Carrie: A Jewish Male Reincarnation

lj-tags: New York City, Television, Movies

Just finished watching Annie Hall for the evening -- my companion as
I finished my essays for a UCLA writing program application. It has
been years since i've seen this and its portrayal of New Yorkers and
their relationships seems fresh and relevant. I suspect many of my
readers would snub Woody Allen the same way they snub Sex in the
City, which mad me wonder if Carrie from Sex in the City is a modern
reincarnation of Woody Allen -- a writer trying to find love in a
dysfunctional society. Even the style, particularly in the earlier
episodes with the man on the street interviews about relationships,
is reminiscent of this classic film. The celebration of sex, above
all, is primary.

"Don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone I love."

Spoken by Woody Allen, could have been a line from Samantha or
Miranda thirty years later.

Any of the 'she's not Annie' dates with shallow and glib New York
women mirror the string of dates our four favorite ladies endured
over the six seasons before finding lasting love.

Perhaps Annie Hall is more realistic with its inconclusive ending.
Annie and Alvy part ways, still friends, but not together. Though
there is that possibility. And even the succinct pearl of
relationship wisdom at the end "I guess we keep going through it
because most of need the eggs."

And, of course, the is the ultimate love of both Alvy and Carrie (and
me): New York City.