Match Point (Woody Allen, 2005)
A tightly structured, morality-drama in the best possible way. Very dark as well. Crimes and Misdemeanors at least had a comic-relief element to it, Match Point is purely sober, calculated, and serious.
It got me thinking about another high-society drama, Denys Arcand's Les Invasions barbares (2003) which laments the end of intelligence. But what it really laments is this idea that the rich and affluent must also live up to a certain standard of cultural refinement. In Les Invasions barbares Remy's son is a millionaire banker dude who's "never read a single book." Is this just a Canadian phenomenon? In Allen's world the rich and affluent skip from the opera to the art gallery to the theatre and, once, slum it at the cinema to see Motorcycle Diaries (Walter Salles, 2004) but all in all they are cultureally refined through and through. But is this depiction as dated as Allen's literary references?
It got me thinking about another high-society drama, Denys Arcand's Les Invasions barbares (2003) which laments the end of intelligence. But what it really laments is this idea that the rich and affluent must also live up to a certain standard of cultural refinement. In Les Invasions barbares Remy's son is a millionaire banker dude who's "never read a single book." Is this just a Canadian phenomenon? In Allen's world the rich and affluent skip from the opera to the art gallery to the theatre and, once, slum it at the cinema to see Motorcycle Diaries (Walter Salles, 2004) but all in all they are cultureally refined through and through. But is this depiction as dated as Allen's literary references?