“I would never want to belong to any club that would have someone like me for a member,” quips Alvy “Max” Singer, paraphrasing either Groucho Marx or Freud’s Wit and Its Relation To The Unconscious in the opening monologue of Annie Hall, and setting the psychoanalytic mood and sense of wry self-loathing that is pervasive throughout the film’s entirety. Stand-up comic Alvy, played by Woody Allen himself in a clear act of self-parody, embarks upon a…
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