A poker player (not a gambler) who sneers at Lao Qian completely relying on his skills, such a character setting actually shows the core of this film. This is a film about self-analysis and self-choice, dreams and pursuits.
Norton's character worm, which is extended to maggots, actually represents the temptation of shortcuts on the road he pursues, corrupting his own stubborn diseases and criticizing them, which is the opposite of being cute and even everyone living with each other. It's like the flaws in everyone, laziness, procrastination, everything that makes people comfortable with the status quo, petrified. For Mike, worm once became him (the corresponding plot is the two people who made a gambling game when they were students through a monologue in the film), and it was him who lost (keep making trouble for Duomeng), and finally Duomeng finally reluctantly stripped it off. . Therefore, the final positioning for Norton's character is that the painful test, although it brought him trouble and even life worries, it also promoted Mike's nirvana.
The role of jo represents tradition, family, or by extension, bondage. She represents deep love and worry, but an incomprehensible existence. Therefore, in the pursuit of the ideal and the indomitable process, we have to keep giving up. But at the end, jo said, "call me, if u need a lawyer", although family and love cannot move forward with ideals, they will always be behind you and support you when you lose everything.
The professor represents the rational and wise, and armed Mike with his thoughts. It can even symbolize the maturity of Mike's own mind. If worm represents stripping, then professor represents the sublimation of consciousness.
The role of KGB is very interesting, and it is even more brilliant under the interpretation of Markovic. KGB literally means Russian gangsters. But after thinking about it, what department, the intelligence department, the KGB can be understood in the film as not only all the resistance of the outside world to the ideal, but also as the fear of self-imagination. Fear always comes from one's own, and in the title Mike fearlessly challenged it, but he failed miserably. But after peeling off the worm, balancing the family, and gaining sanity, Mike can finally face his fears anew and overcome obstacles on the ideal road.
So, Mike finally won the gamble and won himself back. Finally got on a plane to vegas. Just like vegas is the holy land for all gamblers, why not every ideal person yearn for the other side of his ideal? Although...
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