Yes, it has been difficult. My first impression and enjoyment of Allen's films was slight, if not indifferent. It wasn't until Annie Hall, that I had a renewed respect for him, as well as the effort to actually take him seriously. So Allen, old buddy, old pal, maybe this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship, and you certainly were a challenge to warm up to but thanks, even for your neurotic cynicism, your irksome habits, but most thanks are for your willingness to question the world around you, to question life as it is out of all, most important.
"Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts thems squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue."
Woody Allen's films are in a league of their own when it comes to comedy, because they rather do confront problems, specifically, the most pressing and distressing situations and questions in life that have the ability to make us lie awake at night with drowsy heads and resisting eyes, dwelling on that one question, that one doubt, as Allen's own fictional characters have done. There is a delicate, drapey consistency, like merigue, to some scenes of Allen's films, but they most commonly are fixated on a character's own trifling with their existence. Therefore, it is my opinion, that the viewer's capacity for digesting these issues is high as it glimpses into the human condition, and unfortunately, we are all human, we all suffer.
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