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The much hailed W. Allen.
Well, he just reinvented himself.
The film deal with hazard, hazard of life. Pointing out there is no supreme justice and what happen just happen.
The only retalation after you made something really bad, like killing two people, is your conscience.
We are left alone in a see of imponderance.
That is Allen philosophy.
Now the film?
The first half perfect, the second getting wicked and cruel ( for the high society & people )
until almost the end, and a nice twist ( of fate...of course ) at the end.
Finally a failed effort in my view.But I will not be missing his next, as this one was very promessing.
Follow Ups:
unwatchable. Scarlet, show us those Golden Globes you ar famous for, and shut up!! Terrible acting.
Script was that an 80 year old man would write forgetting what it was like to be young and sex addled, and sexually attracive to the opposite sex.Truly a horrible movie.
I was surprised it was so intense, it is hard to like people that have so much handed to them. I was kind of releived when it was over and consider it a near miss at being excellent.Worth a look and a comparison to Hitchcock might be warrented but he was more subtle and plain with his stories, this felt more contrived.
I think a part of his dilemma was he was torn to his old Allen and his new rebirth as a film maker.
Now I wait his second effort of his second period.
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Ex nihilo, nihil fit . . .
nt
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Ex nihilo, nihil fit . . .
The movie was a tedious endurance contest for me. The primary character was utterly unlikable and shallow. While the twist was clever it lost all impact when spent on a character I cared so little for. It also lacked texture. It was humorless and poorly paced. That probably added to the sheer tediousness of the movie over all.
Alfred Hitchcock employed many of the same slowly evolving ("tedious") character developement techniques cleverly used in Match Point. He made his characters interesting, albeit flawed, and not always likable, just as Woody has done here. On the surface Hitch's character driven stories always seemed to have a slice-of-life quality to them, focusing on troubled relationships, with an underlying sense that something wasn't quite right and that some terrible event was going to happen at any given moment.In Hitchcock's tales an interesting plot device was often employed, what he called a "McGuffin" or an object being sought that was only of importance to one or more of the characters, but not important to telling the story about the characters. Woody used this technique perfectly here.
Scott, you are certainly entitled to your dissenting opinion of this movie, but AFAIC, your analysis is dead wrong. The pacing was perfect and while Woody's intent was dramatic irony rather than comic irony there was sufficient situational humor for a story of this kind.
Cheers,
AuPh
"Alfred Hitchcock employed many of the same slowly evolving ("tedious") character developement techniques cleverly used in Match Point."
I quite like Hitchcock. It was the character development that I found tedious it was the movie that I found tedious because I found nothing likable nor interesting in the primary character. I am more than happy to enjoy character development at a slow pace.
" He made his characters interesting, albeit flawed, and not always likable, just as Woody has done here."
Yes, his characters were interesting. That is where Matchpoint departs. There was nothing interesting about the main character at all. nothing to empathise with. He was shallow, soiapathic and humorless. It did not allow me to invest any interest in his fate.
"Scott, you are certainly entitled to your dissenting opinion of this movie, but AFAIC, your analysis is dead wrong. The pacing was perfect and while Woody's intent was dramatic irony rather than comic irony there was sufficient situational humor for a story of this kind."
Thank you for accepting my opinion while disagreeing with it. The problem I had with the pacing was it was to even. It felt like a two hour long Phillip Glass composition with a punchline. But some people love Phillip Glass don't they?
Is Audiophilander not a generous man?
You are allowed...To have an own opinion.
;^)
Neither did I!
But I supremely admire his way to reborn himself. After many years of serving us a cold warmed-up again dishes, with more or less sucess, this one is a new society critical one.
Like revenge, a dishes you may be served...Cold.
I will have some time another look at it.
Now that I bought the DVD...
Maybe...
Althoughi enjoyed it I feel that the film's theme was dealt with much better in Allen's "Crimes and Misdemeanors".
Much more in a " Bermannesque " way, but I think the real WA tone is not the Greek tragic but much more suitable to him the ...WA tone.
And you know what? I thought already at it yesterday as I saw it.
There is an immense likeness between this picture and...
So now, here is the question, and what other film?Guess.
I haven't a clue. Tell me.
Gosford Park. Altmanīs film.
The same critical view on upper class.
nt
Yes much richer, on different levels particulary on the social issue.
Ultimatively also a failure, and that did hurt me reaaly hard.
I think the way S. Fry act and the way Altman let him and the script ruin the second half of the film.
My big loss.
Anyway there are many similitudes between both films, donīt you think?
There certainly are parrallels in content but the feel of each is so different that I have a hard time calling them similar.
I would call them distant cousins.
Yes, if youcould underststand what the hell they were saying.
He-he...I had the CC titles on...And a shot of single malt...( that is very necessary on this one...)
I liked it a bit more than others here. The twist was unexpected. I really do think Scarlet Johansson was unfairly criticized because she acted her age in this one- after all, I think we all forget shes only 21.When you consider her body of work so far, the fact of her young age is rather astonishing.
Music is Emotion
Match Point appears to be a homage to Hitchcock in both concept and style, but with an inspired twist that I doubt Hitchcock would've gotten away with. IMHO, this film is borderline high art; Woody scores a winner here, with few faults.AuPh
" With an inspired twist that I doubt Hitch..."
You are fantasying...Even if the plot may vaguely remember the master of suspence, it is on a completely different level!
One being an intellectual, the other a sensual pulpy, Freudian, symbolistic director.
How do you say? Apples and pears.
BTW, in spite of having a superior continental twist, all of your serves have gone wide; as your humble chair umpire, I'm calling a double fault in your analysis of Woody & Hitch. ;^)Game, Set and Match.
AuPh
How can you be so conservative?
And that " grey poupon "...
Do me a favour, will you?
Find some thing new...Like apples and...pears...
That was not an anal-lysis, my dear it was about apples and ...
PS: I hope you can do something ( no doubt ) about the anal-.....PSII: Now that Victor has gone out of my life how about us two sweetie?...
;^)
You are the perfect denunciator.
Well o well...I consider-Her body. ( point )She was not very good in this one, but I have hope that she will become a good actress.
With Woody she will certainly got the right finish...
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