“Irrational man”: philosophical thriller with a love triangle – RBC

  Perhaps Woody Allen bored young people who do not drink whiskey at lunchtime and in the 20 years already faithful partner. If trying to summarize 45 films patriarch made his film debut half a century ago in the “What’s new, pussycat?” Along with the stars very different era – Peter Sellers, Peter O’Toole, Romy Schneider and Kapusin, then they can be reduced to the idea that life chaotic, meaningless and absurd: there is no positive or negative consequences of your actions, because any accident would violate their logical chain. Generally speaking, if you are in the morning, as the protagonist of “irrational person,” teacher of philosophy Abe Lucas (rastolstevshie Joaquin Phoenix), drink whiskey, this does not mean that you necessarily will die from cirrhosis of the liver. And if you drink besides driving, there is no one hundred percent probability that you will die in a terrible car accident. That is, the chances increase, but one hundred percent no one will. But you can get a fine, because the state, the police and the public live by different rules.

 

 

  At first it seems that Allen took another comedy about inter-generational novel – Phoenix 40, his student Jill (played in the second film directed by Emma Stone has replaced its previous muse Scarlett Johansson), a little over 20. Around the teacher, however, as the eagle circling colleague Rita (Parker Posey), an unhappy marriage gossip, who knows that the way to a man’s heart is through a bottle of whiskey. But sex does not please Abe. On the contrary, the blows of fate (vypivshaya bleach mother suicide, each hit a mine, a lot of alcohol) made him impotent. An urgent need to regain his mojo, and women do not help. It is time to Abe Gill overheard in the diner one unfortunate complaint, which the judge has selected children because friends with her ex-husband. Abe comes up with an idea that could only come from the read Kant, Kierkegaard and Dostoevsky to commit the perfect murder, to spare the victim from the vile judge, to make the world just a little better.

 

 

  So comedy about a love triangle, one side of which smacks of hazing a teacher with a student, and therefore, the scandal turns into a detective with the killer – the main positive hero, but Allen would not be a, if not brought under storyline adapted morality of philosophical works, he read in his youth, as soon as the dream of a better world is faced with the reality of mundane and beloved begins to suspect about who killed the judge, airy-fairy professor involuntarily forced to embark on a criminal path again – one attempt leads to another and so indefinitely until the case does not intervene and put an end to his suffering. Perhaps innocent students with wide-eyed admiration and resist the charm of European philosophy, but only until it is convenient to them. Therefore, should we assume that Allen, who dedicates every movie favorite writer or philosopher of youth (in the previous films, “Jasmine” and “Magic in the Moonlight” it was Tennessee Williams and George Bernard Shaw) should annoy the modern youth – instead of being delighted to share a favorite of the ideal of the perfect murder, the student will run to the police.