Passion...
Passion is definitely an important element in this film, it's basically the reason why everything ends on how it ends... It's this important passion which makes Chris cheat on his wife, this passion which makes him be untrue and become a liar. Passion is also the reason why he can't completely leave Chloe, his wife, for Nola, his affaire. He loves this feeling of having this special secret, even if in the end this makes him kill his real love...
Also Nola feels this passion for Chris, and you can really see in the film how much he loves him.
Obsession...
Also obsession is very important in this film, and also this feeling can basically be found on the main character Chris. He feels osbsession for Nola, he loves her, yes, but he is not ready to leave his wife Chloe for her. He has an obsession for his affaire and he's not able to leave her nor his wife... It's maybe a kind of frightened feeling that Chris has, because he can't and doesn't want to stay alone, thing which makes him act how he does, playnig with both of the women.
Also Nola feels this obsession for Chris, but compared to him she is ready to give up everything for being and having a child with him
Temptation...
Also this feeling of temptation can be found in Chris. Temptation is basically the relationship between Chris and Nola, this feeling from Chris when he thinks about Nola and has this desire to be with her, even if he knows that he's married to Chloe and that a divorce with her would break her heart. Nola, for Chris, is also like a way to hide and escape from his normal live, to do something forbidden...
2)
This scene takes place when Chris and Nola meet for the first time. It happens in Nola and her husband's house, while she is playning table-tennis. Nola is talking first, Chris is just to impressed of her beauty that he doesn't really know what to say or to think.
From their words we notice that there is an incredible attraction between them and that both, Chris and Nola show it with what they say... Also their facial expressions and movements show that they're definitely interested in each other. The director presents these two characters in a different way than the other characters. Nola looks like a very sensual woman, but she also looks a little confused, just because the viewer knows that he's the wife of Chloe's brother. Chris looks completely impressed and also quite confused. Both of them take notice of this at
traction between them...
The scene translated:
Nola: Well, who's my next victim? (...) you?
Chris: I haven't played table-tennis for a long time.
Nola: You wanna play at 1000 pounts the game/match?
Chris: How did I get myself into this?
Nola: And how did I get MYSELF into this?
Chris: It's like this. (...) Can I?
Nola: Please.
Chris: You have to bend down and follow the ball.
Nola: I was playing quite well before you appeared.
Chris: Oh... my eternal destiny.And tell me, what does an american beauty like you mixed up with the hight british class?
Nola: have they ever told you that you play a very aggressive game?
Chris: have they ever told you that you have a very sensual mouth?
Nola: (...) Very aggressive...
Chris: I like competitions... is this a bad thing?
Nola: I'll have to think about it for a while...
3)
Chris: Obsessed, he doesn't really know what he wants, selfish, doesn't think about the consequences of his acts.
Nola: mysterious beauty, afraid, quite ambitious but too nervous in her auditions.
Chloe: innocent, trusts too many people and too quickly, obsessed.
Tom: serious, trivial, active.
The mother: strict, obsessed,rich.
The father: he's a good man, rich.
4)
a) Irish: Chris
English middle class: Chloe, Tom and their family.
London Cockney:
American: Nola
b) London Cockney accent: This accent is typical from britain, it's not as much as "relaxed" as the accent of the USA or Canada, who's speakers talk quite quicklier. Nonetheless, cockney speakers belong to the worker class, and speak in a colloquial way. For example he says things
or expressions like "me mum" or "in them days".
Wales, swansea accent: Native speaker from Wales talk in a quite different way. For example they don't pronounce /r/ like for example americans do, maybe similar to the scottish accent.
Australian accent: those speakers speak maybe quicklier than amercian people, they don't really talk with breaks.
5)
I think this scene is very important for this film and it describes exactly what happens to Chris. It shows that there are moments in life when everything can turn completely different as you had expected. These kind of moments like a tennis match, when the ball hits the net and everything depends on where it falls. Chris explains us that in life it's more important to be lucky, than to be good. Which is, from my point of view, quite true. It shows that if you win or loose in life can completely depend on one single moment, on one split of second...
The director also retakes this scene at the end, when Chris throws the stolen jewells into the river. Also this moment is very important, because the ring doesn't fall into the water, it hits the fence and falls to the ground, which makes that someone finds it and is discovered by the police and suspected for the murder.
6)
The expression "Match Point" is used in tennis when one player only needs one point more to win the match. I think the director uses this expression for his title to describe that everything, win or loose for Chris, depends on one single action he had to do: the important decision of leaving Chloe for Nola or staying with her.
7)
What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.
WOODY ALLEN
This expression from Woody Allen has catched my atention. Well, the truth is that it was quite difficult to find one of his expressions that I liked... But in the end I chose this one because it made me think. The first impression you get when you read this is that it's quite funny, but in the end you start thinking about it. What if it's true that nothing really exist, that everything is illusion? Maybe the carpet we buy isn't as we see it, maybe he hasn't got colours, or different ones... Or maybe it doesn't exist and everything is a dream..! However, we can not really know about this and I think science won't be able to discover it...
