I try to avoid lumping criticism of art with artists' actions - his crimes should speak for himself But I think Orson Welles nailed it when he said Woody Allen's movies have this paper-thin performative veneer of bashful humility but actually reveal a monstrous arrogancehttps://twitter.com/susie_parker/status/1366602221752881153 …
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Like I dunno I'm not saying misanthrope = predator or that the movies you make are a "smoking gun" about your rl behavior (although making a goddamn movie about dating a teenager is kind of a red flag)
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But I'm just saying if you're gonna bring his movies into it at all the whole question of "Would someone that famous under that much scrutiny commit such a blatant crime and then lie to everyone's faces about it?" seems easy to answer if you've seen his movies Yeah, totally
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That movie about dating a teenager, Manhattan? The attitude that animates it, buried under all this sentimentality and Gershwin and shit, is that the world is a bunch of fucking HYPOCRITES who have NO RIGHT to HUMILIATE him constantly for JUST WANTING TO BE HAPPY AND GET OFF
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WHAT'S WRONG WITH HAVING A SEX DRIVE? WHAT'S WRONG WITH CATERING TO HIS OWN NEEDS FOR ONCE? YOU ALL HAVE SKELETONS IN YOUR CLOSETS TOO, NONE OF YOU HAS A LEG TO STAND ON It's all... extremely familiar stuff from a self-justifying wrongdoer
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I'm not saying this attitude - "trying to hold onto the capacity for self-love in a world of judgmental hypocrites" - makes you a predator, whatever you think of it But the character in the movie objectively IS a predator - she's fucking 17 - and uses this attitude as armor
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To add another layer to this shit cake, Louis CK's infamously buried movie I Love You Daddy was a very explicit deconstruction/homage to Manhattan - intentionally pretentious black-and-white and all
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And it's the same self-justifying garbage The self-deprecation from CK is sharper and more vulgar and has more swear words but it's ultimately the same attitude "You know what? I know I suck, I know you have contempt for me, but fuck you I can do what I want, step off"
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I was fond of Annie Hall (and Manhattan, despite the ick factor) but I think I assumed insight that Allen doesn't actually have I watched his character drive Annie away with endless criticism and negativity & thought "so he understands he shouldn't act like that" Well, nope
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