Autobiographical?

Rating: 5/10 (31 July 2006)

I have questions about the ghost sequence. Is Woody Allen using the two ghosts characters to comment on his own life and work? Consider: 1) Before they arrive, he's apparently fallen asleep writing at his computer, wakes up, and then continues writing. What's he writing? He doesn't care sufficiently about work to be up writing emails. In fact, nothing we know about this character would cause him to write ANYTHING obsessively. Only someone who is a WRITER does this kind of thing, ie, someone like Woody Allen.
2) Just before the ghosts arrive, what's he doing? Looking in the mirror.
3) When the ghosts speak, they're looking almost directly at the camera and we can't see him - leaves it a bit ambiguous as to whom they're speaking to.
4) The things they SAY don't completely fit with the movie. Scarlett's character says prepare to pay the price, what you did was clumsy and full of holes. First of all, he doesn't pay the price, and second "full of holes" is not a phrase we use to describe how crimes are committed. It's a phrase we use to describe the plots of movies. When she says "your child paid the price", who's she talking about? These statements are a lot closer to being a commentary on the movie, which is a bit clumsy and full of holes, and on Woody's life, in which children have gotten hurt. Older women have gotten hurt too.
Is it possible that Woody's message to the world with "Match Point" is: There is no point to anything, and I don't have any more stories to tell, but I still have bills to pay, so here's another movie? And by the way, I haven't been much of a mensch in several ways, so here are two characters to read me the riot act?