Midnight in Paris (2011)

It's been a while since I wrote a review on movies. I have no idea why this movie title caught my attention. Probably it sounds idealistically romantic or because it is Paris.

Paris, the city of love. Or so we have been brain washed to believe it is so. Everything seems to be less complicated and more romantic in this city.The Seine river, Effiel Tower, Louvre Museum, The Versaille and probably even those cafe at the street corner.
This movie had a long description at the start showing all the sights captured in the romantic city. It seems more like a documentary than a fictional story with all these images. There was so much time that I remember thinking "Why did this director forgot how tough and tiring to be in this city?" Those images are mainly focused on buildings, statues, arts and very little on the traffic, human or vehicles.
The main topic of this story was to remind many out there to stop and enjoy the present. Amongst all the appointments and the rush hours, the sights and sounds of the present can overwhelm and excite you. Yes in many ways, we always forgot about enjoying the taste on our palete, the birds chirping and even reminisce the historical buildings. We ought to stop worrying about the economic crisis and debtissue that is happening around the world and be contented for a while.
Haven't we heard all of these before? What's new? Many critics have given such a good review and many recommends you to go watch it. Even I do! This movie encompasses the withcery of "time travel". You're able to travel back in time to the age when you've always wished to live in. Some may think the 60s, 20s and may be all the way back to the Victorian era. It really depends on when is your "golden age". I mean how much more exhilarating can it get? To meet the idols and even be their inspiration for their masterpieces; ask and understand with them their concepts behind all their artworks.

However, in the movie, it seems like not everyone can understand Gil Pender's obession about the past. And they deemed that he is living in denial believing that the grass is always greener on that side. Is it true that constantly looking back at the past is the symptom that you cant cope with the present? He needed to be bestowed as someone that is lunatically traditional.

Ironically, it is because of all these knowledge, he is always speaking a fact. Yes, maybe because he does'nt look as confident as others but facts are facts. There's no changing. As his immediate family, they still does not trust him that steppingout of the comfort zone is the real him. Well, so much for love. And so much for being typical Americans. They've shown the busy-ness, the dislike for French but not the open mind and acceptance to the new ideas. Or it's because their open to new ideas they codn't accept that there'll be someone who's so amazed by the past?

Starring: Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates, Adrien Brody, Carla Bruni
Directed by: Woody Allen
Produced by: Javier Mendez (II), Letty Aronson, Stephen Tenenbaum
Yahoo! Movies Critis: B+
My review: B