2 years after Annie Hall, Woody Allen’s Manhattan is a good deal more conventional. The opening narration quickly establishing it as a subjective love letter to New York, it emerges as another examination of Allen’s relationships. His character Isaac feels, however, more autobiographical than Alvy Singer. The setup is an obvious influence to Scott Pilgrim vs the World as he negotiates between his (very) young girlfriend and an emerging relationship with Diane Keaton’s Mary (playing with audience expectation) – ultimately a well-observed portrayal of love’s cruelness.