Midnight in Paris is a beautifully produced film that has captivated the hearts of many viewers, directed by the famous Woody Allen, won the Oscar for Best Screenplay and was nominated for several awards, it is a unique opportunity to see great players together.
From Tom Hiddleston to Kathy Bates and Marion Cotillard, moviegoers find many of their favorite personalities in this film. In addition, fans of art and literature can find many details about the works and lives of great representatives of culture.
- Shot in Paris.
- The city of light.
- Midnight in Paris is visually amazing.
- The game of shadows and lights transforms a contemporary Paris into a 1920s Paris.
- In addition.
- The film recreates many of the emblematic places of the 1920s.
- Where great thinkers and artists gathered.
Without a doubt, Midnight in Paris will make you want to pack up and catch the first flight to France.
Gil Pender is a writer of Hollywood. Si his work has allowed him to prosper financially, it is not enough for his mind. Gil wants more than he hasn’t found in his current life.
When he and his wife go to Paris, Gil wants to discover the city in a romantic way, take a walk through the alleys and drink wine under the stars, for example, but his wife Inez has other plans.
One afternoon, while Gil is strolling at midnight, Paris offers him an incredible opportunity: in a magical way, Gil was transported to Paris in the 1920s, where he met all the great artists of the moment, became friends with Hemingway and met Salvador Dalí and Pablo Picasso.
While in the 1920s, Gil had a dream he never thought he would live. He always wanted to meet in person these artists he admired so much. Just before his “time travel,” Gil had idealized the 1920s, which he called the Golden Years.
Gil imagines this period as the highest moment in the arts, literature and culture in general. During this fantastic moment, Gil will meet a lovely young woman: Adriana.
Gil falls in love with Adriana and what she represents: the cultural life of the time that he idealizes, however, Gil only realizes that he is living a dream when he and Adriana are transported to the past.
Just as Gil managed to arrive in the 1920s, Adriana and Gil were sent in 1890, there they met Toulouse-Lautrec, Paul Gaugin and Edgar Degas, when Adriana admits that this is her favorite moment, the three painters laugh with contempt. three believe that the golden age occurred much earlier.
Only then does Gil realize that he feels nostalgic, he also realizes that we have all felt it one way or another, after all, the present is confusing and we feel that the past was not only better, but also simpler and happier.
In the film, Gil Pender seems to experience two types of nostalgia
It is, therefore, the first kind of nostalgia that leads Gil to enjoy his travels through the Paris of the past, but it is personal nostalgia that motivates him to return to the present.
Paul Bates says, at one point in the film, that nostalgia is nothing more than a denial of the painful present; nostalgia is the desire for a past (recent or distant), and this desire comes when a person is dissatisfied with the present.
Nostalgia can be interpreted as a defense mechanism that allows us to deny bad experiences (at least momentarily). In fact, nostalgia is a fantasy, usually idealized.
On the other hand, nostalgia can only be effectively overcome when it is recognized that it has been idealized. You have to start to understand the time you want as a time that has also had bad parts.
Thus, Gil recognized that the 1920s also experienced negative moments and that the present is not always bad.
Midnight in Paris not only portrays nostalgia as a sense of negative value, but reveals that the past is nothing more than a fantasy and, at the same time, offers us a small escape valve in the past.
It does not benefit us to live in a bygone era, but we can transform our lives and approach what brings us happiness, to what was present in our fantasies.
In Gil’s case, he decides to return to the present, move to Paris and start his life as a novelist, fantasies and nostalgia can help us identify aspects with which we are not satisfied, only by identifying them can we change our lives in the direction we want. To want.