Woody Allen - Zelig (1983)
ZELIG
WAS
Filmed as if a documentary set in the United States of America during the '20s, this film focuses on the history of Leonard Zelig, the human chameleon, who turns everyone he meets.
Zelig is the 'man who has the courage to be himself
, which robs it of its identity to assume that of others. Here then
slave of his popularity because of its special skills, human case, the object of attention by scholars of medicine and marketing, opportunity to make money. His figure out of all proportion to the power of merchandising products inspired by him. Only Dr. Eudora Fletcher treat it as a human being and not as a freak.
But why does this Zelig, turning into every person he meets? For lack of love?
"My brother beat me, beat my brother, my sister, and together they beat me, my family hit me, the neighbors were beating my family together and beat me, beat me the whole block?" afraid it's a shame not to have ever read Moby Dick, as did everyone else?
Or is the society that rejects the Zelig different and therefore can not give in to conformity? And when Zelig seems to be cured of his "illness", the company does not make a fault, makes you pay? "Zelig has sold the story of his life Hollywood for a large sum of money. When the scandal broke out the producers ask the money back. Zelig can return only half, the rest has already been spent. Offesissimi,'s giving new back only half of his life. They hold the best times and he still only at mealtimes and sleep. "
It is not his failure to revive the public, to rehabilitate him in the eyes of society, through the passage on 'the Atlantic aboard a biplane?
A little' Zelig is all of us in our fears ancestral to follow blindly the mass, in our effort of having to please others.
To enter, not to create problems and not be out of trouble,
do not abandon our ego often dangerously? On guard, then! Here is the moral teaching, the message of this film:
must have the courage to make their own choices.
OTHERWISE YOU ROBOT or lizards.
A confession?
: Me too, dear Zelig, I have never read Moby Dick.