We all need eggs - About "Annie Hall"

Someone came to a psychiatrist and said that his brother thought he was a chicken. The doctor asked: Then why didn't you just bring him here? The answer I got was: Because I need eggs!

We began to become sensitive and suspicious, and unexpected things happened one after another, but we were helpless and could not find the answer, so we could only sigh in response. We wanted to go to the doctor for help, but we were stubborn and ignored the reality. If we have to find a reason for all this, it's probably because we all need eggs.

Ivey was a typical intellectual in the 1970s. He was sensitive, irritable, neurotic, extremely left-wing, and wanted to bring everything back to the path of idealism. This image will never go out of style, and you and I will have friends like this around us all the time—or maybe we are just like this.

Ivy's childhood memories stay in two places: a home built under the roller coaster track, and a mediocre and inhibited elementary school. So when he was at home, Ivey was always in turmoil, but he knew clearly that such turmoil would not bring substantial harm; when he was in school, he wanted to kiss a female classmate, but was repeatedly diagnosed with "precocious puberty". "It's wrong" was punished for such ridiculous reasons.

Such a living environment suppressed little Ivy’s heart day after day. He needed to vent and release, but the way he chose was to drive a bumper car. Later, Ivy and Annie broke up in Los Angeles. After the breakup, he backed up carelessly in the parking lot, causing collisions, as if he had rediscovered the feeling of driving bumper cars in his childhood. Unfortunately, this time the traffic police took him to a detention center. The two choices about bumper cars at the beginning and end of the film perfectly explain Ivey's life - every time he musters up the courage to hit the ugly reality at full speed, all he gets in exchange is a "poof" and reality. Ruthless ridicule.

The absurdity of life is: when Xuanzang started walking westward in order to promote Buddhism, people cheered loudly, thinking it was a lively travel show. Ivey thought he was a thinker, but people only regarded him as a comedian who had appeared on TV. When he saw Max editing laughs into sitcoms that weren't funny, he was outraged, thinking he was deceiving the audience. The irony is that when the people being deceived are willing to be deceived, what reason do the bystanders have to be angry?

Annie's appearance ignited Ivy's boring life, but who can tell what they fell in love with each other? Annie is not smart enough, has no talent, and loves vanity. These qualities have been complained and disliked by Ivy more than once. Compared to his two ex-wives, Anne seems too ordinary, but why can such a person be so haunting and unforgettable for Ivy?

I don’t want to bother to explain. Everyone can only have their own answer to this kind of question. I have mine, you have yours, and Ivy has Ivy’s.

Like everyone else, the love between Ivy and Annie has gone through the initial flawlessness and began to expose unavoidable problems. She couldn't understand why she had to study more to try to keep up with his thoughts, and he couldn't understand why she couldn't concentrate on having sex without taking drugs.

In fact, there is so much truth to be said, and how can we doubt that love has changed because of these performances. But human nature is suspicious. No matter how close two hearts are, they are separated by two layers of belly. Who can see clearly?

Amid Ivy's complaints, Annie moves into his apartment. Ivy reads "Death" and Annie reads poetry. A lobster can make two people fuss and leave unforgettable memories. Life has returned to dullness but storms are beginning to brew again.

Would things have been different if I hadn’t met Rossi? Are things going to be different if you don’t go to Los Angeles? Is it just a matter of Ivy staying on the plane, or is the two of them just thinking about the past in the apartment for a while longer... We don't know, life doesn't give us the opportunity to modify our options.

If Ivey had always thought that Annie was more inseparable from him, now he began to sadly realize that he was the one who was stuck deeper.

But it was too late for such remorse. He flew to Los Angeles and flew back alone. Did Annie completely forget about Ivy? All I can say is that I don’t know, and Woody left a clever blank slate about Annie’s time on the West Coast, leaving us to speculate.

Later, Ivey filmed a movie based on himself. The difference was that when the hero begged the heroine to come with him in a health food store, the heroine nodded. Everyone was applauding, and Ivy was also very satisfied.

Later, Annie returned to New York, and Ivey said that they had met several more times. This description was as plain as water, and it was related to the long-term sleepiness not long ago, which always made people feel as if they were in another world.

At the end, Ivey told the joke I quoted at the beginning of the article, and then shrugged helplessly and said: We all need eggs. A joke allows us to see absurdity and Woody to see life.

The biggest question the movie leaves us with is, does Ivy still love Annie at the end? I think so, Ivy no longer likes Annie, but he still loves her deeply.

According to my understanding, liking is always a decision made by the brain. We see a person who is beautiful and hear him talk well, so we start to like him. This kind of feeling can be explained clearly, and it can even be quantitatively analyzed. The reasons for liking it are 123, and the degree of liking is one to two or three points. But love comes from the heart. You don't know when it will come or when it will go. Look at Annie, even though Ivey didn't like her laziness, stupidity, vanity, and drug abuse... he still loved her deeply. He thought it was time to separate, but once he separated, he lost everything.

Even though he knew there was no way to bring Annie back to his own world, Ivy still loved her. Isn't it? We know exactly what we should do, but there is nothing we can do about our own hearts.

Because we still love, because we still need eggs.

After "Annie Hall", no movie can explain love thoroughly.