Judah Rosenthal is a successful ophthalmologist, father, husband, and generous donor: he has all the traits of a noble man, but he has a secret. He's been having an affair for two years and now the hysterically in love woman is threatening to expose him to his wife and the rest of the world. Crushed by fear and torment, Judah decides to have her murdered. Despite the brutality of his choice, it is not a simple task for him, even though he has always been skeptical of the Jewish traditions he learned from his father and being a man of science himself. Murder had never been considered before. It is the sin of sins, the greatest depravity of respect for one's victim - how could he do it? And if he did, how could he live with that? This fundamental question arises throughout the 1989 film Crime, in which director Woody Allen also challenges his audience to consider whether he would commit murder if he knew he would get away with it. . However, to shed light on the issue of morality, it is necessary to understand its very nature. One of the many aspects that preoccupy philosophical thought is the question of morality. It goes back in time to Aristotle, who can be considered one of the most profound thinkers in the history of moral philosophy thanks to his theory of virtue. In Aristotelian terms, Joseph Kupfer defines virtues as “the excellent qualities of individuals which make them valuable to themselves and to others.” […] Virtues are attributes necessary for a happy common life, because we must be able to count on others, as well as on ourselves, to flourish” (1999: 23). Essentially, acting virtuously not only benefits a... middle of paper ...... Crimes and Misdemeanors goes against the grain of films that depict a conventional moral structure. Judah doesn't get punished and Cliff doesn't get the girl, as would commonly happen in the real world. Judah discovers that no one will punish him unless he punishes himself, so he chooses to overcome his burden and find new meaning in his life. As Levy points out, it is only us who make sense of the indifferent universe, and the same goes for the film's relationship to the philosophical approaches it references. Judah might say he finally got his life back, but did he really? As Wartenberg says, “cinema allows us to see the complexity of our moral lives in a way that allows us to more fully grasp the morally significant aspects of it” (2007: 98), and Crimes and Misdemeanors fulfills this task perfectly. by provoking, stimulating and contradicting our moral thinking too.