Pick A Movie Philosophy Of Love: Annie Hall

Philosophy of Love: “Annie Hall”
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Philosophy of Love: “Annie Hall”
Humans are social beings, and throughout history, they have been drawn towards others. Sometimes they build permanent relationships that start with a friendship ends up in love and marriage. Sometimes marriages and friendships break up after they lose interest in one another. The question of the meaning and understanding of the true definition of love is still debatable from the philosophical point of view. People spend a better part of their lives in an intimate relationship only to end up as strangers after a while. The sad part in such cases is that most of the lovers may have committed and given everything to their partners, but they are disappointed when they find out later on that the person that they once trusted is not the one they wanted to spend the rest and the best of their life with. Plato puts this definition better in The Symposium (n.d., p. 55). He describes Socrates as a person that quickly falls in love with people, but when he opens up, he cannot be understood. People tend to trust the outward appearance of others until the time they learn the truth. The sad part is that truth comes later after a person has lost almost everything. Alvy Singer, the protagonist in the film Annie Hall is a character that depicts the real picture of how people that are dissatisfied in love leap from one partner to another.
When the film starts, the audience is introduced to Alvy Singer, the protagonist speaking to the camera and appears dissatisfied with love and life. His main concern is about his breakup with Annie Hall. He is deeply concerned that time is moving fast and he has not found a right partner, a person that he could have married and settled down with to raise a family. The audience is introduced to the flashback where Alvy kisses a classmate at the age of nine, and when he visits the doctor, he is advised to enjoy life when he is still young. The saddest part is that he is aging and he has not developed love and confidence in a single woman. The only person that he thought he would love and perhaps marry is now a stranger. When the story flashes back a year or two when the two were deeply in love, the audience sees the two in an intimate relationship to the point of making love and moving about together. The film director introduces Allison, the first wife of Alvy who happens to have broken up with Alvy. Allison is a foil character and is used to highlight the viewer to the behavior of Alvy. Throughout the film, one realizes that Alvy is always either interested in sex or using women. He is not ready for marriage, and this is the reason he loses his part...