Screening: Midnight in Paris

• Opening scene has great 'montage' (Eisenstein reference) maybe 4 minutes long.
• 'Golden Age thinking' people who have difficulty appreciating there own age desire to live in another.
• The Paul character is extremely pretentious and makes the viewer uncomfortable.
• The viewer relates to Gil's unhappiness with the situation about Paul and Inez.
• "No subject is terrible if the story is true." - Ernest Hemingway
• Gil is caught up in his own environment, but is continually drawn out of it by Inez and her friends and family. He doesn't seem to belong at all.
• Ernest Hemingway continually wants to fight.
• I would probably enjoy this film more if Owen Wilson wasn't the lead character.
• Gil meets: F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, T.S. Elliot, Gertrude Stein, Man Ray, Luis Buñuel, and more.
• Allen (director) is exploring the idea of unhappiness in one's time. It is exemplified by Gil's desire to live in the past, and also by Adriana.