9) Every Woody Allen movie ever
Do we really need a new Woody Allen movie every year? That’s a bit of an existential question. Each year, and each Allen movie that accompanies it, comes with its own ups and downs. There are some good years, and some bad years, some Purple Rose of Cairo’s and some Hollywood Ending’s. But as with life, sometimes it’s the valleys that make the peaks even more special. Even if they aren’t pleasant to get through, the most difficult of trials teach us something about ourselves, and we emerge stronger and smarter than we did before.
The same goes for relationships. The sign of a good relationship doesn’t have to be its longevity, or any specific criterion, but can often be on the mere fact that we were able to take something from it, to learn something, and for the positivity of the experience to outweigh the downside. The fact that people keep going back to relationships, and for many of us, back to Woody’s films, is that they can’t help themselves—they come in all forms, and carry with them both good and bad, but at the end of the day, to quote a seminal line from Annie Hall, we need the eggs.