I know, it's odd that I watch Woody Allen movies, but even though, I am conservative and this film is very overtly anti-conservative and extremely liberal.

However, I still enjoy it despite the fact for several good reasons:

1. Few movies today have any hint of wit or satire on a level like Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris. In essence, he is satirizing what we have come to see in Time Travel genre stories, a desire to live better through the past, while ignoring our future and present. Another key point is the pedantic nature of scholarships and historical study, people who study history forget to live that history and see it in their own life.

On the topic of historical study, I would also like to make a differentiation between Woody Allen's conservative pedantic caricature, Paul, the liberally past minded Gil, and how I view history. History is a living tribute and a monument to everyone that has come before us and will come after us. As a lover of history and cultures, I can imagine myself in the past just like gil from time to time. As a history bachelor degree holder, I also somtimes have my Paul moments of scholarly historical knowledge explosions like a google search engine. Then, there is my final side, the science fiction writer, who dreams of the future with aliens, artificial intellignce, and the greatest times that are to come.

I think history should be viewed as all three perspectives, a living memory, a scholarly fact, and a cause for the creation of the future.

2. I really love the surrealistic twists and turns that the story takes with the character of Gil. There's also a sharp contrast to the staunch and stony character of Ernest Hemingway, who historically was a tragic realist in his writing. I can see in Woody Allen's plot a internal debate going on inside the mind of a writer: Should we focus on surreal elements that provide us with thought and insight or realism that provide perspective and social commentary.