The making of a psychopath

Rating: 4/10 (8 August 2013)

I never thought I watched another Woody Allen movie until I was about half way through Match Point and decided to check on the whole cast.
I thought on giving up on the film, I do that a lot specially for acting reasons. The two leads weren't all that good except for their looks. Their two supporting actors were much better and I stuck it out. What a surprise at the end. Let the characters say it in their own words or was it Mr. Allen speaking?
You can learn to push the guilt under the rug and... go on. You have to. Otherwise it overwhelms you.
And what about me? What about the next-door neighbor? I had no involvement in this awful affair. Is there no problem about me having to die as an innocent bystander?
The innocent are sometimes slain to make way for a grander scheme. You were collateral damage.
So was your own child.
Sophocles said: "To never have been born may be the greatest boon of all."
That last line is too easy a cop-out. You'll have to watch the whole movie to get to those juicy words of.. a psychopath. And trying to have us believe it was all due to poor origins is to suspend disbelief. How many will fall for it though? Way to go for making a totally unwarranted diversion. Now even though the lines were taken after 'Crime and Punishment' by Fyodor Dostoevsky, (I haven't read the book and don't intend to), it's a poor excuse to know that duplicity has always existed and to this day if only worse. We have 9/11 as an everyday reminder.