Match Point (2005)
(film 124 minutes)

Directed by: Woody Allen
Language: English

Rating: 6/10 | Yaser Tohidi
October 01, 2019

Chris meets a Rich guy, Tom, and through him he enters their house and starts a relationship with his sister, Chloe, just to have access to their wealth. He is in love with Tom’s wife, Nola, whom he sees during a family gathering and they are instantly attracted to each other. Nola, like Chris, comes from a poor family and like him, uses her sex appeal to enter the rich family. Chris marries Chloe but when he, by chance, sees Nola in the city, after Nola’s break-up with Tom, embark in a relationship with her. Nola becomes pregnant and insists that Chris should leave Chloe and come to her. Chris who reads Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky in an early scene of the movie sets a plan to murder Nola to run away from his situation. His plan has similarities to Raskolnikov plan in Crime and Punishment. However, Chris motivation for killing Noel does not convince the viewers unless he is a psychopath, but this also does not suit his character. Also, his attachment to the new wealthy life does not seem very strong. On the contrary his love to Nola seems stronger. This contrasts with Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment where he commits the crime from being in a difficult economic and mental situation. These we don’t see in Chris. 
Chris is less moral than Raskolnikov and he can hide his crime although some circumstances -the fact of finding the ring from the criminal scene in the hand of another criminal- also helps him. Chris is not moral. He does not believe in justice. He just looks for his wealthy future with his wife and her family though he does not seem very much moved by the new life. Match Point plays around with the logic and morality and justice in Crime and Punishment and tries to prove that not everyone is like Raskolnikov. Why is he like that? Does he want to prove that there can be no morality, that there is no justice? What is his motivation for doing this? These questions are not addressed in the scenario and they are left to interpretation by the viewer. 
Match Point depicts weight of chance in life and how it changes our destiny, Chris, by chance, gets to know Tom who happens to break-up with Nola. Chris accidentally runs into Nola later in the city. Their relationship brings a child and finally a luck -of not removing everything from the crime scene- saves him later in police investigations. Life is unpredictable and faith plays an important part in it.

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