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Comparing Woody Allen's Crimes And Misdemeanors '

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Woody Allen’s “Crimes and Misdemeanors” film, is a combination of two stories. The first story involves Judah, a wealthy ophthalmologist and family man, who has had a several-year affair with Dolores. Dolores threatens to go public regarding the affair and Judah’s shady financial dealings unless Judah leaves his wife. Judah calls on his brother to kill Dolores, which he does. The second story involves Cliff, a nerdy and unsuccessful documentary filmmaker, who is in an unhappy marriage. While working on a documentary about a TV personality named Lester, Cliff falls in love with Halley, a network producer. Halley rebuffs Cliff because he is married. When Cliff finally gets divorced, Halley has become engaged to Lester. Throughout both storylines …show more content…

Judah begins revisiting his religious upbringing once his conscience is filled with guilt after having his discontented mistress murdered. Once Judah realizes that he will go unpunished because of his social status and connections, his conscience launches him into a philosophical dilemma, in which he must question his faith and morality. Judah Rosenthal, who is a respected ophthalmologist and community leader. As Woody Allen 's "Crimes and Misdemeanors" begins, he is being honored at a banquet. He lives on three acres in Connecticut, drives a Jaguar, built a new wing on the hospital. During the course of the movie he will be responsible for the murder of a woman who loves him. She dies not because of his passion but for his convenience. Judah not only gets away with murder but even finds it possible, after a few months, to view the experience in a positive …show more content…

The Woody Allen scenes provide the kind of stand-up self-analysis and kvetching that his characters are famous for. But what happens in the Martin Landau scenes are as calmly shocking as anything Allen has ever done. In that imaginary conversation with the rabbi, Judah refers to his brother 's offer to "take care" of Dolores. "God is a luxury I can 't afford," he says. "Jack lives in the real world. You live in the kingdom of heaven." After Judah learns that Dolores has been killed, he visits Dolores ' apartment, sees that she is indeed dead, and takes her address book and other papers that might link him with her.
The characters are all gathered at a wedding a few months later. Cliff wanders off, shocked at seeing Halley with his enemy Lester. Cliff does not succeed in leaving his wife to marry a girl for whom he would be the worst possible partner, and the rich and triumphant Lester gets the girl and will possibly make her happy, or at least rich Judah finds him and begins a conversation with him. It turns on the idea of a perfect murder. Judah describes "a murder plot" to Cliff. It is the murder he has

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