... is no special lighting: they are taken as from a moving car on a bumpy road. The effect of these things is that a strong impression is given of New York as a fast moving place, where, however, ordinary people lead their ordinary lives. The man in the car, for example, seems to be on his way home from work. The fact that he may work as a gangster, or in some ... of New York they are currently being told about by the narrator. The narrator, Woody Allen as a writer, is clearly a diegetic character. He narrates the opening sequence as a monologue, covering various aspects of the city in the...

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