Melinda and Melinda

Life can be a comedy or a tragedy, it all depends on how you
look at it - life is in the eye of the beholder.

In the Woody Allen film MELINDA AND MELINDA, this concept
is explored when two New York playwrights (one writes
comedy, the other tragedy) sit in a Manhattan café
and discuss their views on a basic storyline: a woman
arrives unannounced at a dinner party. They expound on
their own versions. One takes the comedic route, the other
tragic, and thus the film takes off in two different directions.
The two stories are weaved through clever editing and
overlapping takes on how they differ on the shared storyline.

The comedy side has Amanda Peet and Will Ferrell as the
couple whose dinner party the unannounced woman, Melinda,
interrupts. The tragedy side has Chloë Sevigny and
Johnny Lee Miller as the couple.

The flawed real characters and the random unpredictability
of life mixing comedy with drama is reality squared. How
many times have you experienced something devastating
and laughed? Or what about seriousness in the face of
something funny? That is life. This movie illustrates
that beautifully.

Woody mixes the witty dialogue up so effortlessly, and
this movie is a joy to watch.

Rent this one if you feel in the mood to laugh and cry,
it's a terrific film.