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Revolver
How is it that I keep downloading the biggest mindfuck movies. For anyone who's seen and understands this, mind enlightening me on what in God's name I just witnessed? There was almost two hours of complete incomprehension. I'm going to have to watch it again on the off chance that it will all suddenly hit me ._.
Its a chess game..I think. He gets played by the two guys, several people represent chess pieces. The two unknown guys are the same through out the movie and play Jake as a pawn in every sense. At the same time Jake is playing another game of Chess against Gold who is him, but also a metaphor for evil or the evil in the self. But somehow Gold is physically manifested as a illness that is killing Jake, that goes away when Jake realizes the games are the same and that he's a pawn in it and has the ability to change that and become the player. Jake and you are supposed to realize that the two guys from the prison that said they would help him did, not by breaking him out of the physical prison but rather by setting him up to break out of his mental one.
Its rather poorly executed all in all. The idea is interesting they just don't explain shit well.
Description does make sense. I thought the two guys may have been self-manifestations, similar to Tyler Durden in Fight Club. The protagonist was also extremely confusing, but I'm assuming by your description that he eventually went crazy due to being played by Jake, like a pawn?
Only rated 6 on imdb, and I can see why. Seems that they've just thrown so many curveballs at you, it's overly complicated. It was almost like they were trying to achieve the affect Fight Club delivered, where at the end comes sudden realization. The difference between the two movies is that for the first 80%, FC is actually relatively normal, but this movie from the start is crazy.
I love how all psychological thrillers get compared to Fight Club.
Memento is also a pretty cool movie of this genre. Then there's Donnie Darko, which is just strange.
Yeah kind of. Here is more detailed analysis:Quote:
Originally Posted by Artificial
Protagonist is Jake, he almost dies, goes crazy, then is not crazy. Because the Gold dude that is him in his head is some how physically manifested in the world but also just in his head. It is just a ton of curve ball plot lines thrown into a blender.
Jake tell two dudes in prison all about himself and where his money is, they tall him about the ultimate con and chess. Two dude promise to help him break out. They then break out and take his money, Jake is now pissed. But remember the lesson the dudes taught him "You only get better at the game by playing people better than you". Jump two years forward, Jake gets out and applies new knowledge to gambling and get rich, then confronts random adversary and humiliates him, while the Gold guy's name gets tosses around some and kind of tells you he's uber bad ass evil guy. Then random dude shows up and talks to Jake and lead him to two guys from prison ,you never really get to know who they are, tell him he's infected with some crazy thing that will kill him and make him do stuff for them and protect Jake from guy he humiliated earlier. Eventually Jake has moral conflict with killing someone that the two dudes tell him to and he says he won't do it. In this he realizes that two dudes are playing him in a game against everybody else you've seen thus far. He ask why they say "You only get better at the game by playing people better than you". Jake has freakout thing and realizes Gold dude is in his head and that he has just been a pawn in a big game of chess up till this point in life. Armed with this knowledge he procedures to fuck the world up because he wants to and for revenge it would seem.