“A classic Woody
Allen point, sardonically bittersweet”
It’s that time again…………..that of many special occasions we
have through the year!………………..When we loyally anticipate the new Woody Allen
movie of the summer!!!
Café Society stars Jesse Eisenberg as Bobby, a young New
Yorker who decides to move from home to LA to make it in Hollywood. Knowing he
has an uncle in the business played by Steve Carrell, Bobby instances his uncle
gives him a job and through that Bobby meets his uncle’s assistant Vonnie,
played by Kristen Stewart. Though Vonnie works within Hollywood, she resists
the life style and prefers things on a more intimate level and as her and Bobby
work together, they bond on these ideals and Bobby begins to fall for her and
in return falls for him. Things get fragmented though, as Bobby becomes more
and more consumed by the Hollywood business, making Vonnie’s bond with him less
enchanting while all the while knowing she had something real with him from the
start.
What’s intriguing about Café Society is that most of the movie
from the start is an exercise in distraction. Bobby’s career trajectory,
Vonnie’s identity struggle and the conquests of the side characters hold no
weight and purposely so, in order for the naturally realized epiphany of the
movie to strike. Café Society is structured to express its main point; man-made
excitement only goes so far in the human mind, because it isn’t tangle, as it
maintains survival but isn’t the venture of survival. We pay more attention to
status because it’s visible but not towards emotional bond because it’s not.
Café Society leaves to say, that so much can change and
improve in your life. So much can go by and flourish, but the end result, no
matter how big, falls short, when the couple of moments that lead to it all,
can’t be recalled. Café Society will leave you stuck in your chair, realizing
it’s those moments we need the most.
This may be Woody Allen’s darkest film yet.
-Maurice Jones
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rl4X6pFfmTI
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