Kate another great/terrible line is from old Johnathan-Rhys-Henry-VIII when asked if he likes teaching tennis: "I don't mind it for now but I'd simply slit my throat if I thought I had to do it forever". Also, much is made of his poor, Irish upbringing but he has the poshest most English accent ever.
Despite that I do like it because I think the storyline is actually really clever and the concept of how so much in this life hinges on luck is a really perceptive one. Which way will the ball go? I also really like (SPOILER ALERT) that he gets away with it all, even though he's a dickhead, adulterous, lying arsehole.
The morality tale is that there is no justice, almost. Nola, for all her flighty princessyness does love truly and act genuinely according to what she believes.... But her luck has been shit from day one, growing up poor and with an alcoholic mother, not getting the acting roles despite being as good and as beautiful as the others she's competing with. Chris, on the other hand, is this bizarre Walter Mitty guy who will be whatever he needs to be to get what best benefits him, but he succeeds in life because he's fallen on his feet simply by virtue of his wife falling in love with him. His wife and brother in law are weak and completely reliant on their fathers wealth, but for from learning anything from any of the events in the film, they just float along on this sea of good fortune. They all literally live or die according to which way the ball falls over their net.
But I think I'm the only person who had this analysis of it because I just googled it and it's got something abysmal like a 2% approval rating from the critics Maybe I understand what Woody Allen was driving at because I'm a wrong un/pretentious twat too