It was 1977 when the film Neurivo Groom, Nervous Bride, was created, years when it was still possible to live without the technology that we are now seeing from afar as if it were another dimension, even over time it seems that this Woody Allen classic is not out of season, because even today we can smile attending its ingenious dialogues and monologues.
Neurotic boyfriend, nervous girlfriend attracts the viewer directly. Allen breaks into our lives, looking at the camera and making us partakers of the film. Do you play with us, presenting us with tours, back and forth in time, subtitles to express the thinking of the characters?It even includes animated fragments such as a parody of Snow White and the seven dwarfs.
- In addition to being a pleasure to see.
- With a really interesting and innovative aesthetic.
- Groom Neurotic.
- Bride Nervosatraz for comedy a very realistic psychological component.
- Which plays very well with the problems of contemporary man.
- The fears and neuroses of an era that.
- Although much has changed from today.
- Is still present in our daily lives.
Awarded several Oscar nominations, recognized as one of the best screenplays in film history and as the best romantic comedy, Groom Neurotic, Nervous Bride is a must. And THE Romantic Comedy is contemporary life. Totally witty, spontaneous and thoughtful, it delights our senses, but it can also be analyzed and studied by fields such as philosophy and psychology.
Maybe before we ask ourselves who Annie Hall is, we should wonder how she was born. Initially, the love story between Alvy Singer and Annie Hall was part of another stage, which evolved into a film called Anedonia. Anhedonia is defined as the inability to feel pleasure, resulting in a feeling of permanent dissatisfaction. It is precisely anhedonia that manifests itself in Alvy Singer’s character.
This original idea didn’t seem to have much coherence, and it looked more like Allen’s inner monologue than the comedy we know today, after that, the stage took shape and the result is exceptional. Neurotic Groom, Nervous Bride is a character comedy, it is a comedy that observes reality and normalizes visits to a psychologist.
“Life is full of loneliness, misery, suffering, sadness and yet it ends too quickly. “Neurotic boyfriend, nervous girlfriend.
Now we can say: who is Annie Hall? Well, Annie Hall is nothing but Diane Keaton he he himself, Allen did not imagine fictional characters and did not look far as he drew his singular protagonists, he was inspired by himself and the woman who was his wife, Diane Keaton.
Keaton’s nickname as a child was Hall and, in her family context, is known as Annie. But it is not only in the name that we see similarities between the character and the performer, both have worked as singers in bars and we can also see the reflection of the romantic relationships of Allen and Keaton, as well as their subsequent breakup, this, in turn, invites us to reflect on contemporary relationships.
Neurotic boyfriend, nervous girlfriend has not only created trend in the field of cinema, but also in the fashion world, Keaton used to wear men’s clothing, such as loose pieces, ties, costumes, etc. This way of dressing has created a trend, broke standards and established a new fashion concept. It contrasted with women’s typical clothes in the film world, but gave the character a great personality. The result? A comedy with its own name and identity.
Can psychology and laughter go hand in hand?Much has been said about laughter throughout history, although at first comics were associated with the uneducated, while seriousness was linked to a high culture.
In ancient times, we see that laughter was portrayed by several authors, such as Democrites, Aristophanes and Hippocrates, authors like C-cero and Quintiliano have also dealt with the rhetoric of laughter, and there are rhetorical manuals that talk about jokes or types of laughter. laughter that can be used to capture the public’s attention.
Unsurprisingly, he is often associated with the figure of the madman or the madman, at first there was not much distinction between the two, the distinction will come mainly with Cervantes and Don Quixote, work in which two very different characters appear: the imbecile, Sancho, and the madman, Don Quixote.
During humanism stands out the figure of Laurent Joubert who, with his Treaty of Laughter, brings this question closer to psychology. From that moment on, we found several authors who theorized about the subject, such as Freud, Bergson and Koestler.
Bergson has collected a series of articles in a book entitled Laughter, and concludes that laughter is caused by the two-shot crash, while Koestler, in turn, goes further and says that laughter occurs because of what he called bissection, that is, a double association.
We also have studies that have deepened the knowledge about laughter from a very psychological point of view, in the case of Neurotic Boyfriend, Nervous Bride what we have is the association of contemporary psychological problems with the laughable, everyday situations are taken to the extreme, a multitude of narrative resources are used and the plot is broken to introduce known characters , like the philosopher Marshall McLuhan, and an anagnosing occurs with the character of Alvy Singer.
Alvy Singer is a comic book character who has a plettive of psychological problems, looks for a specialist, questions everything and analyzes things too much, Anagnarise is about providing a character with elements that give him recognition, in the case of Alvy Singer we feel that we are analyzing Woody Allen himself and even ourselves.
We laugh at ourselves, our phobias, the problems of a world in which we are not lacking, but we remain totally unhappy. Allen makes an excellent cinematic and humorous exercise, an exceptional work. The result is a gift for us, one of the best scripts in the history of cinema, in which psychology and laughter merge.
“When I was a student, I was taken out of school for cheating on the metaphysical exam. Have I looked into my classmate’s soul?-Neurotic Groom, Nervous Bride-“
Alvy Singer spends his whole life looking for happiness, but nothing brings him that feeling. Not even her love for Annie Hall, because she’s just looking for imperfections. Alvy Singer is the Pygmy of his time, who tries to make Annie his perfect wife.
Nowadays we associate happiness with possessions, be it a possession represented by a romantic relationship, a social status or material goods, we see that these relationships are sometimes not so perfect, that they are irrational and can drive us crazy.
In his fierce struggle to understand what happiness is and how to achieve it, Alvy asks a couple, who seem very happy, what is the key to achieving that happiness: this couple made up of two people who are actually made up of two people. He’s totally happy, but they don’t question anything, they don’t think and they’re totally empty and superficial, so Allen gives us one of his keys to happiness: not thinking too much and living in ignorance.
In a world as frantic as ours, there is no place for thought. Alvy represents neurotic urbanization with a totally pessimistic vision that is a parody of our contemporaneity, of ourselves. Neurotic Groom, Nervous Bride invites us to do an analysis, but also to laugh, to look at the world in a less serious or way. Otherwise, we could be the next Alvy Singer.
“A relationship is like a shark, it must progress continuously, if it doesn’t die. And I think what we have here is a dead shark?. – Neurotic boyfriend, Nervous bride-