The narrative perspective used by Martin Scorsese in "Las Vegas" is confusing: the film begins with a terrible car explosion, but the seemingly dead protagonist Sam (Robert De Niro) Become the teller of the story in the way of voice-over. The audience can only accept this setting, so when Nicky (Joe Persie) joined as another narrator, the audience more or less sentenced him to death. But the end was not the case. Sam and Nicky survived and the other died tragically. This dual-narrative trick frivolously erases the boundary between life and death, making the linearity of time and the closely related plans, goals, values, and all teleology meaningless. This is the logic of gambling-it doesn't care about logic. All kinds of extreme and contrasting things co-exist here, and it can even be said that Las Vegas itself is a contradiction. A highly rationalized casino is the same thing as an extremely desolate and primitive desert. Baudrillard has already told us about this in America. From this, we can understand why the calculating protagonists fell into irrational madness, and why the orderly expansion of the casino was destroyed overnight. This is not an accident, but a necessity, a necessity in the sense of a computer program.
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