Cannes .- US filmmaker Woody Allen presented his latest film Irrational man (An irrational man) in Cannes, which challenges the philosophy, “masturbation verbal “to explain human irrationality.
Joaquin Phoenix, who works for the first time with the New York filmmaker, Lucas plays Abe, a professor of philosophy without zest for life because the causes he has championed, from political activism to education, have come to nothing.
Shortly after arriving at a university, Lucas, which considers philosophy as “a verbal masturbation” begins two relationships, one with a colleague, Rita Richards (Parker Posey), trying to overcome a failed marriage and the other with his best student, Pollard Jill (Emma Stone), who becomes his friend and the voice of his conscience.
A conversation heard accidentally takes a surprising turn his life that restores the will to live and gives a goal to strive for.
“I think there are defining moments in life when you realize that things can change if you take one decision or another,” said Allen. But there are decisions which can weigh on the conscience as slabs and simply become a headlong rush.
Through references to philosophers who have tried to theorize about human behavior, as Kant, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard and Heidegger, Allen tries to unravel the complexities of the mind and the irrationality of some decisions.
Although issues such as human relationships, lies, justice, friendship, morality and ethics are part of your movie, An irrational man , which repeatedly I mention Spain to withdraw their “romance” recalls another of his works, Match Point .
“People need something to believe in and live for it,” said the filmmaker, who recalled that he had read somewhere that in the Nazi concentration camps, the best atrocities were exceeded “Communists because they believed in something fanatically”. “This is also true of religions,” he added.
His nihilism led him to respond to a reporter “Go explain to someone why worth living. There is a positive response to the harsh reality. The only certainty is that life has its own agenda in which sooner or later we will end up in a bad position. ”
“It’s going to disappear one day. Everything Shakespeare or Michelangelo did disappear one day,” reflected Allen off his latest muse, Emma Stone, and Parker Posey. “My conclusion is that the only way to survive is to distract you. I make movies to distract me, it’s a great distraction,” he admitted.
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