"Match point" (Diego Rosso)

The type of film of "Match point" is hard to describe, most of the time the movie looks like a drama but it also looks like a thriller in some parts. The film it's set in London. In the first scene you can see a tennis ball hitting the net and it describes your future can depend on luck, you can win if the ball pass the net or you can lose if the ball falls back.

Chris Wilton, Nola Rice, Chloe Hewett and Tom Hewett are the main characters of the film. Chris is a young boy and a proffessional tennis player who wants to be or do something important in his life. He is an ambitiuos man, so ambicious that he can even kill in order no to lose the good life he had after he married the rich Chloe Hewett.

Chloe is a nice and innocent girl who fell in love with Chris at first sight. She is very friendly and a good woman.

Nola is an American girl who met and fell in love with Tom Hewett, but Tom's familiy don't accept Nola because she is just a normal girl. Nola is also very romantic.

Chris Wilton is a young Irish boy who just arrive to London. He starts working as a tennis teacher but he soon meets a man called Tom Hewett. Chris and Tom become good friends after spending time together and Chris also gets to know Tom's family, specially Chloe, Tom's sister. After some time Chris and Chloe get married but soon Chris meets Nola Rice, Tom's girlfriend .

Nola and Chris started to flirt since the first time they met in Tom's parent's house. Than Nola and Chris had an affair. But one day Nola tells Chris that she is pregnant and Chris thinks about his future: being with Nola would cause being with a girl he like to be with but with no money and on the other hand he could stay with Chloe and continue with his good life.

Later on Chris chooses the second option and kills Nola with a shotgun, stolen from Tom's parents house. Police started to investigate the murder but they can't find any evidence of Chris being a suspect. At the end Chloe gets pregnant and Chris is free of being a murderer.

Chris has two choose bettween two ways of life: poor but with a woman he loves or rich with a woman he likes but not as much as he would have to. Eventually Chris thinks the second option is better for his future.

I think in the film Chris is a winner even tough the ring he threw fell back and not to the Thames river. Police Department can't find any evidence of Chris beign a murderer so he wins the match.I can imagine Chris being really happy with Chloe and having two children: a girl and a boy. The boy would have been called Chris Junior and the girl Nola!!!

I don't know what was in Woody Allen's head when he made this film but I really like how it turned out the final result.

I can imagine another ending, that would be:

Chris got scared of being caught by the police and he ran off and escape to Ireland. Five years later, one day he decided to go back to London. Walking on the street he meets Chloe walking with a little boy: Chris's soon and then he got robbed by a man and after fighting he gets killed by him. Chloe who is near runs after hearing the shot. Later on Chloe sees in the newspaper a photo of Chris dead and being accussed of murdering a girl five years ago called Nora. Then Chloe sits on the sofa and we can see her crying about what had happened.

If the ring had fallen into the river I think Chris wouldn't have been accused of being a murderer but the police would have talked with Chloe's family and they would have discoverd the truth about the relationship of Chris and Nola that would have caused the end of the relationship between Chris and the Britisth "upper class".

Personal opinion:

At the beginning of the film I thought: oh my God! A Woody Allen's movie, because I'm not really fan of Allen's movies. But then I started to watch the film and I was interested in what was going to happen in the film. I totally love the ending, because if Chris would have been catched that would have been a typical ending but he's not and that's one of the coolest things of the movie!

Characters are also really well done and their personalities are also really good as well. It's interesting to see how Chris changes, how he decides to kill Nola, although sometimes is a bit strange movie I think it describes very well how ambition can be such a strong feeling in some people!