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Mighty Aphrodite，很可爱的小故事。看伍迪艾伦的片子不挑心情，emo时可看，无聊时亦可，像那种不远不近你又很欣赏的朋友。贯穿全片的古希腊部分诙谐又机灵，像夹叙夹议的小作文。拳击场里向肌肉男介绍琳达那场戏太好笑了，谎言织得流畅又饱满，哈哈哈。结尾闪出小小的火光，人生无奈中的一点暖，so，keep smiling，be happy again。

本片的结局极其戏剧化，有一种非常规关系下的温情之感，夹带命运的玄妙感。如果把这样一段关系放到现代社会中，肯定会被骂的狗血淋头。

其实，伍迪·艾伦的很多作品都无法用常规的道德标准来评价。包括他本人亦是如此，充满争议，2018年，他被养女迪兰·法罗控诉7岁时对其性侵和虐待。

曾经和他合作过的演员纷纷站队，表明了自己的立场。面对性侵的指控，伍迪·艾伦坚决否认，经过警察长时间的调查，最后的结果表示，并没有明确的证据显示伍迪实施过性侵，因此撤销了指控。

但由于如今他妻子的身份，还是不免让人怀疑。伍迪艾伦现在的妻子宋宜，就是他的养女之一。宋宜来自韩国，9岁被收为养女，她和伍迪艾伦相差35岁。

虽然之前两人的恋情就被伍迪艾伦前妻指责，但他还是和养女结婚了。两人的婚姻虽然不违反任何法律，但多少也会遭遇来自现实的白眼。伍迪艾伦本人被指控性侵后，也面临无演员可用的尴尬境地。

可以说，从伍迪艾伦本人的婚姻、爱情到他的作品，都可以用一句“抓马”来形容，也无法用普通的道德标准来评价。真·电影照进现实。

The habitus of Woody Allen’s MIGHTY APHRODITE couldn’t be more unsavory in the light of the current political and cultural ethos and the alleged accusation in which he is personally enmeshed, roughly taking its cue from PYGMALION, its story goes like this, after Lenny Weinrib (Allen), a middle-aged sportswriter, has found out that the biological mother of his adopted son Max (McQuaid), who is endowed with a higher IQ, is a bimbo prostitute and part-time porn star named Linda Ash (Sorvino), he tries every which way to persuade her to give up her profession and get settled down with an ideal man who loves her.

But Lenny’s action is anything but altruistic, he has his own face to save in case in future Max might want to know the truth of his parentage, a hairdresser of happy domesticity is what he aims for, although most of the fun derives from Lenny’s unresolved discombobulation about the genetic pedigree of Max’s genius, and gauging by Linda’s divulgence, the child might very likely be a “bad seed”, anyway, that is an excursus.

If Allen is often faulted for delusions of grandeur in his lesser works, MIGHT APHRODITE is guilty as charged, mostly for Lenny’s paternalistic attitude of playing God to save a ditzy sinful soul of the opposite sex, not to mention chiefly for his own sake, but courtesy to a corn-fed Sorvino’s zippy, down-to-earth unrestrainedness (an Oscar winner!, the Academy surely adores the stereotype of a call girl with a golden heart), Linda freshens up most comically and sympathetically for her unalloyed openness and genuineness in spite of being physically compromised in the morass of moral depravity, if Max does inherit any “good genes”, we can assure that is where they come from. In that regard, Allen’s homage to a woman’s incorruptible purity of immanent goodness is condescending, yes, but also amusingly touching.

Helena Bonham Carter, who plays Lenny’s two-timing curator wife Amanda, fares less agreeable in a mostly sidelined position, and it is rather difficult to dispel Allen’s prurient proclivity of the couple attaining a reconciliation only after both get their feet wet in adultery, a waters-muddying ploy that recoils on the movie’s intended feel-good aftertaste.

Surely one cannot finish the review without mentioning Allen’s hyperbolic conceit of orchestrating a Greek chorus to add some flourish, which bookends and punctuates the whole movie (often as a phantom manifestation), but the catch is, Lenny’s twee story is, to all intents and purposes, out of the proportion with such a majestic gesture. However, the movie's finale is a good one, instead of blowing the lid off the secret we audience is let on from the very start, appending a fresh one to counterpoint the quirk of fate is quite a cheery kicker.

referential entries: Allens’ HUSBANDS AND WIVES (1992, 7.3/10); George Cukor’s MY FAIRE LADY (1964, 7.8/10).