Obviously, Woody Allen plays the role of this god, and he wants to tell you through the movie "Match Point", what kind of crazy existence luck can be. The movie really struck me because, until five minutes before the end of the movie, I greatly underestimated Woody Allen's ambitions.
It's an atypical Woody Allen movie, with less than half the lines and less banter and wordplay than his normal movies. The plot is the most commendable. It can be said that it uses 99% of the clichés in the front to lead to the shocking ending of the last 1% (of course, the time distribution is not so accurate, and the latter may be 2%, in short, it is very short), the previous The more serious and standard the stereotype is, the more shocking and unexpected the ending will be. Although the film is concise and capable of nothing like the neurotic style of the little old man, we still feel the ordinary Woody Allen in this film, and even the purer and more vivid Woody Allen. That is, in order to think about a problem--maybe in the eyes of others, it is just a trivial problem or a problem that does not become a problem--everything that makes the audience interested, cared, or even believed in becomes a foreshadowing and a sacrifice.
——Desire, morality, justice, karma, all are defeated in the face of luck, it really makes people feel uneasy in the end.
The scary part of this movie is also its valuable part, that is, it forces (not gentle inspiration and inducement, but rude forcing) people to think: Is it true that some people's success depends on luck? Do some people have good luck all the time, while others have bad luck all the time? In real life, we always avoid this problem, we despise luck, we believe that three points are destined by nature, and seven points depend on hard work. Or, we believe in the fairness of luck, believe that the times come and go, and the bitterness will come; However, maybe we believe those things only because we want to believe them, and believing them can give us peace of mind, but those are not true.
Speaking of which, I am reminded of "The Ballad of the Drunken Country," which is a story of a loser from start to finish. There are several times in the film that people feel hope, but all are hallucinations without exception, and there are no accidents without exception. Until the end, no accident turned out to be the biggest accident of the whole film. The protagonist is not only unsuccessful, but also not tragic as a loser; that is to say, the Coen brothers not only disdain inspirational chicken soup, nor the sublime tragedy, they just want to uncover the absurd truth of life. The two films, one about complete success and the other about complete failure, are actually about the cruelty of luck, and they both come to the same goal.
Furthermore, you can also think carefully: for success, what is more important than luck? Yes, it is ambition (of course, ambition also has a nice saying called aggressiveness, but I don’t like it, I think it is just a whitewash for human self-beautification, it is not as close to the essence of nature as ambition). Ambition is also very important. In "Match Point", ambition and luck are always interdependent and cannot be separated. However, in life, no one has so little ambition, big or small. The film doesn't say: ambition is the foundation of success, ambition is the platform on which luck can be realized - that's a very low argument, and Woody Allen certainly disdains it. What this movie says is that only those who believe in luck and who are willing to hand over all the verdicts to luck can look at everything, give it a go, and go ahead with his ambitions.
Of course, I'm afraid there are many people who don't want to face what I said above after watching this movie. When the theater was exiting, I heard a gray-haired old lady next to her complain angrily to her companion: "This person will not have a good life, and he will be condemned by his conscience for the rest of his life!" Hearing this sentence, I silently praised the old lady in my heart.
Forget the old lady, come and listen to God, listen to Woody Allen's voice. The following is the equivalent of a voice-over line spoken by the director possessed by the male protagonist in the film, which is also the main theme of the whole film:
Hardwork is mandatory. But I think everybody is afraid to admit what a big part luck plays. Scientists are confirming more and more that all existence is here by blind chance. No purpose, no design. I think that faith is the path of least resistance .
View more about Match Point reviews
