There is nothing like a label to help explain oneself
– thank you Woody Allen.
The first time I
saw Midnight in Paris I
remember thinking what a beautiful film composed of
a montage of postcard-pretty Parisian street scenes. I had missed completely
Paul’s criticism of Gil Pender, accusing him of harbouring a "Golden
Age Thinking" style.
Midnight in Paris is a romantic comedy fantasy film
written and directed by Woody Allen. Taking place in Paris, the film follows
Gil Pender, a screenwriter, who is forced to confront the shortcomings of his
relationship with his materialistic fiancée and their divergent goals, which
become increasingly exaggerated as he travels back in time each night and
exploring, along the way, the contrasts of nostalgia and modernism.
Woody
Allen offers a thought-provoking proposition. The idea that (the erroneous
notion) that a different time period is better than the one one's living in.
That it a flaw in the romantic imagination of those people who find it
difficult to cope with the present and that nostalgia is denial, denial of the
painful present. He calls this golden age thinking.
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