“Give it a week, give it an hour, you’ll be back.”
The Purple Rose of Cairo, 1985
Her husband yells this to her out the door as she leaves him, but it may as well apply to the cinema - as Allen interprets it.
It’s all a post-modern gag for him — “look! he walked out of the picture!”
Film as escape, not confrontation. Not a confirmation of life, but a reprieve from it.
