There’s a lot to like in “Manhattan” but I have to admit the May/December romance made me shutter. And not in a good way.
“...the May/December romance made me shutter. And not in a good way.”
Agreed. When it came out I thought it was just another example of a guy making a movie thinking he looked better next to a young pretty girl. Never dreamed he was not only realizing that dream. Though many think years later I’m pretty sure he was doing so then and likely for years by then.
I find Woody Allen very likeable and wish he was not making the mistakes he does, or the actual choices is a better way to put it. I do believe there is a lot of that in Hollywood and it’s more prevalent than we’d like to know about. As my mom would say, the dirty old goats.
Btw, Soon Yee is in Hannah and her sisters, about 8 yrs old or so. She is at the beginning Thanksgiving dinner and in the end Thanksgiving dinner party. Short cropped haircut.
Woody Allen is a pedophile and manhattan was him hinting at it to the world. He is attracted to girls who are past puberty but under the age of consent, and apparently follows through. In Manhattan, I believe (it’s been years), he comes home and a young teen girl wearing a woody Allen t shirt is hiding in his bedroom. When he discovers her, she indicates she wants to seep with him. He shrugs, and turns out the light — a symbol of sex in the movies for many decades. He also has a 17 year old high school student girlfriend, while his friends are all dating adult women.
He did go against taboo by sleeping with and taking nude photos of, his long time girlfriend’s underage daughter. There is no world in which that is correct or decent behavior. Men sleeping with young teens is wrong. Men sleeping with their girlfriend’s underage child is always dead wrong. Sick.
Then he was witnessed by housekeepers etc spending way too much intense alone time cuddled up with Mia’s 7 year old daughter. Ignoring his own son with her and constantly trying to “woo” this little girl. Including some inappropriate touching.
He was not allowed to be alone with is own son for a long time.
His movie may be fantastic. I swore I’d never watch another WA movie again, but one night I saw a movie in the middle on TV and got caught up and adored it. Found out afterward, it was Midnight in Paris by Woody Allen. I watched it again from the beginning. He can really make good movies. But he’s another scumbag like Polanski, who also can make good films.
A case of life imitating art, or vice versa.