Annie hall
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Annie Hall
In Woody Allen's Annie Hall, the film covers both Aristotle's theory on a play and the comedy criteria. This is a non-linear movie that has both high and low comedy. Woody Allen plays Alvy Singer and Diane Keaton plays Annie Hall. Throughout the film, Alvy tries to figure out why they both have become so different and why they don't get along as much as they use to.
Aristotle's six parts of a play include story, action, character, theme, music, and spectacle. The story has five parts and begins with the exposition. The exposition of Annie Hall is when Alvy Singer talks about how his relationship with Annie Hall did not work out. One of the things that he mentions in the beginning of the film is that horrible people are handicap and miserable people are everyone else. He is saying that everyone goes through life being miserable at one time or another and this was his time. The rising action of the movie is when he tells us how Annie and he met and how great they were together...