Casinos are a business

Mark Twain once said: "The truth is more absurd than fiction, because fiction is carried out under a certain logic, and reality sometimes has no logic at all." Common sense tells us: "There is no winner if you gamble for a long time." But in the movie It happens to tell us that there is a group of people who can rely on mathematical calculations and extraordinary memory to "win" at the gambling table. How illogically wonderful things seem to be made up! It was only after reading the background information that I finally clarified that such an unreliable thing was really based on real events. There are really a group of people in the world who have done those things in the movie, but they are not so vivid.
When I finally realized that there really are such a group of gods in the world like in the movie, I began to worry about whether those casinos in the world would suffer heavy losses because of this, and I also began to envy and those gods "rolled money" because of this, and made great profits. . And I have always wondered, since it is gambling, can those places where there are many casinos, such as Macau and Las Vegas, will be able to "gamble for a long time without a winner" and lose everything? Later, a friend went to Las Vegas, and when he came back, he told us what he had seen and heard, and I gradually became enlightened.
Gambling in a place like Las Vegas is just entertainment for tourists, but for those who open casinos, it's a business. Of course, you need to make money when you do business. If you try to make money from others, they will try to get your money back. If people really can’t earn your money, they don’t have to play with you, they can even play with you. Play something else. The end of the movie seems to give a more tempting ending, but after reading the background information, the gods in the real world live incognito lives, I am afraid we can speculate that the money in the casino is not so easy to earn. The ending of the movie seems to be in line with the logic of people's good wishes and greed, but in the real world this is likely to be very unreliable.
It can be seen that the adaptation of the film should be drastic, the shadow of the prototype may have faded a lot, and it is more like a novel. I'm actually still very concerned about how the lives of the prototypes of those stories are now. After all, those illogical real lives are much more interesting than logically rigorous fabricated stories. I heard that there is an original non-fiction novel, and I have the opportunity to find it and read it.
This film can be regarded as a gambling film. Compared with the amazing gambling gods, gambling saints and gamblers in Hong Kong gambling films, the gambling skills in this film seem to be more technical. I don't know if this has anything to do with the cultural differences between the East and the West. Hong Kong gambling movies are more like martial arts movies, and this movie is more like a science fiction movie.

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