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RE: Philip Seymour Hoffman

Posted by jamesgarvin on March 6, 2008 at 06:58:27:
With all due respect, and I have to sound like Tin here, but you may have missed the point of this film. Most films are about gambling, showing gamblers either winning big, or loosing big, because the gambling is what the film is about. This film is unique, in that it really is about the addiction. He did not want to win. He did not want to loose. If he wanted to win money, he would have quit while he was ahead. The film was a character study about the addicted gambler, not the gambling. The vice could have been alcohol or sex and it would still have been a great charachter study. So, yes, the outcome is predictable, but the brilliance of the film is the journey it takes to get there. You do know that it was based upon true events?