The best aspect in Hol­ly­wood is it’s vari­ety. Every writer or Direc­tor attracts me for dif­fer­ent rea­sons. One such impres­sive Direc­tor is Woody Allen. Woody Allen started his career as a com­edy writer, stand-up come­dian, stage plays and then came to cin­ema. He is famous for his inter­ests in wits, sex­u­al­ity, New York, Phi­los­o­phy, Psy­chol­ogy, unimag­in­able cin­ema tech­niques and lengthy dia­logues [ walk the talk ! ], etc.,

The film deals with 3 elements.

Luck : [ defined as ‘Prepa­ra­tion meets oppor­tu­nity’ ] The film says we are scared to face the real­ity; about the influ­ence of luck in our life.

Attrac­tion : We get attracted towards for an unreach­able item [ Once, BSA SLR cycle was the ulti­mate attrac­tion for me ! ]. This film also deals with how attrac­tion ignites, burns and become ashes. [ Adade ! ]

Fyo­dor Dos­to­evsky : The famous Russ­ian lit­er­a­ture ‘crime and pun­ish­ment’ also influ­enced the story. Post crime psychology.

Plot :

The story involves a one time Irish ten­nis pro Chris [ poor class], who coaches in a ten­nis club. He is attracted towards the rich life style of the upper class. He meets his old friend Tom and also sub­se­quently his fam­ily. He min­gles with the fam­ily eas­ily and Tom’s sis­ter Chloe is attracted towards Chris. Chris.. to an extent yes. He is more towards risky n some­thing unreach­able . He eyes on the fiancee of Tom (Nola). She is also attracted towards Chris but plays it cool say­ing him that she is already engaged. This dan­ger­ous chem­istry grows. Due to some con­flicts, Tom and Nola break their rela­tion; Nola leaves. Tom gets mar­ried to some other girl.

Chris is hap­pily mar­ried to Chloe and set­tles with his in-laws busi­ness, enjoys the new wealthy life. He couldn’t have chil­dren because of some med­ical issues of Chloe. Fate plays a game. Nola returns to the same town [ Cot­ton bale to Sivakasi :) ]. Chris rebuilds the rela­tion. Pas­sion always has its price. What price did Chris and Nola pay ? What does the title ‘Match point’ do with this film ? There hap­pens a CRIME !

View :

The very first point is this is not the usual Woody Allen film. Unlike Man­hat­tan and Annie hall, MP doesn’t con­tain any kind of wits that he had in his ear­lier movies rather he han­dled psy­chol­ogy to a great extent. Also, this movie is not based on Man­hat­tan, NY.

The cast­ing has to be men­tioned explic­itly. Chris and Chloe have very much dreary and ordi­nary looks. In con­trast, Nola was stun­ningly and sen­su­ally beau­ti­ful [ Pod­hum­daa. :) ].

The movie starts with an expla­na­tion of what a MP is with respect to Ten­nis. This fan­tas­tic def­i­n­i­tion is mixed with luck and explained in some part of the film.

Chris role was done fan­tas­ti­cally with the hes­i­ta­tions, desire, pas­sion, risk [ machaan fiancee–nga ! ]. Credit goes to the cast­ing decisions.

Nola.. She sym­bol­ises dan­ger and prob­lem in the movie [ with the enor­mous beauty as her vis­it­ing card ]. Her per­for­mance was note­wor­thy to men­tion [ Pinna sum­mavaa ;) ].

Towards the end, the story trem­bles and again comes back on track. The end­ing was good, especially.

Con­clu­sion :

I rec­om­mend the usual Woody movies first and then this MP so as to under­stand the diversity.

Film Trivia :

“The Shin­ing” was the fist movie [ directed by Stan­ley Kub­er­ick ] to use Steadicam. I con­sider this movie as the mother of hor­ror movies.

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