Luck matters, so what?

Adelbert 2022-03-19 09:01:03


Woody Allen's work in 2005 did not look good.

All the characters are very cliche, rich, empty and unattractive wives, sexy and mysterious lovers, and little white faces who borrowed from the wife's superior. The plot is also very old-fashioned 70% of the time, like using pregnancy to blackmail a man into a divorce or something. Until the end, the man was so disturbed that he decided to end the predicament of being attacked on both sides by his wife who wanted to get pregnant every day and his lover who forced him to divorce every day. He loaded up a shotgun and ran to his lover's apartment to kill her neighbor's old woman. And disguised the scene of the robbery, and then came out to shoot the lover who went home on the scheduled time, and the plot began to be unexpected. As he wished, the police believed that this was a case of a drug addict who broke into a house and robbed his life, and then shot and killed the unlucky person who ran into it after he came out. However, the lover's diary is full of their exchanges, and what is even worse is that when the man destroyed the stolen property, the last ring failed to be thrown into the river, but bounced back from the railing by the river. . . .

The lover's diary brought him into the police eye, the perfect motive. One sheriff even dreamed of the truth while dreaming. But when the sheriff told his colleagues about his speculation in the morning, he learned that a similar burglary had occurred and the murderer had been arrested. "But did he admit that he did the previous incident?" "He didn't need it, the ring was in his pocket."

So, the twists and turns, and the man was able to get away with impunity again.

At the end of the film, the child of the male protagonist and his wife was born, and his uncle said: I don't wish he's great, I just hope he's really lucky. This lucky theme is also the central meaning of the voice over at the beginning of the film.

So what? It

took a long time, that is to say, luck is the most important. This is true, but, what do you need to say?

It turns out that life is meaningless, morality, ability, ideal, beauty. . . You think it's these things that decide your life, but the real decider is just luck. How ironic, how vain. --Oh, it took a long time for the very smart Woody Allenjiushi to say this. But this kind of perception of life seems to have been replayed in my mind several times when I was in high school. I knew I wasn't one percent as smart as Woody Allen, so I tried to find something else. Just like Annie Hall, what a rich film, endless wisdom, subtle touches on the soul, mixed feelings. . . Why are they all gone here?


I don't think there's anything more pretentious than Match Point (just after I said this, I thought of Spike Lee's 25th Hour, and the pretentiousness really has a fight). The whole movie is trendy. It looks like I'm so smart and profound. You see how cool and humorous I am, but I think it's only a little clever, not profound, cool and childish, and humorous and embarrassing. Especially the opera is always used as the background sound, I know he wants an ironic feel, but it is really irritating, it almost drives me crazy.

In fact, I still like Woody Allen very much, but I really don't like Match Point.



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Extended Reading
  • Amy 2022-03-24 09:01:29

    Procrastination! Why don't you just watch the last 20 minutes...it's such a boring movie...

  • Kelsie 2021-10-22 14:40:17

    Giant annoying actor, I mean looks

Match Point quotes

  • Tom Hewett: Chlo-Chlo, do you wanna have a knock with Chris for a bit? It's just that it's 5:00 somewhere, darling, and I've some serious cocktails to start making. Irish! Have you ever had a Cuba libre or a caipirinha?

    Chloe Hewett Wilton: It'd be really boring for Chris to play with me on my own.

    Tom Hewett: It's really boring for him to play with me, but he's a good sport. And anyway, you've got better legs than I've got. Chop-chop.

  • Chloe Hewett Wilton: I'm so bad.

    Christopher "Chris" Wilton: That's how you get better. Playing with a stronger player. Come on.