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Phil is forever expecting, taking, or making calls, although we never see the stars to whom, or of whom, he chats not because he's a fraud but because the movie gods of that epoch were and remain, to anyone of Allen's vintage, beyond human reckoning, and certainly beyond impersonation.
Her epigraph -- taken from Maeterlinck's play "Pelleas et Melisande" -- forewarns us that we're in for something a little more complicated than crusading social fiction: "I have been watching you; you were there, unconcerned perhaps, but with the strange distraught air of someone forever expecting a great misfortune, in sunlight, in a beautiful garden".
It's the kind of story which exists in the past tense – a vivid childhood memory – and I was forever expecting a narrative voiceover from the grownup Ellis to come in, as if in an episode of TV's The Wonder Years, to tell us that after that summer, things would never be the same again.
Phil is forever expecting, taking, or making calls, although we never see the stars to whom, or of whom, he chats — not because he's a fraud but because the movie gods of that epoch were and remain, to anyone of Allen's vintage, beyond human reckoning, and certainly beyond impersonation.
We have been sucked in by one-dimensional storylines and misogynistic advertising hooks for years, taking the word of teen magazines as law, forever expecting cookie-cutter happy endings for cookie-cutter characters.
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