This must be Woody Allen's most absurd and innovative movies of all. A human chameleon! How did he cook this thing up? You need to be out of your mind to think of something like this.
It is a mockumentary on life and times of Leonard Zelig, played by Woody Allen, a conformist to such level that he becomes and assumes the shape of his surroundings. In the company of blacks he becomes black, with greeks he becomes Greek etc. etc. Mia Farrow plays his Psychiatrist whom he falls in love with and so does she with him. Technically it is done so well with all the narration and live footage and with absolute dead pan that you actually believe that you are watching some documentary till of course you realize what exactly is being shown. The scene with Hitler is hilarious and really well done and makes you realize that Forest Gump was not the first movie to try this kind of thing.
It is a great satire, it is absurd and it is dead pan.
It is a mockumentary on life and times of Leonard Zelig, played by Woody Allen, a conformist to such level that he becomes and assumes the shape of his surroundings. In the company of blacks he becomes black, with greeks he becomes Greek etc. etc. Mia Farrow plays his Psychiatrist whom he falls in love with and so does she with him. Technically it is done so well with all the narration and live footage and with absolute dead pan that you actually believe that you are watching some documentary till of course you realize what exactly is being shown. The scene with Hitler is hilarious and really well done and makes you realize that Forest Gump was not the first movie to try this kind of thing.
It is a great satire, it is absurd and it is dead pan.