Midnight in Paris

After watching the movie Midnight in Paris, I understand why we were required to watch this film. The movie is about a struggling writer who goes to Paris with his fiance and her parents to relax on a nice vacation. On the first night however they went wine tasting with some friends and Gil the main character decides to wander around Paris by himself. Consequently he gets lost and an old car from the twenties appears before him with all of its passengers urging him to join them. He proceeds to do so and he is meet upon the company of the two Fitzgeralds and Ernest Hemingway. He is amazed that he has found these people because they were around in the 1920's and he of course is not. He spends the evening with them and even gets Hemingway to offer to send Gil's novel to see Gertrude Stein for corrections.
When he leaves their company he comes back upon reality and believes he was merely drunk. He makes up a story for his fiance to believe and he proceeds to attempt to go back to this time in the 20's to continue his journey. Now when he goes back, Gertrude has given him ideas for his novel and he meets a lovely mistress whom he ventures through the twenties with. He continues to do this every night, escaping reality and venturing into the past. He meets famous artists as well such as Salvador Dali and Gil is in a near bliss state in the past.
In the present things are not going smoothly. His fiance is sick of his midnight strolling and why he doesn't spend time with her anymore. His soon to be father in law even tries to follow him using a private detective. This does not work at all because the detective ends up missing from the present.
In the end of this movie, Gil decides to stay in Paris and leave his fiance. He then meets the woman from the music stand and they walk in the rain to end the movie. Personally I found this movie very confusing to follow because things in the past and present would happen when he changes time. The time flow still progressed and he did not enter the same part when he returned as when he left. I also did not catch at all how they ended up in the 1890's. This just seemed completely random to me. Also he continued to tell people that he was from the future and no one ever question him or called him crazy. They merely accepted it.