“Life’s too short to waste time thinking about life. Let’s just live it.”
Truer words have never been spoken. These are the words Tom Baxter used to try to woo his fan Cecilia in Woody Allen’s Purple Rose of Cairo. Tom Baxter is a movie character who leaves his film partway through a movie (crazy, I know) to learn about the real world. He falls in love with a down on her luck woman who’s come to see his film five times. The quote above was from when Tom tried to persuade Cecilia that it’s ok to love him even though he’s imaginary. In the context of the movie it’s a bit of a stretch, but in the real world the quote is quite applicable. Too often do we get caught up in what we’re doing that we forget to enjoy ourselves while we’re doing it. It’s easy in life to stop paying attention to the little things that make life such a joy. In the Purple Rose of Cairo Allen makes you think. This is just one quote of many from a very thought provoking movie. It’s the type of movie that after the credits roll you wonder just how much was real and just how much was imaginary. To me I think it’s certainly worth a second viewing.
Truer words have never been spoken. These are the words Tom Baxter used to try to woo his fan Cecilia in Woody Allen’s Purple Rose of Cairo. Tom Baxter is a movie character who leaves his film partway through a movie (crazy, I know) to learn about the real world. He falls in love with a down on her luck woman who’s come to see his film five times. The quote above was from when Tom tried to persuade Cecilia that it’s ok to love him even though he’s imaginary. In the context of the movie it’s a bit of a stretch, but in the real world the quote is quite applicable. Too often do we get caught up in what we’re doing that we forget to enjoy ourselves while we’re doing it. It’s easy in life to stop paying attention to the little things that make life such a joy. In the Purple Rose of Cairo Allen makes you think. This is just one quote of many from a very thought provoking movie. It’s the type of movie that after the credits roll you wonder just how much was real and just how much was imaginary. To me I think it’s certainly worth a second viewing.
2 comments:
I think I would need to watch this movie again just to get a grasp of what the hell was going on. It's very confusing at first. You're right about the stuff about life though. It 's a very surprisingly deep movie, if you think about it. It makes you think about what matters. A lot of this movie was spent distinguishing between what's real and what's not. And it all came down to Cecilia having to choose between living a lie and having a real life. Even though in the end it didn't really work out for her.
I may, like Preston, watch the movie again to grasp what the hell was going on. It would not stem from any confusion. I did not see the profound message that was being sent. What I found was a rather cliched idea which hid behind its cloak of improbability.
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