How bad guys are made

August 2022-01-13 08:01:21

The movie "Casino" is actually a bit different. The endless fairy jumping stories of "The King of Thousand Kings" are very commercial mainstream. For example, in Hong Kong in the 1980s and 1990s, movies of the same theme often appeared, but "Casino" is telling this story. At that time, there were some more factors that are only available in literary and artistic films, such as the slow rhythm, such as the way of calmly handling the picture. When these two things that were originally incompatible with water and fire were mixed together, it also produced unexpected effects, but I still prefer to believe that the mainstream fairy jumping stories and methods are pretense to confuse the audience. "Casino" is really A film about the spiritual level of a woman.

A friend said that boredom makes people progress. I once regarded it as truth, but I also believe that loneliness makes people abnormal. The heroine in the story, Maggie, is a psychologist and a best-selling author. Her life appears to be rich and comfortable. But my friend also said that people who are seriously engaged in very noble professions under the sun are more or less problematic, such as doctors and teachers. Saying this, the servant is really like a ghost. One of the most important reasons why the calm Maggie in the film got caught in the fairy jump set by a liar is that she wants to really help the patients who come to her.

She realized that her work did not actually help the patients at all, and the emergence of patients was of no value to her work. So she became depressed and confused. When she confided to her teacher, the teacher told her that she should do something to satisfy her and do something to make herself happier. At this time, she was trying to help a gambling addict the night before. The patient solved the gambling account and was almost defrauded by a group of scammers to defraud her of the $6,000 casino, which radiated endless temptation to her. So, she rejected the teacher's idea of ​​inviting her to have a dinner, and went to the thief's den by herself.

Maggie was too confident in her calmness and wisdom, which made her neglect her own loneliness and anxiety. I even think that everyone's body hides the factors of being bad guys, but the lack of appropriate time to trigger them. The scammers and the casino meant to Maggie a fresh stimulus that was completely different from the dull and boring. Gradually, she changed from a doctor who actively helped patients with gambling addiction to a person who looked on and watched the scammers and deceived people, and finally developed For scammers directly involved in the scam. Of course, it is impossible for Maggie to be a winner in the scam set up by people who make a living by deception. When she paid out $80,000 for the love of the liar Mike, she became the most complete loser in the scam. Obviously he was tricked into selling by those people, and stupidly helped them count the bills.

The story did not end here, Maggie soon knew that she had been trapped, and took some measures actively. Later, she was very unwilling to set up a fairy jump anti-deception Mike who not only lied to her money but also lied to her beauty, he quickly recognized it. It seems that Maggie cheated Mike not for money, she just naively wanted Mike to beg her for something. Mike's words hit Maggie's death hole. Although Mike and the others live by deceiving, they have never harmed anyone. The people who were deceived by them even got some psychological satisfaction, and Ma Not only did Ji coax the patients helplessly every day, he also shot Mike with a gun at the moment. When Mike pointed out that Maggie was a real bastard and said that she would never return anything to her, Maggie shot Mike with tears.

The murderer Maggie was not brought to justice. Not only did she forgive herself for her murder, she also deceived the patients more vigorously. In the end, she became a thief... Some of the endings of Maggie mentioned above are clearly told to us by the movie. Some of them are my imagination, but what is certain is that Maggie has completely got rid of the previous depression and confusion, and she will be more comfortable and more at ease when she has completely turned into a badass.

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Extended Reading
  • Alvina 2022-03-17 09:01:06

    Ma Mei has a few shots in the movie he watched because he watched "Director's Homework", but the script is not smarter than the audience at all? Sometimes writing the protagonist as a fool will also treat the audience as a fool.

  • Katrine 2022-03-26 09:01:11

    It's good, but the movie is also like that con man, and the philosophical principle on the surface is just some bluff. That said, it's important to act well, no matter the liar or the director. People said afterwards that they spent so much thought and tricks to build a game, "it's realism".

House of Games quotes

  • Dr. Margaret Ford: You took my money.

    Mike: How naughty of me.

  • Dr. Margaret Ford: Beg for your life, or I'm going to kill you.