"Lucky Player": "Giving and Accepting" or "Losing and Winning" □Text / Vulcan Ji It may be more difficult for a person to defeat all opponents on the battlefield than to defeat himself in his own heart. To give up victory may be forgiveness; to give may be to receive. And maybe get more. I remember that Huang Zihua once said in his "Reckoning Before Autumn": Forgive, forgive everything. - Vulcan Ji. Inscription.
On a quiet street in the middle of the night, an emotion began to flood the entire reddish night sky; I suddenly wondered if it was love; or warmth. High gambling; feasting; busy traffic; prosperity is immortal. In the end, it will all be peaceful. Las Vegas has never been short of beauties and heroes. This is at least a different Las Vegas casino movie; it is also a warm and boring love story. There is not too much gunpowder and war, there is not too much prosperity, and there is not too much gorgeous noise; more is the late-night street with few pedestrians left, empty but very spacious houses, or people have not had time. Getting up in the middle of the night... These scenes that are a little desolate and quiet almost build most of the scene framework and plot development in this movie. In my opinion, this is not a big-budget audio-visual film; it seems to be very different from all the stories in the Las Vegas Las Vegas that we remember, and it is a completely two-style film. Perhaps because of this, this has become the biggest criticism of many people's bad reviews of this movie; but in my opinion, it is precisely this distinctive feature that has been criticized, which has created another commendable feature of this movie. . Because it is different and has a novel idea, it has a unique personality that an excellent movie should have, so it is unique and impressive in the numerous gambling movies or love movies. Perhaps, this is just a qualitative angle of the film. All the people who are disappointed with this movie actually regard it as a gambling movie; and since it is regarded as a gambling movie, it will inevitably be the same as the gambling movie that happened in Las Vegas before. Compare the gorgeous stories of the city, and then find that there is absolutely nothing in this film that is established and seems to have become routine, so it is inevitable to be disappointed. In fact, although this movie tells the story of a professional gambler and gambling, gambling is definitely second to none in this movie, and it only appears in this movie as a carrier. The transformation of human nature, the sublimation of life and the call for the return of family and love are the most important things in this film. This is more like a warm love movie, but also a warm family movie; although this story takes place in Las Vegas, although the protagonist has been gambling, but this cannot be so simple and clear to put this The film is characterized as a gambling film. Billie, played by Drew Barrymore, delivers the film's most important line of dialogue with one of the most casual words, telling Huck's father that "give and take" is much harder than "lose and win" . When I heard this sentence, I was very surprised, because I never thought that I would hear such a philosophical sentence in such a movie. To win, you can't be soft-hearted. These are the extremely rational values of Huck, who believes in winning with technology; as a professional gambler, all he has to do is calm, as well as extremely delicate calculations, and never miss any opportunity to place his bets to win the maximum. profit. Billie is the complete opposite. In her eyes, everything is full of curiosity and vitality, and she intuitively believes in everything she sees. She is an extremely emotional romantic. The movie starts off with a flamboyant win at the poker table, and then Huck meets Billie. This is a dazzling spark of realism and romanticism intertwined; it is also a film in which romanticism triumphs over realism. From the meeting between the two, Huck began to be influenced by Billie. Perhaps, love always opens the most direct and convenient way of all roads to redemption. The movie spends a lot of time depicting Huck's entire process from losing to winning to losing at the gambling table; it's a straight-line depiction of "lose and win". And at the end of the movie, in the gamble that he deliberately lost to his father, it seemed to me that he really won. Influenced by Billie, perhaps, the loser depicted in the movie with a curved pen is the biggest winner. Giving is how much more you have to endure. This may be the true meaning of "giving and receiving". At the end of the movie, it's not the heroic victory we once thought it was, but Huck gave up the technical victory he had longed for for many years to complete his family and love, and gave it to an elderly man. The last wish and a possible hope in a gamble. Losing a gamble that he should have won has ushered in a new life; can we say, he is a loser. When Huck used his softened heart to give kindness and consummate courage, he might have received more. Gambling instead of gambling; love not love. This is the most criticized part of the film. But in my opinion, this is the best part of this movie. There have been too many gambling films and love films, and we have watched too many. It is actually difficult to excel in a subject that has been interpreted and performed many times; on the contrary, it is easier to position a nondescript like this Making a successful film makes it easier to attract people's attention and make achievements. The love between Billie and Huck is so quiet and touching. The philosophical dialectics of "give and receive" and "lose and win" also endow the film with a new height, at least because of the existence of such a dialectical relationship, the film has stepped out of the haze of gambling films and romance films. Create your own sky. It's hard to be a winner, but when we have victory in our hands, we give up the desire to win and choose to lose, which may be much harder than winning. From this perspective, "lose and win" is the realm of a strong man, while "give and receive" is the realm of a philosopher. The seemingly innocent Billie got the true meaning early in her life, but Huck had to go through many hardships to get it. It can be said that from an actor's point of view, no matter whether I like Drew Barrymore, the training giant Eric Bana, or the Oscar-winning actor Robert Duvall, there is not a very good performance. However, this is still an excellent film. When a film that is not very commercial is placed in front of us, it can give us a warm feeling and an endless tastelessness. What more can we ask for. It's hard to be a winner, but when we have victory in our hands, we give up the desire to win and choose to lose, which may be much harder than winning. From this perspective, "lose and win" is the realm of a strong man, while "give and receive" is the realm of a philosopher. The seemingly innocent Billie got the true meaning early in her life, but Huck had to go through many hardships to get it. It can be said that from an actor's point of view, no matter whether I like Drew Barrymore, the training giant Eric Bana, or the Oscar-winning actor Robert Duvall, there is not a very good performance. However, this is still an excellent film. When a film that is not very commercial is placed in front of us, it can give us a warm feeling and an endless tastelessness. What more can we ask for. It's hard to be a winner, but when we have victory in our hands, we give up the desire to win and choose to lose, which may be much harder than winning. From this perspective, "lose and win" is the realm of a strong man, while "give and receive" is the realm of a philosopher. The seemingly innocent Billie got the true meaning early in her life, but Huck had to go through many hardships to get it. It can be said that from an actor's point of view, no matter whether I like Drew Barrymore, the training giant Eric Bana, or the Oscar-winning actor Robert Duvall, there is not a very good performance. However, this is still an excellent film. When a film that is not very commercial is placed in front of us, it can give us a warm feeling and an endless tastelessness. What more can we ask for.
2007-09-16; Ding Hai Year Ji You Yue Gui Chou Day. P.S.: Movie information extension link. ■Title: "Lucky You" ■Translation: "Lucky Player" | "Ace Blackjack" ■Director: Curtis Hanson ■Screenwriter: Eric Roth | Curtie Curtis Hanson Starring: Drew Barrymore | Eric Bana | Robert Duvall Genre: Drama Duration: 124 minutes ■ Country: United States ■ Language: English ■ Color: Color ■ Mixing: Dolby Digital Surround ■ Release: Warner Bros. Pictures ■ Release: May 4, 2007 (United States)
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