Golden Age
If you could travel back to any single place and time, where and when would it be?
Last night I saw Woody Allen’s new film Midnight in Paris, without writing a “Film Review”
Let me just say that the film, aside from telling story of the ebb and flow of inter-twining love interests; it also addresses the romance people can feel for a time and place.
The protagonist in the tale Gill, (Owen Wilson) walks through the streets of Paris in search of the Dream of the Paris of the 20s. Through the magic of film, at the stroke of midnight he is approached by a vintage auto that has the power to bring him to the very center of the time and place he has longed to see. A city of beauty, populated by Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Picasso and a host of artistic treasures at the height of their prowess with Gertrude Stein holding court. For Gill this is the Artistic "Shangri-La" , a utopian dream to be able to learn from and be accepted into the heart of “His Golden Age”.
But woody Allen does not write for Disney, so we find that just as he in convinced that It is Paris in the 20s that was the undisputed height of civilization, he falls in love with a woman that “Is” a part of that world yet pines for an earlier time. It is Gill that realizes the artist or romantic in any time period will see the beauty of some bygone area.
The film shows people that are happy to live in the present, and have no fantasy about the past. There are also characters that see beauty only in the past. But that ultimately maybe the of us can appreciate the beauty, and greatness of past achievements, while embracing the world where we find ourselves today. The only “True world” we can occupy.
But If you could , let's say just visit any time or place- Where and when would it be.
If you could travel back to any single place and time, where and when would it be?
Last night I saw Woody Allen’s new film Midnight in Paris, without writing a “Film Review”
Let me just say that the film, aside from telling story of the ebb and flow of inter-twining love interests; it also addresses the romance people can feel for a time and place.
The protagonist in the tale Gill, (Owen Wilson) walks through the streets of Paris in search of the Dream of the Paris of the 20s. Through the magic of film, at the stroke of midnight he is approached by a vintage auto that has the power to bring him to the very center of the time and place he has longed to see. A city of beauty, populated by Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Picasso and a host of artistic treasures at the height of their prowess with Gertrude Stein holding court. For Gill this is the Artistic "Shangri-La" , a utopian dream to be able to learn from and be accepted into the heart of “His Golden Age”.
But woody Allen does not write for Disney, so we find that just as he in convinced that It is Paris in the 20s that was the undisputed height of civilization, he falls in love with a woman that “Is” a part of that world yet pines for an earlier time. It is Gill that realizes the artist or romantic in any time period will see the beauty of some bygone area.
The film shows people that are happy to live in the present, and have no fantasy about the past. There are also characters that see beauty only in the past. But that ultimately maybe the of us can appreciate the beauty, and greatness of past achievements, while embracing the world where we find ourselves today. The only “True world” we can occupy.
But If you could , let's say just visit any time or place- Where and when would it be.
