Don't Know

A few days ago I watched "Match Point". As people were talking about it, I thought it should be an interesting movie. Indeed, it was. It's been more than a week since I've seen it and I still keep thinking about it. It deals with so many aspects that usually bother me, that go against my principles, but I found myself unable to judge them this time. I don't know why. I actually think I understood them, and this scares me. No, I can't say that I agree with the "solution" he found... but let's not get to that just yet. First of all, I have to say that I don't agree with Woody Allen's point that everything depends on one's luck. Yeah, right, who am I to contradict Woody Allen? Well, I can do whatever I want here :). The main character doesn't get to where he finds himself in the end because of his luck. He has a plan... it's in the "little" things he does: he says he likes opera because he knows rich people usually feel the same way too, at least only because it's a trend. He reads Dostoevsky, without being able to understand a lot, so he resorts to the Penguin "Guide to Dostoevsky"... later on he will use the gathered information to impress his future father-in-law. He slips a word about how smart Tom's sister is... to show a moderate interest, of course. It's important to notice that he never uses words such as "beautiful" when talking about her... this is one of the means the director uses to make the difference between rationality and passion. He keeps offering to pay for things, trying to show that he isn't interested in succeeding by using other's wealth... of course, of course. And many other things...
I don't like movies in which the guy gives in to his lust and hurts the "good girl", the one who is less pretty. Lol! Nevertheless, I couldn't blame J. R. Meyers's character for feeling that way... I just didn't agree with the fact that he still went on and got married... and with the fact that he toyed with both women's emotions. I think I would've understood him better if he had already been married when the other one came along; this doesn't make much sense to me, either, but I don't know... It could've been Jonathan Rhys Meyers's eyes that convinced me... ha, ha, ha!
Getting back to the "luck" matter... indeed, Chris gets lucky in the end, when the wedding ring... but, but... I also find that Woody Allen contradicts himself here. In the begining, the character says that if the ball falls on your side of the court, you lose. The fact is, in the scene I mentioned, the "ball" (aka the wedding ring) falls on his side, but he wins because of that! Again, I don't know...
The ending... a bit too much? That's what I thought at first, but it was the only way to do it without using happy smiles or mawkish break-ups.
Why did I like this movie so much? Don't know. Oh, last thing: I would've never guessed Woody Allen was the director.