Purple Rose Of Cairo Film Essay

Anything can be possible in the movie. During the Great Depression countless Americans have to face the harsh economy. However, Cecilia(Mia Farrow) chooses to escape dreary live by watching glamorous movie in The Purple Rose of Cairo(dir. Woody Allen, 1985). She has an unpleasant marriage and hopes to have a romantic life in a big city with a romantic man - Tom(Jeff Daniels). As a result, she sees the film again and again. Surprisingly, the bravest and the most romantic character, Tom steps away from the screen and enters the real colored world. “Her dream about meeting an adventurous and romantic man comes into the reality.”
Cecilia faces a collision between the reality and the wonderful fictional world. In the scene, Cecilia has to choose between Tom who represents the fiction world and Gil(Jeff Daniels) who represents the real world. These shots make people critically self-reflexive about their relationship to movies: dreaming a wonderful life by escaping the laborious reality. Tom represents a fictional ideal to escape while Gil allows her to escape from a non motivated husband and back to Hollywood with him. Because her passion on Gil is not her true feeling, he betrays her which as an authentic outcome for those who choose
Gil offers Cecilia a romantic fantasy as a Hollywood actor. However, neither of them is totally real for her. Tom is fictional while Gil is acting like a real in order to let Tom back to the movie and abandons her at the end. Gil success because he is a excellent actor acting a man in love while Tom is a man who actually in love with Cecilia. “Cecilia discovers that when she chooses reality over fiction, she loses all hope of finding reliable happiness.” What the movie wants to tell the spectators is that they cannot follow their illusion reckless, but also awear to face the cruelty of the