Woody's Movie

Last night I saw "Match Point" written and directed by Woody Allen, who I enjoy in the comedic sense, but whose nihilistic outlook, at least portrayed in this movie, I did not agree with. The movie is an excellent cinematic creation, but it's too bad that he takes the position that all is random and there is only luck and justice is not an immutable inevitability. The box that is drawn around this premise is a bit short sighted since it never shows what ultimately happens to Chris Wilton, a tennis player who marries into a rich aristocratic family, who has an affair and kills his lover, who is pregnant. Wilton conceives and achieves evil and avoids arrest through a "lucky" break of evidence presenting itself to divert the police from his guilt. Allen contends there is no poetic justice and perhaps the only thing that punishes Wilton is his own guilt. Then again, he states that guilt can be swept under the rug and you can simply push on.

It is an interesting aside picked up by Ben, my son, observed in connection with the murder of Wilton's lover. She is pregnant and Wilton insists that she get an abortion, which she is rife to do. So Wilton decides to kill her since it inconveniences his newly obtained life style. It is an interesting observation that her refusal of abortion became murder of both herself and the baby, perhaps as an extension of one another based on the same rationale.

All in all, a brilliant movie, however I felt it about its misguided theme concerning the ultimate questions of life.