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 litte luck, it goes forward, and you win. Or maybe it doesn't, and you lose.
"Some people say: 'Good luck is more important than good intentions' is really a wise saying, because most people don't want their life to depend on luck, after all, there are too many things out of control, like playing tennis at the final point of the final game. , when you hit the tennis ball, the ball goes forward, you win, the ball goes backward, you lose!"
Stop trying to find the reason, you are just unfortunate.
"Match Point" is my top five Woody Allen movies, not only because of the movie itself, but also because of my personality and outlook on life. When I saw this movie, I just wanted to scream "Woody Allen I love you" or something, because the whole movie was like turning my concept into a good movie.
I like the song "Why does it always rain on me?" by the band Travis very much, because I always think that there are many things, hard work is useless, I blame myself for failing. My favorite Chinese singer, Lin Yilian, once said about her mother's death: "Her passing has finally made me understand that even if I try my best to be obsessed with things, it may not have the ending I want." Just like me As I said in the old article, I believe that the persistent Lin Yilian is finally freed now, but the price she paid was huge: the death of her father, the loss of her mother, and the failure of her marriage. Her persistence also attracted the comment of "intervening in other people's families by a third party". , and the marriage with Li Zongsheng, which she endured and fought desperately for at the time, was in vain in the end. She said, "Things that you try your best to stick to, may not have the ending you want" has always been engraved in my heart, and life has often helped me to confirm this truth, so I naturally became a "quitter", When I felt that it was unlikely to happen, I gradually gave up. Because "hard work" is tiring, and I can't beat luck.
之前第一次在飞机上看完「爱情决胜点」，给我的感觉是「像被人痛快地揍一顿」，各角色的结局，几乎完全是被「运气」决定的，无关人的好Bad or hard work or not, "Love Breaking Point" seems to help me roar out my outlook on life. Luck is everything, if you are lucky, even a bitch can be happy every day. When I am afraid of things, such as when the taxi driver drives like a roller coaster, I will comfort myself that if I am unlucky enough to sit quietly at home, I will die. There is nothing in life that I can control. In the end Everything will be lost, including your own life, so what are you afraid of?
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"Love Matching Point" is a description of a tennis coach Chris who wants to climb the ladder. He becomes friends with Tom, a wealthy kid, and has a chance to marry his sister Chloe. It can be said that his success is in sight. How do you know that Chris is being raped by Tom at this time Fiancée Nola is attracted, they decide to stop after an affair, Chris and Chloe later marry, but Tom dumps Nola. Later, Chris and Nola met again. After several cheatings, Nola became pregnant. Nola insisted on giving birth to a child, wanted to stay with Chris, and planned to tell Chris' wife Chloe by herself. As a result, Chris's future was in jeopardy, so He killed Nola. Will such behavior be brought to justice?
With the logic of Woody Allen's film, not necessarily. Depends on luck. In the film, Woody Allen gave Chris extreme luck. After killing Nola, he rose to the fore, and he and his wife successfully gave birth to a child. As for what Nola did wrong? Or did the unfortunate man who was wrongly convicted of being a murderer do something wrong [even if he died before being caught by the police]? Can't go wrong with Chris. So what?
Chris' narration at the beginning of the film best explains the concept: "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." Lose or win, it's all just luck. Really smart people don't want to be good people, they just want to be lucky people. Woody Allen also almost makes the audience look at the characters from the position of God, because there is no one character that I can particularly identify with or care about, so it adds to the feeling of "luck", "random arrangement", "God is just watching from the sidelines" , even makes people feel that life is nothing but a morbid joke of God. The real "love" in the film also doesn't exist, or it doesn't matter at all, because love or not has no effect on luck, nor does it help life at all. In short, even if Woody Allen wasn't on screen, I found this cynical, sour old man everywhere in the story.
This leads to another question: will the lucky Chris be happy in this life? I believe he will not be condemned by his conscience, but is it really happy to be with his wife for money and status? If you think about it carefully, the happiest person in the world is Chloe, Chris' wife. Her husband is a rotten person and a murderer. He cheated on her and killed his mistress and his unborn child. She, is the happiest person in the world, because she is too naive [or stupid] to find out the truth. As a result, happiness is not about encounters, but about being smart or not, and if you are happy, maybe you just don't know enough, or are really stupid. Woody Allen is left with a host of troubling questions, and for viewers who don't usually think about them, the film is more distressing than a horror movie. A similar theme, which Woody Allen had discussed in 1989's "Crimes and Misdemeanors," but with a comedic element that time, this time it was all serious drama, even more creepy.
When Woody Allen was interviewed about the reason for the birth of "Love Tie-Off Point", he said that he wanted to write a play about the parts of life that he couldn't control by himself, far beyond people's imagination. This outlook on life is terrifying, and many people's first reaction may be resistance, but I agree 100%. And "Love Points" pinpoints this perception.
After talking about Woody Allen's big question, let's go back to the movie itself.
"Love Game" is an anomaly from the Woody Allen films: it's set in London rather than New York, the film has absolutely no comedy or laughs, and there are lots of push shots [no longer just master shots and closes] -up collocation], Woody Allen himself did not act, and none of the characters spoke the way Woody Allen did.
The funniest character in the film is Chris. This role is played by Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, whose most impressive role among Taiwanese fans should be the handsome coach in "Bend It Like Beckham." Chris in the movie is a calm and rational character at critical moments. Originally a professional tennis player, he changed his career to become a coach because he understood that it was impossible to become a top player under his own conditions, but the coaching job gave him the opportunity to become a top player. Opportunity to meet rich people in high society; when he decides to marry rich daughter Chloe for money, he is calm, even when he is obsessed with Nola and has an affair, he is still calm and sober, and understands that a relationship with Nola can be sacrificed . He wanted to have both a sexual relationship with Nola and the lifestyle Chloe gave him, but when Nola asked Chris to divorce Chloe or she would tell Chloe herself, Chris wisely chose to kill him Nola.
Chris's wife, Chloe [Emily Mortimer], is the real happy person on the show, and that's because she's stupid. If she knew what her husband was like, she would understand how unfortunate she was, but her innocence and kindness made her never see the truth. At one dinner, she said "I don't believe in luck, I believe in hard work.". It's ironic, she is a person who never has to work or work hard: she doesn't need to worry about money, because her father has too much money; she doesn't need to work, she is a girl and has no responsibility for succession; she doesn't need to worry about finding a husband, she has such a family property How could she not get married, not to mention that she stayed so long that she couldn't see that the other party didn't love her. She thinks that luck is not important, but her naivety, blindness, wealth, etc. are all given by God, and none of them are obtained by her hard work, all of which are luck.
Nola's role is played by Scarlett Johansson. Nola and Chris are actually outsiders of British high society. After all, Nola is a very unsuccessful American actress. Chris is a poor boy raised in Ireland, so the two of them It should be relatively close in mood. In the first half of the movie, Nola was purely a fatally attractive woman, but when she and Chris began to have an affair, she turned into a clingy, accompany, and a woman who asked for a name, because the original advantage was comparable to Chris's. At present, she is at a disadvantage, because Chris is married, but she is the woman who has no two ends and no one wants. This situation worsened after she became pregnant, and it also led to murder for herself. There are many mistresses like her who want to be righteous, and many of them are still alive, but Nola has met Chris, who has ambitions beyond everything, and, if Chris is not so ambitious, in fact, Nola and Chris are a good match, they know each other. , which Chris' wife Chloe would never be able to do. In addition, the active Nola wants to become a successful actress, but she never does, but there is a more ironic arrangement in the film-Tom, who married another woman after dumping Nola, because his wife was pregnant and gave birth to a child. The nanny, the reason why the nanny left was to get the opportunity to make a movie. This is Nola's dream. Her beauty and sexiness should make this opportunity easy to come by. As a result, the nanny of Tom's family is luckier than her.
Chloe's brother Tom is played by Matthew Goode, but he doesn't have much room to play in this film. If you want to see him more, you can watch "Chasing Liberty", in which he and Mandy Moore plays opposite.
In addition, with regard to pregnancy, Woody Allen also raised the importance of luck to the highest point. After Chris got married, his wife's brother Tom was going to have a child, and his mother-in-law Eleanor wanted Chloe to have a baby all day long. Chloe took her temperature every day and regarded pregnancy as a kind of job, but Chris couldn't get Chloe pregnant. How do you know that Nola, Chris's outside mistress, is pregnant and insists on giving birth to the child. Interestingly, after Chris killed Nola, Chloe managed to get pregnant, and they had a seemingly happy ending. Where is life.
"Love tiebreaker" is a big surprise Woody Allen gave fans after he had no good works for several years in a row. What's interesting is that after so many years, he is so old and still has such a sour view of life. In the next article, I will sort out some of the sour things Woody Allen said, and share with you some of my favorites.
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