Deconstructing Harry - 5

All of Allen's films deal in some way with philosophical issues of happiness, despair, meaning, God, love, etc. This film is no exception and is probably the most transparent and easiest to follow. Harry, the main character, is an author who is trying to relate his life story to the characters that he has written and vice versa. He is married more times than seems possible and all of his friend dislike him for basing his stories on their lives. His written characters start to show up and then explain his life to him, which inspires him to write more. It uses a lot of psychological terms to explain things, a lot of analysis of the subconscious and pill-popping. It is interesting how Allen always stresses the atheism of his characters while showing that meaning can only happen with belief in God, and some unifying theory of existence even amid the chaos of life and behavior. For him the rejection of meaning is true atheism.