Midnight in Paris Literary Analysis
Midnight in Paris As humans, people are not looking for more technology and advancements; they look for longing and time. People live life searching for their place and most people believe they cannot find it in the time they are in. No matter what era a person is from they will never think that their era is the greatest time in the world. Some people believe they should be from a time before their own; this is called nostalgia, which is the theme to the move Midnight in Paris.
People look for flaws in things around them. Gil, the main character, is a screenwriter trying to write a novel, so he sees everything in a deep perspective and looks for every flaw possible. He believes he is out of place. He thinks his life would be better if he were born in the time of 1920s in Paris of the artistic and literary renaissance.
Many people talk about how they feel they were born at the wrong time, for whatever reason. They feel that what talents they have would be better resembled and appreciated, or their outlook on how to live was more acceptable in the past. The only reason that people believe that decades in the past are better than the one they live in because of how these past decades are portrayed in movies or even songs.
In the film, Gil and his fiancée, Inez, are visiting Paris with her parents. They find their impending marriage is doomed when Gil finds himself in some sort of time-travel to 1920s Paris. Inez is the total opposite of Gil, so their marriage was doomed before Gil started going to the past. Gil liked walking through the rain, Inez hated getting wet. Inez liked to spend to time with her know-it-all friends, Gil liked to be alone and walk to find inspiration.
Everything he had dreamed about the 1920s happened to him while he was there. He fell in love, got to dance to his favorite singers, and got to meet some of his idols like, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, Gertrude Stein, and Ernest Hemingway. Gertrude Stein even helped him make his
People look for flaws in things around them. Gil, the main character, is a screenwriter trying to write a novel, so he sees everything in a deep perspective and looks for every flaw possible. He believes he is out of place. He thinks his life would be better if he were born in the time of 1920s in Paris of the artistic and literary renaissance.
Many people talk about how they feel they were born at the wrong time, for whatever reason. They feel that what talents they have would be better resembled and appreciated, or their outlook on how to live was more acceptable in the past. The only reason that people believe that decades in the past are better than the one they live in because of how these past decades are portrayed in movies or even songs.
In the film, Gil and his fiancée, Inez, are visiting Paris with her parents. They find their impending marriage is doomed when Gil finds himself in some sort of time-travel to 1920s Paris. Inez is the total opposite of Gil, so their marriage was doomed before Gil started going to the past. Gil liked walking through the rain, Inez hated getting wet. Inez liked to spend to time with her know-it-all friends, Gil liked to be alone and walk to find inspiration.
Everything he had dreamed about the 1920s happened to him while he was there. He fell in love, got to dance to his favorite singers, and got to meet some of his idols like, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, Gertrude Stein, and Ernest Hemingway. Gertrude Stein even helped him make his
Cited: Midnight in Paris. Dir. Woody Allen. 2011. Sony pictures Home Entertainment, 2012. DVD