Showing posts with label Woody Allen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Woody Allen. Show all posts

Monday, November 8, 2010

Match Point



One of Woody Allen's most beautifully shot films, I watched Match Point (2005) last week. A film of entrapment, lust, obsession, deception, and crime; it wasn't what I expected. It was better. Is it just me, or do all the character's seem very two-dimensional and cardboard-cut-out in Allen's films, apart from when they give into some form of illicit lust? That's when you see the real person come out. I think one of the saddest things about this film is that some characters never achieve this release, they are trapped in their own, 2-dimensional worlds of blind obsession and social position, remaining oblivious to it all.