--- Jeff Vorzimmer <
jvorzimmer@austin.rr.com> wrote: I think
Theodore
> Dreiser first wrote this
> story in An American Tragedy in 1931, which has
been
> made into a movie no
> fewer than four times, most notably, A Place in
the
> Sun starring Liz Taylor
> and Montgomery Cliff.
****************************************************** Yeah,
but in AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY the cad is put to death. This guy
walks, and goes on apparently to a rich, successful life.
There is no justice or any chance of justice in this story.
To under rate MATCHPOINT as just another 'man kills his
mistress' story, is, I think, to completely miss it's point.
Even if this guy becomes addicted to murder and goes on to
commit another and is finally caught, there'll never be
closure for Scarlet Johansson because an unsuspecting loser
is caught dead with her ring so the case is closed. I still
think it's a very original and cynical twist on a set of
circumstances as old as humans. In Dreiser's day there were
bad guys. Today, the wealthy can spin their behavior and make
it look like self defense. This character's crimes are
reprehensible, two women dead, and even his conscience isn't
stirred.
Patrick King
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