Thirteen (Millions of Killing Game): Greed that leads to destruction

Casimer 2022-01-06 08:02:16

The cruel game of Russian roulette was first learned from the American movie "Deer Hunter". At that time, I was shocked that life could be a bet, and the life and death of people was left to the judgment of fate. Whether to survive or return to the west, you can decide in an instant. You can't predict it, but you can only passively accept it. It depends on when the bullet in the barrel is shot.
But the scene of "Deer Hunter" is compared with "Thirteen" (a million killing game). In "Deer Hunter", the roulette plot is just an embellishment to illustrate the cruelty of war. On the battlefield in Vietnam, the soldiers have seen too many deaths and experienced a lot of difference between life and death. For them, such a bullet is just a finger from the god of death. At least they can to some extent. Can decide one's own life and death. Although the scene that impressed me the most in "Deer Hunter" is this plot, the cruelty of this plot is not so bloody.
In "Thirteen", Russian roulette becomes the whole story. It is not two people pulling the trigger, but a dozen people in a circle, each with a gun pointed at the head of the person in front. When the light bulb lights up and the gunshots sound in unison, it is not one person who falls, but several people. And this method keeps repeating until the last two confrontation. This means that at the end of the game, more than a dozen people will die. The saddest thing is that those who died needless to say. With the passing of life, they are like animals in a slaughterhouse, thrown aside in blood and blood, and they have no chance of gambling. Even the final winner, they are just pawns in the hands of big bosses carrying suitcases full of money at the back, big bosses make big money from dirty blood, and get extraordinary psychological satisfaction from it, and all they get is a little bit of hard work. money.
Take your own life to gambling, even if you win, you can only win very few chips. Why are so many people going to gambling? Most of them should be forced by money and have to gamble with their lives. Of course, there are exceptions. Some are seriously ill and are used by younger brothers to make money; some are fished out of prison and resold to others; some are confused and misled, just like the protagonist in the movie. They all have one thing in common, they all have a fate, and they all have the same greed. The protagonist Vincent in the movie is a poor creature. His father is seriously injured and ill in bed. The family is already considering selling a house for emergency. As the eldest son, he can only rely on odd jobs to make up for the family. Eavesdropping on the employer's conversation made him think that he had a chance to make a fortune. The sudden death of the poisonous insect who wanted to make money with his life made him embarrassed and embarked on a path of no return.
Vincent deserves sympathy. He just wants to get money to save his family as soon as possible. Finally, after knowing that it is difficult for him to escape the chase of his fate, he also sent the money he earned to his mother. But in the movie, it is difficult for you to sympathize with this innocent young man involved in this game. After all, he came to this slaughterhouse under the control of greed. He has experienced the ups and downs of life and death. In a short night, he wandered between heaven and hell. This night, he may have experienced more than his previous life. However, he is only taking responsibility for his greed, and greed of other people's money will inevitably be punished. The number he got was the unlucky thirteen, but fate took care of this poor creature with no experience, he turned out to be the final winner in roulette. But the weight of the balance can't be on his side forever, he has to be repaid for what he gets. In the end, he died under the gun, which made the whole film gloomy all the way. Who said that life must have a bright end? Greed has to be calmed down with life.
Gamblers and drug addicts are the two most untrustworthy people. I don't know who said this sentence. In fact, it is very thorough because they have been crazy about it and they no longer have the most basic human dignity. There are two characters arranged at the beginning and the end of the film. At the beginning, there are fewer poisonous insects. He just leads the story. He was greedy for drugs, taking drugs and sucking everything out of him, so he had to go to life, but in the end he died of drug overdose. Jasper, played by Jason Statham, is a professional gambler. In order to covet the money that his parents left for his brother to treat his illness, he did not hesitate to keep his brother in the hospital; in order to get more money, he pulled his brother out of the hospital and asked him to kill him. He has the habit of a professional gambler, daring to bet everything, and will never stop until he loses to the last pair of underpants. He deceived his elder brother and didn't even want to give him the money he had come from. He could have stopped in time, not only made a lot of money, but also saved his brother's life, but the gambler is a gambler after all, he lost everything in the end, and also took his brother's life. Red-eyed, he focused on the winner Vincent, and shot Vincent on the train. He wanted to take the money from Vincent's life, but in the bulging bag there was only the black-eared sheep doll that Vincent bought for his sister. His figure disappeared in the distance, what will his fate be like? He was born for gambling and will surely die from gambling.
There are many religions in the world, each of which has different doctrines, but they have one thing in common, that is, they all regard controlling people's desires as one of their goals. People have no desires, and society cannot develop. Too many desires of people make the world full of disputes, and make human society and people themselves inexhaustible. Greed is the easiest way for humans to sprout and to dominate human actions. The human heart is greedy throughout the life, and demons take root and spread in the human heart, and people will go crazy and ruined. Throughout the ages, it has never been so.

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13 quotes

  • [first lines]

    Vince Ferro: [leaving the house] Mom?

    Leanne Ferro: I'm here.

    Clara Ferro: [running out of the house] Mom! You forgot it. Are you sure this is the right thing? It feels like we barely even thought about it.

    Leanne Ferro: Yeah, we did.

    Vince Ferro: We don't have any other option, Clara.

    Clara Ferro: Okay.

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