I guess I'm still deciding what's this movie's deal. It utterly depends upon dialog but also nothing said by any character has any real meaning. Like it's just blather filling up every scene and no one is likable. Woody Allen put forward a considerable amount of effort into the dialog so it's curious to me how unnecessary every word is, so now I gotta wonder if he did it on purpose, put in all that useless blather and then repeatedly save each scene with the cinematography. Because Manhattan is a beautiful movie, had it been shot in color it wouldn't have harmed the film a hair regardless of what the black and white lobby might suggest. The city was sanctified by the cinematography or at least is was shot to seem that way.
Review of Manhattan
