money and desire

Ali 2022-03-15 09:01:03

Too much like Kubrick's early noir film "The Killer", it is not only a group portrait depicting the general anxiety of the society, but also a practical teaching of a leveraged game. The surface narrative focuses on the capital premium brought by a distant opal. Competing with foreign powers, the failure of social moral standards and the disorder of universal value orientation are the deep expression of the film. The interweaving and derivation of money and desire are bonded into a spiritual coat of arms with destiny as the body. The shaping of all characters is brutal and maddening, and the most primitive violent tendencies of human beings are permeated everywhere. Everything is the inflation of mysterious rough stones.

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Uncut Gems quotes

  • High Roller: [rapidly] Last year I made 125 million dollars. I don't even know what to do with my money anymore. I have nobody to spend it with, nobody to enjoy my life with anymore. It's horrible! Today is the big day for me. I met you, you're hot! You wanna have a drink when we get there?

  • Gooey: This is A uh - KG, anh?

    Howard Ratner: Aw. Three for eleven? What the fuck?

    Gooey: Yeah, he looks tortured.

    Howard Ratner: That fuckin' guy tried to steal an opal from me.

    Gooey: Your opal? Your opal came?

    Howard Ratner: My opal came, yeah.

    Gooey: Yeah?

    Howard Ratner: Yeah, and stupidly I lend it to this motherfucker.

    Noah: No!

    Gooey: Whaddya mean? He took it, he stole it?

    Howard Ratner: He didn't steal it, he got carried away. He thinks it has magic powers.

    Noah: Magic powers?

    [Gooey laughs heartily]

    Howard Ratner: Yeah.

    Gooey: No.

    Howard Ratner: Well look. Look at him tonight, without it. He didn't have it tonight, look how fuckin' bad he played. He s- - He wants to own it. So, I tell him come to the auction, fuckin' make a bid for it, like everyone else.

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