gets back on her feet in reasonably short order, our man makes a series of ever-greater errors in judgement that result in several failed relationships and a lot of misery. Branagh plays Allen's traditional role to a tee, and it quite despicably pathetic, pulling such stunts as breaking up with his girlfriend on the day she's set to move in with him! It's very worth watching.

Recommended.

rand()m quote

Immature poets imitate mature poets steal bad poets deface what they take and good poets make it into something better or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique utterly different than that from which it is torn the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time or alien in language or diverse in interest.

—T.S. Eliot