Social satire starring Woody Allen as a neurotic New Yorker who is frustrated by not being taken seriously by his politically active girlfriend (Louise Lasser) and thus travels to a troubled South America dictatorship to join a revolution. Allen uses an absurd, frenetic style in which styles of dialogue and conventions from films and television are intentionally mixed and juxtaposed to spray satire in every direction and expose the essential ridiculous nature of everyone and everything. Its a work of pure genius with allusions to Eisenstein and the Marx Brothers, as well as to Wide Wide World of Sports, but one can understand the frustration of some viewers with the apparently disconnected narrative.
