You just blew my mind, man.

The other day I watched Woody Allen's latest film, Anything Else. It was widely panned as his failed attempt to reach a younger audience, but I think that was a marketing mistake rather than his actual intent. I was going to post about how I liked the movie a lot: lots of funny lines, good performances from Jason Biggs, Christina Ricci, and Stockard Channning (although Biggs and Ricci do hit some false notes, as does Channing literally when trying to sing), interesting camera work, and with some subtle things going on underneath the surface, including some structural and thematic oddities and the multiple meanings of the title. But then I read a thread on the IMDb message board that offered an alternate way of looking at the movie, and my head exploded.

( Spoilers! Seriously, if you have any interest in seeing this movie as it was intended to be seen, don't read this or follow that link above. )

Anyway, check it out, it's running on HBO for the next couple weeks.