Directed and Written by : Woody Allen
Starring : Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone, Parker Posey
Release Date : July 17, 2015
Woody Allen films usually end up being either a serious dramatic work of great insight, or a lark of a project that's whimsical in it's ideas. "Irrational Man" is more the latter. This movie has a lot of scenes of two characters talking to each other, philosophizing about life. The story is also told via internal monologue from the two primary characters; which I thought was a weird directing choice.
The story starts off rather simple, and is about a bright and talented student who is highly infatuated with her philosophy professor who seems deep in despair. Both Emma Stone and Joaquin Phoenix are good in their roles respectively, although sometimes their dialogue sounds overly written. This is the part of the story that I found uninteresting, and uninspired.
However, once the story took a fantastically humorous but wicked turn in the plot, is when things started to actually get interesting. I suddenly wanted to see how the rest of the movie plays out, and it went from being a boring movie into something that's actually kinda fun to watch. It even went places I didn't think it would go, but I'm glad it did.
"Irrational Man" isn't exactly the most memorable Woody Allen movie, and may only really appeal to a particular audience, but it's at least not a horrible film. Unfortunately it's hard for me to point out who should watch this, because it would spoil the plot twist.
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