The Purple Rose of Cairo

The Purple Rose of Cairo started out slow and not comedic as Joe had warned us.  I wasn’t sure why Woody Allen would have chosen to do this, however, as the themes of the movie started coming through.  I believe the purpose was to make the movie feel like you were actually getting the mood of the Great Depression.  Without inputting laughter or a cheerful bidding really increases the mood of depression and sorrow.   But then as the story continues,  more humor starts coming out and a bunch of it seemed to be situational humor, for instance just the time when Tom tries to pay, he tries to use prop money and they have to flee the scene.  The movie I believe is both plot driven and character driven.  This is because the plot is only occurring because of how the characters have changed the sequence of events .  I feel like this movie was very original and the idea was very fresh in the fact that the movie that the characters were watching in the movie was titled the same as the movie we were watching but each one had very different plots.  The character from the fictional movie, Tom, actually comes out of the screen and interacts with characters of our movie.  I found this extremely funny when the character in our movie that played Tom meets him on the streets their interaction is very intriguing.   Also the way that the color of the fictional movie was black and white, but as he enters the world of the movie he becomes a normally colored person, who can only be noticed he is out of place is that his wardrobe is out of place.   This is also peculiar because it took a character from a black and white movie to bring color and vibrancy to Cecilia’s boring, mundane life.  Overall, I feel like this is a very original movie and has a fantastic story and I would recommend it to anyone except other movies.   If they were informed that they can leave their movie, we would have a number of characters I’m not sure our world could handle.