You’re Not Really Anybody in American Unless You’re On TV
September 21st – September 27th
Match Point – Woody Allen returns to themes he addressed sixteen years earlier in Crimes & Misdemeanors. The one line that struck me upon this viewing:
It seems that scientists are confirming more and more that all existence is here by blind chance—no purpose, no design.
The character of Chris (or perhaps Allen), at a glance, doesn’t fully understand evolution. Of course, evolution does have a chance component, but it also (quite importantly) has a component of selection that is not based on chance. It’s why they call it natural selection.
Just because there is no purpose and design from on high doesn’t mean that everything is left to random chance and nothing else (like morality) matters or that life cannot be enjoyed. Chris may get away with murder based on luck but that doesn’t mean that he has no morality. Chris does admit that it isn’t entirely about luck. “Hard work is mandatory,” he says. But luck does play its part. At any rate, as his fiance says in response to such a world with no purpose or design: “Well, I don’t care, I love every minute of it.”
To Die For – Awww…back when Nicole Kidman was stunning (and appeared in good movies). I miss those days. It’s still a lot of fun though. But for some reason, it seemed a little empty this time around.
