Annie Hall

On all fronts, Annie Hall is a brilliant film. The dialogue is genius to the point of frequent hilarity, and the varying techniques used to convey different aspects of Alvy's personality are very well incorporated. I'd like to touch on the film's point of view. Although the film is shot objectively, with us observing the events, there seems to be something slightly off about the characters and settings. This effect is heightened by Woody Allen's writing. In my opinion, this is done to show that everything, although objective, is from Alvy Singer's point of view. Because of his paranoia and seemingly manic depressive nature, everything seems a bit exaggerated and particularly unjust or unfair to Alvy. For example, he always judges people as stereotypes of one kind or another. For example, to Alvy (and the audience), everyone in California seems to be a pretentious, artistic, phony. Annie's family appears to him as something out of a Norman Rockwell painting, as he comments in the film. We can also look at scenes like Alvy's conversation with Duane. Perhaps Duane wasn't really sitting in the corner of his dark room, and perhaps he didn't describe his dark fantasies in such grim detail. Perhaps this is just how Alvy saw it. His paranoia of course, is brought out in the true events of the film, such as his accusations of anti-semitism (one of which is right).
Do you think Woody Allen intended all of this?