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annie hall

“After that it got pretty late, and we both had to go, but it was great seeing Annie again. I… I realized what a terrific person she was, and… and how much fun it was just knowing her; and I… I, I thought of that old joke, y’know, the, 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?” The guy says, “I would, but I need the eggs.” Well, I guess that’s pretty much now how I feel about relationships; y’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.”

Woody Allen me mataria de rir nesse filme, não fosse os momentos em que ele me faz lembrar o quanto as tais situações podem ser melancolicamente tristes e irremediáveis.

a lula e a baleia

“When I finished the first draft of the script, The Squid and the Whale seemed to me to be the only title. It looked good in caps on the Final Draft title page and that was that. I like it because I don’t really know what it means. It refers to something very specific in the movie (namely a squid and whale), but its abstract meaning eludes me. “Is your mom the squid and your dad the whale?” That’s another one I get. “I have no fucking idea” is the answer. Another good thing about the title is that it means something different to the viewer after they’ve seen the movie. I know that in this day and age that reasoning would probably fall into the category of “bad marketing decision.” So be it. It’s the right title for this movie. And you can’t have it.” [by writer/director Noah Baumbach]

No dias de hoje, quando a tecnologia permite que se faça de tudo, ou quase tudo, numa tela de cinema, ainda me impressiona, me emociona e agrada que alguns filmes não precisem de muita coisa para serem de boa qualidade em todos os aspectos. A Lula e a Baleia é, definitivamente, um desses filmes.

the royal tenenbaums

Aproveitando o gancho de Wes Anderson ser o produtor de A Lula e a Baleia, e só pra não perder o costume de ver quinhetas vezes os meus preferidos. Aos que se interessam, a trilha sonora está disponível, na integra, aqui.