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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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 found it interesting that someone in the docuseries likened his films to grooming society to accept his behavior, but that seems too conscious. It seems more as if that defensiveness and obsession is simply such a part of him that it permeates everything he does.
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