After the Golden Age of Hollywood had taken its last bow, after the age where the likes of epic movie-making and classic-targeted masterpiece, there came a film that was so refreshing and delightfully thought of that it became the only romantic comedy film in history to have won an Oscar Best Picture. It was Annie Hall.
It is a funny film, indeed, and probably Woody Allen's heartfelt masterpiece. When you thought that you had become bored with some lines, by the time that you wanted to stand up from your seat, you'd be glued back again by a persistent one-liner. This is what Annie Hall's about, a film that filled with one-liners, yet ultimately raw, endearing, unflaggingly honest, quotable and at the same time remarkable. It's a wondefully written film, and Woody Allen had penned something that's not for the rubbish bin, but for the Oscar podium. What makes this film strong apart from its dialogues was it characters; both Annie Hall (played by Diane Keaton in her subtle performance) and Alvy Singer (performed by Woody Allen himself) are the major characters of the film and they were carefully constructed, bringing out their flaws, their ideas and their spirits to the life of the film. It's pitch-perfect for everyone who's in the struggle for relationships, and even though how wordy and dialogue-ridden this film could get, one-liners had never felt so awesome to listen to. In his verbal game, Alvy Singer was so in love by the girl she met in a tennis court named Annie Hall and for over a period of time, as they both shared ideas of apparently almost all kind of things, and having been argued and talked a lot, they discovered an unlikely connection between them, yet also a stiking difference of their beliefs. It is a story of both finding love and battling the loss. Maybe it isn't a film for everybody, especially those who get easily bored with "talks", but I could tell for sure that this is a film of ideas and Allen had constructed it in a very realistic point of view, in the eyes of a jokester who wanted life to be a journey of love and lessons.
This is a great film, one of the gems that we considered striking and lustrous. Annie Hall was indeed a story of a man's tragedy over a girl, yet Woody Allen had made it look like a priceless triumph of screenwriting.

Rating: A-