{"id":558,"date":"2006-08-10T21:23:36","date_gmt":"2006-08-11T02:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/uncategorized\/match-point"},"modified":"2006-08-10T21:23:36","modified_gmt":"2006-08-11T02:23:36","slug":"match-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/reviews\/movie\/match-point\/","title":{"rendered":"Match Point"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nMatch Point<\/a> came as a complete surprise to me. Not only was I expecting a tennis-related love story (that’s apparently another movie), I didn’t know it was a Woody Allen movie until the credits rolled. When it arrived all I knew about it was that my Netflix friend had just watched it and rated it one star: she hated it.\n<\/p>\n

\nSo I watched it with curiousity and I’m pleased to say that it had me completely baffled from beginning to end. I never knew what was going to happen next. I came away incredulous–which made me think–which made me rate it four stars–not because I liked it<\/strong> but because I liked that it made me think.\n<\/p>\n

\nWhen I had lunch with my Netflix friend I had to ask why she hated it. She couldn’t connect with any of the characters and so ended up watching the scenery–a sure sign that she’s bored with a movie.\n<\/p>\n

\nWhile it’s true that absolutely none of the characters is sympathetic, I find that doesn’t disqualify me from being interested in them. Sometimes quite the opposite. I became so interested in the gorgeous Jonathan Rhys Meyers<\/a> (Jude Law, watch out!) that I was chiding him to focus on his ambition to marry for wealth and not get distracted by a tawdry lust.\n<\/p>\n

\nNow isn’t that a strange movie?…how does Woody Allen make us want the cheaters to get away with cheating? Although it’s the most fantastic of the three, I think I ended up liking Match Point<\/i> better than Closer<\/i> or Carnal Knowledge<\/i>. And I’ve learned that a movie doesn’t need to have sympathetic characters in order for me to like it. Obviously, I was trending toward this when I named The Proposition<\/a> my favorite movie of the year so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Do you have to sympathize with a character to find him interesting? I find myself attracted by otherness, an alien-ness that I don’t understand.<\/p>\n

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