Apartment Of Ricci And Biggs example essay topic

I found myself in the movie theater watching this movie in the middle of the week in the early evening. And not to anyone's real surprise my friend and I were the only people in the theater. We were able to act in a way that might not have been completely acceptable by any theater patrons. We laughed loudly at the jokes, sighed when it got romantic and danced to the credit music. We watched this movie light-heartedly and carefree, an experience we all should have the opportunity to take part in. The movie started out with Jason Biggs and Woody Allen on a park bench.

Biggs goes on to describe how he met Allen's character, Dobel. Through Biggs recounting the past we find out about the woman he was formerly with. How they were close to marriage but one night changed all of that forever. Biggs and his girlfriend met up with one of his old friends and they decided to double date. Biggs meets Christina Ricci's character. There is a chemistry between them and they find they have similar tastes in music and life in general.

An affair between the two ensues. Soon, however, they are forced to tell their significant others and they move in together. This brings us pretty much to the present. Later on the audience becomes familiar with Biggs' manager, played by Danny Devito, constantly trying to get him to resign their contract and Biggs and Ricci's dry spout.

The plot of this movie is rather involved. It jumps back and forth between the present and the past. It serves the purpose of always keeping the audience well engaged and questioning what is going to happen. The character development also receives an A+. Christina Ricci does a fabulous job as always. As well as Stockard Channing who plays her supporting role as Ricci's mother spectacularly and rather in depth for the size of the role.

The movie was set in New York and we got to see a good part of the city seeing as Biggs' character liked to walk to streets of New York when he was upset and he and Dobel enjoyed spending time in Central Park. The majority of the movie however was in the apartment of Ricci and Biggs which I thought did a marvelous job of capturing what an apartment would look like of people in that age range and financial status would have. The cinematography could have been better although the film had a higher standard to live up to in this spectrum being classified as a "Woody Allen Film". The editing, however, was top notch. This is visible due to the smoothness at which the film jumps from past to present and back again.

The soundtrack was a bit uninteresting even though it provided for some good dancing in the end credits. Other then that all songs are rather unmemorable. For the most part this film is just like the way in which I watched it. It's light-hearted and carefree. For some reason it leaves you with a feeling of nostalgia... even if you are only in high school.