Even the love story stops making sense—it’s a love story for people who don’t believe in love. Annie and Alvy come together, pull apart, come together, and then break up for good. The End. Their relationship was pointless all along, and entirely worthwhile. Ultimately Annie’s refrain of “la-di-da” is the governing spirit of the enterprise, the nonsense syllables that give joyous expression to Allen’s dime-store existentialism and the inevitability of the death of love. “La-di-da” means: nothing matters. It means: let’s have fun while we crash and burn. It means: our hearts are going to break,
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