CONNING THE CON MAN
Matchstick Men, a story of two con artists, who are out to get the more vulnerable kind - old people, fat people, lonely people, as they said, and even fellow con men.. "Never con people who won't buy what you're selling".. or something like that.. And that is kind of a sad truth.. Happens to the best of us.. And I'm not just talking about buying stuff that's really worth 1/10th of the price you got it for. Love - perhaps the greatest con of all. (Ok, this is just the frustrated me talking).
Nicholas Cage plays Roy, an OC con man whose wife left him years ago during his unsober years... He is repulsed by dirt, stains and hates the outdoors. But his life changed when he met the daughter he was not sure he had. He was at his happiest. I got so touched at a scene whereby he was looking inside his ref, with food labelled "HIS" and "HERS" (tuna for him, and all sorts of junk food for his daughter) while listening to a voicemail from his daughter while she was away in school. That's what love is. As simple as enjoying looking at the things your loved one loves, or listening to a voicemail over and over again. Some may say it's pathetic, but I think that was kind of endearing, considering Roy was after all a bad guy.. And speaking of bad guys, this is one of my favorite dialogues in the movie:
Angela (daughter): Mom says you are a bad guy...
Roy: Yeah, she's right.
Angela: But you don't seem like a bad guy at all..
Roy: That's why I'm so good at it.
Yeah, needless to say, sometimes we get conned because we would never suspect to be conned by the sweet guy who gives us flowers everyday... sweeps us off our feet, until of course, he drops us back down to earth.
The story takes an interesting, sad twist in the end. Albeit, the movie still ends happily..
I liked this movie, almost made me cry (leave it to me to always fall for the bad guy.. hahaha) :)
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