The Piano

        The relationship between Ada and Baines starts out very odd. He immediately is attracted to her, and that attraction turns into an admiration. Some say he was just attracted to her piano playing skills. But at in any case he knows what he wants, and that’s her. He takes the piano away from her, then offers it back, but only if he can admire her a little closer. She agrees. 

        Baines inches closer and closer to physical intimacy with his requests of Ada, until finally that is his exact request. He does not request sex, but to lie down naked next to one another. Now these next few moments in the movie I find to be verging on rape. I do not believe that at any point in the film Baines rapes Ada. Rape is roughly defined as one individual forcing another to participate in a sexual act, without one of the person’s consent, conscious consent that is.

         Every time her and Baines performed a sexual act together she did agree and she was completely of a sound mind. Furthermore they did not actually act in a complete sexual manner until it was actually Ada’s idea. So no I do not believe that Baines (George as they refer to him sometimes) raped Ada, while Stewart is another story completely. 

        Before I end this post I would like to explain the relationship development between Baines and Ada a little better. Like I said before Baines was immediately smitten for Ada. But for Ada the feelings didn't come about until after he sort of 'let her go', I'm not sure whether it was the feeling that she had to have what she couldn't have, or what, they did not explain what changed her mind too well. But she fell for him just as he did for her. She became a different person, doing anything and everything to get to see Baines, she would even ignore her child, which she was very close to in the beginning of the film, she risked a lot. 

        Now the feeling of love was mutual, I think the build up to their 'relationship' was good on timing but lacked details. Again I couldn't actually tell you why she changed her mind about Baines but by the end watching them fight for their love was quite sweet. 

Annie Hall

        There is a scene in the movie were the characters Annie, Alvy, and Rob, go out to brooklyn to see Alvy’s childhood home. They go inside and as Alvy tells a few stories the don’t only see a few flashbacks, they are in the corner re-living the events. A minute or so later they begin hassling Alvy’s Aunt Tessie, about such things as her looks and her personality. The scene even goes as far as to have the present characters and the flashback characters have a back-and-forth conversation. That scene is definitely an example of Woody Allen’s humor at the time, odd dry and lots of breaking the fourth wall scenes. I’m not a huge fan of this movie, but I did find myself smiling at some of the scenes like this. The awkward unrealistic way it has to it is so weird and out there that it’s funny. 

       But as I said overall I did not like this movie too much. I thought it was a bit depressing, the whole plot of the movie was about a break-up between a couple, and I did not like the character Alvy very much either. I thought he was quite whiny and negative in his overall mentality. I do realize that all of this is supposed to be taken as dry classic Woody Allen humor but I just did not enjoy it, for whatever reason I did not take it in very well. 

Daisies

   

   I'll just start this post out by saying I did not like this nor was I able to follow this movie. I pretty much had no idea what was going on at any time. But I will try to explain my thoughts on the subject given best I can.

         The way this movie is set out is definitely odd. Like nothing I've seen before. You could very well say the genre is humor. The director clearly wanted humor to be a big part of it. At any given moment the girls are either giggling or making snarky comments to either each other or another new gentleman.

         The whole story is weird. Are they sisters? What do they want to do with their lives? I truly do not see this movies purpose. But nonetheless it is clear that humor was all visual.












Photo found here: https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQggAP7s6XPbYHvqkU_t236viVJtpM1ryE_QTk43aFFZltv7_OYKA