Woody Allen is an amazing director and he only seems to get better. I mean, love him or hate him as a person, actor, or man, he is truly an amazing director. Rarely have I seen such a film, render perfectly the complexities that a truly great novel can offer. It seems a difficult task to portray the deep emotions, feelings and inner torture of characters onto the big screen. Match Point mirrored Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment" in so many ways it was glaring, but still managed to be monumental in strength as a screenplay on it's own.
"The man who said 'I'd rather be lucky than good' saw deeply into life. People are afraid to face how great a part of life is dependent on luck. It's scary to think so much is out of one's control. There are moments in a match when the ball hits the top of the net and for a split second it can either go forward or fall back. With a little luck it goes forward and you win. Or maybe it doesn't and you lose...
Match Point is a drama about ambition and obsession, the seduction of wealth, and the often discordant relationship between love and sexual passion. Perhaps most importantly, however, the story reveals the huge part luck plays in the events of our lives, refuting the comforting misconception that more of life is under our control than really is. (Dream Works Pictures)
Watch it soon, then complain to me about my poor review and differ in opinion from me, perhaps.
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