Match Point
February 23, 2007
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How much of life is luck, and how much is lust thinly disguised as love? That’s one of the many questions director Woody Allen puts to the audience in his 2006 release that premiered at the Cannes Film Festival last year. “Match Point” may look like the eternal triangle turned into a foursome, but it is far from being the simplistic story of boy meets girl, other girl wants boy, what should he do?
Chris Wilton, a former tennis pro now working as an instructor, gets lucky when he takes on new students Tom and Chloe Hewett, offspring of a wealthy and indulgent London family. Much to the surprise of Tom, there is more to Chris than being a sports jock, including a love of opera. Soon, he is joining the family in their box at the theatre, where Chloe is drawn closer by a desire that has little effect on Chris.
The tennis pro is much more interested in the sizzling actress wanna-be that Tom is engaged to, over the protests of the family. Can he overcome his lust for his new friend’s fiance and do what is right? Or is his marriage to Chloe doomed from the start, by the deeper, darker desires that keep him playing a dangerous game from inside the family?
Luck runs deep, but it only goes so far. When it runs out, Scotland Yard is there to find out how Wilton’s relationships with both women, ended up at Match Point.
In the end, the movie really is quite sad. I don’t know what other word to use to describe it. As is said in the movie, “Some people get all the luck.” Even when they don’t deserve it. It’s definitely a movie worth seeing, though. Some of the dialogue is awkward and strange, but I think that’s characteristic of a Woody Allen flick, so be sure to check it out.
Director: Woody Allen
Producers: Stephen Tenenbaum, Gareth Wiley
Starring: Brian Cox, Matthew Goode, Scarlett Johansson, Emily Mortimer, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers
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