Match point (by Sergi Costa)

1. What type of film is Match point and where is it set? describe the first escene.

This film is a thriller and it is set in London. In the first scene we can see a tennis ball hitting the net and while the narrator explains that sometimes in life the ball falls forward and you win and sometimes it falls backwards and you lose.

2. Who are Chris Wilton, Nola Rice and Chloe Hewett?

Chris Wilton – He is the protagonist and he is a retired tennis player. He meets a young rich man called Tom
Nola Rice – She is Tom's girlfriend.
Chloe – She's Tom's sister she ends up meeting Chris, consequently they get married.

3. How would you describe their personalities?

Chris is an ambitious man , he is not happy with what he has, that being the reason for his marriage to Chloe who has a rich family, but since she doesn’t attract him sexually he goes in search of a more attractive woman who ends up being Nola. After a time he has to take a decission and choose one of the two women, he ends up killing Nola, his lover, and staying with his rich wife ,Chloe.

Nola – She seems to me to be a person with interests due to the fact that she was in a relationship with Chloe’s brother and cheats on him with Chris because she wants to and when her boyfriend leaves her she still maintains a sexual relationship with Chris. Once she was pregnant she wanted Chris to leave Chloe

Chloe – Chloe is a sweet person who loves Chris and her obsession is to become pregnant, she is also a simple, innocent woman because she doesn’t realize that Chris is cheating on her.

Can you summarize the film in few lines?

The film is about Chris, a retired tennis player who works as a personal trainer in London. There he meets Tom, a rich young man, and the she meets his sister Chloe and they start a relationship . From this moment on he will go out with Chloe but will be sexually attracted to Nola, who is Tom's fiancee. Nola and Chris have an affair although Nola says that it can't continue. Later on Chris and Chloe get married and they live together but Chris gets informed that Nola and Tom have split up and decides to look for her. When he finally finds her he reawakens the intimate attraction between them and there new relationship will last for a long time. But when Nola finds out she is pregnant she tells Chris that she wants the baby and that if he loves her he will have to divorce Chloe.

At this time Chris has to make the decision of the love he feels for Nola or the ambition of living with a rich family, and having a great job…

Finally he decides to kill Nola. Firstly what he does is to kill the neighbor and to simulate a robbery and then kill Nola. During the robbery he steals jewelry and a ring. After the incident Chris throws the robbed items into the river but the ring bounces on the railing and falls on the pavement. When the police are going to discover the Chris is a murdere , there is a report of a drug addict wha was found by the revier wearing the woman’s ring. At the end of the film and Chris is free and unpunished.

5 IN the film ambition is stronger than the love and passion. can you explain why?

Ambition is stronger than passion because Chris only maintains a relationship with Chloe because she is rich and has a good job. In fact he didn’t really love her, he really loved Nola but if he had left Chloe he wouldn’t have had a good job and he wouldn't have been rich.

6. Is chris Wilton a winner or a loser of this match? Can you imagine his life in the future?

Chris is the loser of this match because, although he got away with murder, he wil have to live with pangs of conscience for the rest of his life. I believe that in the future Chris will be a cold person with a lot of guilt on his conscience.

7. Why do you think Woody Allen lets chris free and unpunished?

I think that Woody Allen has let Chris be free and as criticism to the society we live in and the justice system, Innocent people get blamed for what the real suspect did, and therefore the system is flawed.

8. Can you imagine any other ending?

Of course, Chris after killing those innocent victims and getting away with it, he would end up killing himself for having a guilty conscience.

9.What would have happened if the ring had fallen into the river Thames?

The police officer would have investigated further and they would have arrested him.

10. Give your opinion about the film and give reasons why you liked it or didn't like it.

I really liked the film because it has a good storyline and Woody Allen knows how to create a rising tension in the film. Also you don’t know what will happen at the end and that’s why you never want to miss a bit of the film and think: O My God what will happen next? I also like the musical pieces (opera) in the movie that rise the tension even more.