I have never been a fan of Woody Allen movies ... until now!

I am finally a fan of Woody Allen and all it took was for me to watch a 1977 movie instead of his recent stuff instead, go figure!

Going back to the Empire top 500 movies of all time, I decided to watch Annie Hall and it was one of the best movie selections I have ever made. I was recently in Malta for a four-day holiday and was browsing the web for some in flight entertainment for my trip back to Dublin. After some time deliberating with my boyfriend Conor, we decided to watch Annie Hall.

Whilst watching this movie all I could think about was how electrifying the chemistry between Woody Allen and Diane Keaton was. This was quite a shock for me since I normally dislike anything Diane Keaton stars in, in my opinion she was the only thing wrong with the Godfather franchise!

The second impressive noticeable feature with this film was the dialogue. This movie kept me glued to the screen from the moment it started and I feel this was mostly due to the writing, this film has to be one of the best written movies I have ever seen. Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman truly struck Gold when they decided to write this movie together!  One of my favourite quotes from the movie is when Alvy defines life as "divided into the horrible and the miserable" He further explains this by saying:

“That's the two categories. The horrible are like, I don't know, terminal cases, you know, and blind people, crippled. I don't know how they get through life. It's amazing to me. And the miserable is everyone else. So you should be thankful that you're miserable, because that's very lucky, to be miserable.”

I found myself falling for Alvy Singer, ever though all he did was complain about life and obsess about death or anything relating to death. Annie Hall on the other end transforms into a strong confident individual, and although she was more of the sweet optimist, her success was mainly due to Alvy. All through the movie I was rooting for this couple to succeed, to drive away into the sunset and live happily ever after, unfortunately this relationship was not destined to thrive, but was doomed from the start.

I was on the fence about whether this ending was the right choice but the more time I thought about it the more I realised it had to end this way. They were two different for one another and wanted different things, besides being more realistic I feel the ending was in itself more romantic too as you knew they would always love one another and be there when it matters.

If you haven't yet watched this movie I definitely recommend that you do so. I myself may even try to give Woody Allen's other movies another shot, so yes it impressed me that much!!

It only seems fair to end this blog post with a Woody Allen joke from this same movie! Until next time everyone:

"A guy walks into a psychiatrist's office and says, hey doc, my brother's crazy! He thinks he's a chicken. Then the doc says, why don't you turn him in? Then the guy says, I would but I need the eggs. I guess that's how I feel about relationships. They're totally crazy, irrational, and absurd, but we keep going through it because we need the eggs.”