Netflix--Match Point, A Winner!
Hi ho, MMMLogerinos!
In an effort to more effectively manage my TV watching time, as in limit it greatly and detox myself from the news and crime shows, I subscribed to Netflix, a virtual DVD store that sends me three DVDs from my Queue, which I see is down to only six movies and needs updating. This service has worked out great as my closest Netflix facility is in Tacoma and the turnaround time is usually only a day or so. Instead of watching news or some inane rerun of sitcoms during the dinner hour, we pop in a DVD.
Last night we viewed Match Point, a 2005 drama from BBC Films. The son of MMMM had recommended this movie to us and after viewing it, I understood why. One of the movies that he thought most amazing was The Player in which a Hollywood producer gets away with murder.
In Match Point, a poor but calculating Irish tennis pro targets an upper class lifestyle and hopes to marry into money. Woody Allen directed this film and I'd not have guessed that as it was indeed a "suspenseful drama with a Hitchcockian flair" as the mailer blurb proclaimed. The tennis pro clearly never had what it took to win top seed, though he played a very good game until the match point. His life mirrors his game as he goes after the lifestyle he wants, studying the classics and chess, playing chess and working at a tennis club where he meets London's elite. And he gets the girl, who's entirely smitten with him as is her wealthy upper class though oddly egalitarian family. But you know he hasn't got what it takes to win this game. He'll screw it up somehow, his shot will fall short or he'll rush the net when he should have played it from the baseline.
Not once did I pull for this guy. The DH and I lamented his overarching stupidity and his willingness to lose. But he didn't, and that was the surprise. He acted with incredible audacity to defend his position and ultimately win the game.
See this movie and hang in there during the boring (to some) initial British bits. The ending will have you shaking your head with amazement and hoping to hell that sort of thing doesn't really happen. But you know it does . . .
MMMMMMMMMelinda
In an effort to more effectively manage my TV watching time, as in limit it greatly and detox myself from the news and crime shows, I subscribed to Netflix, a virtual DVD store that sends me three DVDs from my Queue, which I see is down to only six movies and needs updating. This service has worked out great as my closest Netflix facility is in Tacoma and the turnaround time is usually only a day or so. Instead of watching news or some inane rerun of sitcoms during the dinner hour, we pop in a DVD.
Last night we viewed Match Point, a 2005 drama from BBC Films. The son of MMMM had recommended this movie to us and after viewing it, I understood why. One of the movies that he thought most amazing was The Player in which a Hollywood producer gets away with murder.
In Match Point, a poor but calculating Irish tennis pro targets an upper class lifestyle and hopes to marry into money. Woody Allen directed this film and I'd not have guessed that as it was indeed a "suspenseful drama with a Hitchcockian flair" as the mailer blurb proclaimed. The tennis pro clearly never had what it took to win top seed, though he played a very good game until the match point. His life mirrors his game as he goes after the lifestyle he wants, studying the classics and chess, playing chess and working at a tennis club where he meets London's elite. And he gets the girl, who's entirely smitten with him as is her wealthy upper class though oddly egalitarian family. But you know he hasn't got what it takes to win this game. He'll screw it up somehow, his shot will fall short or he'll rush the net when he should have played it from the baseline.
Not once did I pull for this guy. The DH and I lamented his overarching stupidity and his willingness to lose. But he didn't, and that was the surprise. He acted with incredible audacity to defend his position and ultimately win the game.
See this movie and hang in there during the boring (to some) initial British bits. The ending will have you shaking your head with amazement and hoping to hell that sort of thing doesn't really happen. But you know it does . . .
MMMMMMMMMelinda
posted by MMMelinda at 7:50 AM
