What exactly does the falling off the ring to the other side indicate ?
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leishayoung — 11 years ago(June 29, 2014 04:40 PM)
It's the 'Match Point'. At that point his life can go either way. The police can find the ring (and with it perhaps some of his DNA) and he will go to jail for the rest of his life for a double murder, or somebody else will find it and keep itwhich is essentially what happens.
A homeless man finds the ring and the police find him with the ring in his hand, they therefore assume that he is the murderer and not Chrisby pure luck he gets off with murder and some other poor guy goes to prison for Chris's crime.
If you watch the very first scene in the film where he talks about what a 'Match Point' is in tennis and how luck very often decides the fate of the game (as a metaphor for life), it should connect the dots for you.
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kadeskiss — 11 years ago(July 09, 2014 12:50 AM)
Luck! Chris was lucky. Chris threw the ring away hoping no one would ever find it. However the ring didn't
fall into the water, it landed on the ledge were a drug addict with a criminal background founded it. Therefore when the drug addict was shot during a similar crime it was easily assume that he was responsible for Nola's death. Chris was lucky because at that point they closed the case and he was in the clear.
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leeuwroar — 9 years ago(July 22, 2016 04:55 PM)
It s ctually big plot hole. Chris threw away the jewels including the ring into the river somewhere in the center the next day. It is never shown he did it in Nola s neighbourhood. Then the ring turns up in the pocket of junkie in Nola s neighbourhood. Very strange coincidence, not believable.
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lspear76 — 11 years ago(September 22, 2014 07:55 PM)
Tennis is a game designed by a creator with a set of rules. You win the point if the ball goes forward or lose the point if the ball falls back.
The ring doesn't bounce forward across the other side and into the water and you immediately think Chris has lost the point and will be found out. But since life itself has no designer, and there are no true rules, it turns out that it was actually good luck for Chris because the ring was found by a bum with a history of petty theft and therefore he, not Chris, was thought to be the murderer. -
bhoover247 — 11 years ago(September 26, 2014 05:59 AM)
After the murders by the Manson cult members, Charles Manson instructed the killers to leave wallets, checkbooks taken from the victims and leave them in a gas station restroom in a predominately black area of Los Angeles. He was hoping that black people would be blamed for the murders. Thankully, unlike this movie his plan didn't work.
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seedsas — 10 years ago(April 28, 2015 01:49 PM)
Its in reference to a tennis ball touching the net it either goes over or it lands in your court the latter means you lost the point. The detectives would have continued the investigation of Chris but the ring was found on dead drug addicts and as you know drug addicts are thieves thus to feed the habit. This my friend it why drugs should be legalized. Drug addicts are people too and they have the right to be an addict if that is where life leads them.
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adityaabhalerao — 9 years ago(May 04, 2016 03:32 PM)
Well, another way to look at it would be, that Chris desperately wanted to get caught! Just like Nola's ghost(his conscience) says. To which he responds saying, "at least there'll be some small measure of hope for the possibility of meaning". And eventually being denied that and having to live with a guilty conscience, signifies his biggest loss!
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ElMaruecan82 — 9 years ago(September 09, 2016 10:42 PM)
The ring thing is just another proof of Allen's brilliant capability to surprise his audience, basically, we expect him to get caught because the 'ring' goes to the wrong side, and this is precisely what saves him. No one could see it coming, and that's why it's one hell of a twist ending.
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mazardeus — 9 years ago(October 18, 2016 03:14 PM)
The analogy is that of reality. Injustice always gets away with things in our world. In order to build a better world, justice must be done. For the sake of Chris and the ring. He got lucky. The police found the ring in the hands of another man who picked it up.