Wonder Wheel (Woody Allen, 2017)

Wonder Wheel (Woody Allen, 2017) 




He has a girlfriend and maybe even plans to marry 













"The wonder wheel itself was interesting
the luck of the draw
the sense of events
this wonder wheel - wheel of fortune of life. 
where we happen upon good fortune or bad fortune.
That concept of the unknown of life, the fact that anything
can happen to a neurotic: a source of fear, a source of 
discomfort because they don't want life to be like that. 
They want life to be ordered and have some kind of meaning.
They try sometimes to enforce their own outlook, their erratic
outlook on it. "



Projections: Woody Allen - The Cinema of Neurosis. Seminar from the Freud Museum of London. Presenter: Mary Wild. Session 1 - Love, pt. 1Friday 30 April 2021










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