FADING GIGOLO

Love the saxophone and the jazz music at the beginning of the movie it gives the movie such a vintage feel.

Personally I do not like Woody Allen. Well you can I don’t get the comedy that he portrays so I can’t relate to his movies. But this movie seemed to me different may be because of its name or may be because of its story.

The story revolves around a middle aged man who used to work in a book store but the owner decides to close the shop. This owner is a good friend of the man and he pursues him to become a gigolo to make some lady happy. Things turn into something else and the story starts to boil up.

Life is all about unexpected series of events which slowly molds your entire future. So this virtual guy loses his job and somehow manages to become the sexiest gigolo in town. But then of course he falls in love with a damsel in distress and he becomes the knight in the shining armor and brings the best out of this damsel. To his dismay the damsel only takes this as a service and not as real affection and she actually confesses her sins and happily goes away with the policeman.

Now where does woody allen comes in the picture. Well he is the pimp and he creates his own magic with the witty dialogues that he delivers. He makes dirty jokes with his clients but when he cracks a joke it’s simply lovely.

I personally do not see a proper dimension in the movie. Because the aspect of turning into a gigolo is vague and somewhat unnecessary for me. Yes, it’s true that as he was a gigolo you can watch a few steamy scene in the movie but then again I don’t find them as relevant as I thought it would be.

I am not ashamed of calling myself dumb but seriously I don’t get the Allen movies. Why I liked this particular movie is firstly because of its name secondly because of its protagonist (he is surely a man ;) and you know what I am talking about) thirdly for the jokes that Woody Allen cracks (only those which I could understand) and lastly for the foreign language (I believe it was French) which was used in a poetic manner here and there in the movie. These things were lovely.

In totality I won’t say you must watch it but not a bad movie. If you are a movie buff like me definitely your time won’t be wasted watching it.

Thanks for reading.