Gamblers tell you what this movie really means

Ezekiel 2022-11-05 01:12:07

Don't think this film is so complicated, let's keep it simple, there is only one meaning.

Efforts and resistance are useless, beauty and satisfaction come from God's reward. All you can do is keep betting on black over and over again.

A basketball player, a talented girl, three old loan sharks, and the strange car owner, rewarded him at the same time at the end. It's that simple.

As for why he was rewarded, then let me ask you, why did you always want to reward him with freedom so that he could say "fuck you" when you were watching a movie?

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The Gambler quotes

  • Jim Bennett: There was a student... just the other day... who said that my problem, if one's nature is a problem, rather than just problematic, is that I see things in terms of victory or death, and not just victory but total victory. And it's true: I always have. It's either victory, or don't bother. The only thing worth doing is the impossible. Everything else is gray. You're born... as a man... with the nerves of a soldier, the apprehension of an angel, to lift a phrase, but there is no use for it. Here? Where's the use for it? You're set up to be a philosopher or a king or Shakespeare, and this is all they give you? This? Twenty- odd years of school which is all instruction in how to be ordinary... or they'll fucking kill you, they fucking will, and then it's a career, which is not the same thing as existence... I want unlimited things. I want everything. A real love. A real house. A real thing to do... every day. I'd rather die if I don't get it. Did I just say that out loud?

  • Neville Baraka: What about your family?

    Jim Bennett: I got all I could get.

    Neville Baraka: Can I get the money from them? If I send you to Mexico, you know, 'Oh my God! I don't know what happened to him!' Get my friend Valario to mail 'em your dick.

    Jim Bennett: My family don't make the money because they pay up easily.

    Neville Baraka: Apparently that's genetic.