Liberals Hate Families

This is probably the darkest Woody Allen movie I’ve seen so far, which is funny because it’s not that different from his other films. It’s about how people in love are irrational and unreliable and emotionally dishonest, yet the way its conveyed is different. This isn’t gone about in the funny-but-actually-quite-sad way that Manhattan or Annie Hall is. It’s deliberately discomforting. Scenes that are normally framed with by one off jokes are now scenes of fighting and neurotic bickering. It’s difficult to watch life long relationships broken apart by bitterness when the characters are consumed by doubt, but it has to be accounted for. And if Woody Allen wants to hold a mirror to reality, this is a necessary film in his long filmography.