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Life can be a comedy or a tragedy, it all depends on how you look at it.
2004 · 1h 40m · PG-13
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Directed by
Woody Allen
,
Katie Kreisler
While dining out with friends, Sy suggests the difficulty of separating comedy from tragedy. To illustrate his point, he tells his guests two parallel stories about Melinda ; both versions have the same basic elements, but one take on her state of affairs leans toward levity, while the other is full of anguish. Each story involves Melinda coping with a recent divorce through substance abuse while beginning a romantic relationship with a close friend's husband.
Top critics, in their words
Neither version of Melinda, despite Mitchella(TM)s game try at making them distinctive beyond their different hairdos, is funny or tragic enough to fully engage us; therea(TM)s no opportunity for an audience to be moved.
The Shawn character says, 'Moments of humor do exist (in life). I exploit them, but in a tragic context.' Allen couldn't have said it better himself.
It's middle-rung Woody, but compared to such dismal efforts as "Hollywood Ending" and "Anything Else," the movie is a godsend.
The comic and tragic stories are cleverly intercut, but they're both so inconsequential that it's hard to bring yourself to care which one you're watching.
Has a fascinating premise; it's the execution that's sloppy.
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