What exactly is the purpose of the “game”?
>>216964479To watch one time and go "what a twist huh." and never watch again because there's no point otherwise since 100% of the plot revolves around the twist. The Sixth Sense is several movies by comparison.
>>216964479Life is also a game and at any moment life can change and or destroy you.Deep shit 80 tomatoes!
Only oldf*gs will get this haha XD good one OP!
>>216964559I see no problem. So what I'm old and bored!
>>216964479to be one of the dumbest fucking movies ever made. i like david fincher but this shit was retarded and gay.
to make you appreciate life, they pretty explicitly state this at the end of the movie
>>216964479The cover freaked me out as a kid, but the movie isn't really like that.
>>216964479>>216964514The point is trying to get the viewer to go from knowing it’s only a game, to having them second guess themselves and wonder whether or not CRS are legit criminals, just like the main character does.The only problem is there are events that happen that would only be possible if it were only a game (such as the TV scene in the beginning or the prop house) so as long as you’re not a braindead mongoloid, there is no plot twist.
>>216964882>The only problem is there are events that happen that would only be possible if it were only a game (such as the TV scene in the beginning or the prop house)Why wouldn't a crime organization cooking up an elaborate extortion scam be able to set those up? Seems to me that takes about the same amount of disbelief suspending to be believable as it takes for the actual prank ending
>>216964479You lost it
>>216964479it’s a mystery box movie from before lost made that into a genre.
>>216964882How many times have you seen The Game?
>>216964479to siphon money off bored middle aged millionaires
>>216965456If CRS were actually some crime syndicate rather than game company for the bored elite, at least one of their high-profile customers would have gone to the press to explain their lost wealth, and they would have been outed. As a game company, they could exist as a sort of an exclusive secret club.Their trick works on NVP because his increasing panic ends up clouding his better judgement, making it easier to suspend his disbelief - sort of like you said. Anybody, especially somebody as wealthy as NVP would know that all those giant withdrawals from his savings accounts would have raised red flags from the banks, but a panicked NVP isn’t in the state to reach that conclusion. The viewer on the other hand, who is simply watching this unfold, should easily realize this.As for the TV scene and house scene in particular: 1. NVP had likely been watching that guy on TV for decades; CRS would've needed to convince this guy who doesn’t even know the main character to help steal his money (given that Nick accepted Conrad’s referral in the first place). 2. By the time NVP reached Christine’s house, they had already stolen his money. The only reason they had to coax him into visiting Christine again was to have her explain the robbery (which would only happen in a game).
>>216966176actually two solid points. didn't think that much about those scenes, just went along with them kinda how NVP did I guess
>>216964479jeet phishing scam
>IT WAS ALL A RUSE YOU PATHETIC LITTLE ANT>FOR YOU SEE, I, THE LAND LORD WAS THE MASTERMIND THE ENTIRE TIME>EVERY SINGLE THING THATS HAPPENED TO YOU OVER THE LAST 24 HOURS WAS ORCHESTRATED BY ME AND MY INSANE MIND
>>216964479i think it's a psyop group designed so rich people don't feel so safe
>all you have to do is watch the movie 100 times>what are you an idiot dumbass dumbfuck benchod bloody bastard who no get it at first watchy?
they broke the cardinal rule of the competition they fell in love
In real life, companies like CRS provide services such as:>Italy investigates claims of tourists paying to shoot civilians in Bosnia in 1990shttps://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3epygq5272ohttps://archive.is/uS2Mu>paying Money to Murder: Russian Luxury Yachts Offer Pirate Hunting Cruiseshttps://matadornetwork.com/pulse/paying-money-to-murder-russian-luxury-yachts-offer-pirate-hunting-cruises/https://archive.ph/cVIImNemesis (2010) by Mark Millar also touches the same concept but not extensively. Red Rooms are the poor's man CRS.
read 'the magus' by john fowles and you still won't knowenjoy
To lose it
>>216966176His name was Nicholas Van Orton. You didn’t watch the movie.Also Daniel Schorr was acting like max headroom, glitching and stuttering occasionally, to convey the footage wasn’t actually Daniel Schorr talking directly to Nicholas Van Orton when he should’ve been broadcasting live on Bloomberg television.
>>216969657For some reason I thought his last name was Van Patten (maybe was mixing it up with American Psycho). I did watch this movie. Thanks for the correction.You could be right, but that would’ve been amazing technology back in 1997 - to get it to look and sound exactly like him with minimal glitches. With Max Headroom it was just a guy wearing a mask.
>>216964479Rewatched this recently. There’s not even a twist. He paid for a game and got one, the only twist is that he was too dumb to realize it
>>216964479>Sorry, bro. You were turning into such an asshole, I had to prank you.
>>216969769>you could be rightOnce CRS stops hijacking the tv schorr’s actual broadcast resumes mid-word. Put down the phone when watching movies
>>216970651or, you know, schorr just pre-recorded that day’s taping
when he says "I am extremely fragile right now" and pulls out a big revolver under the dude nose. kino.
Realistically he could easily have died or killed someone dozens of times during the "game". The bullshit they give him at the end about things always having been under control is simply retarded considering all we've seen. A twist so fucking dumb it invalidates the entire movie.
>>216972269Anon the curtain only lifts at the last minute, where suddenly there’s emergency response people everywhere and the glass of the roof he jumped through was replaced with safety/sugar glass. Half the point of the movie was the extensive “survey” they put him through so they could predict how he’d react and what he’d do. It’s a soft commentary on determinism.
To make you feel alive
>>216973386>It’s a soft commentary on determinism.or how cognitive studies can predict human behavior and personalize a tailor-made experience.
I just lost.
>>216972269People are dumb when they let complaints like this somehow invalidate what is a fun psycho thriller that doesn't need to have zero plot holes. Its a movie thats thrilling and entertaining and it doesn't need to be perfect
>>216973386Damn they sure were good at predicting that he would jump off the roof in that precise spot, and not a few inches to the left or to the right that would have caused him to break all his bones on the steel beams of the structure (we see them clearly when he goes through the glass, he just happens to fall right in the middle). That was really very well thought out and smart and not contrived horseshit like the entire fucking movie.
>>216973386>glass of the roof he jumped through was replaced with safety/sugar glasslucky he hit exactly where they wanted him to and not another foot in any direction and slammed into the metal structuring.
>>216973667Again, its a fucking movie bro, its called suspension of disbelief, you presume that they know the range at which a man of his weights body would extend as far, this isnt a fault in the movie but a nitpick of an autistic viewer who thinks movies have to make perfect logical and scientific sense
>>216964479It's just rich people dicking around.
>>216973667>if you hadn’t jumped I was supposed to throw you offread: if he was walking the wrong way the actor would’ve ran after him and started yelling about murdering his brother and ruining what was just a prank before throwing him in the correct place.
>>216973435Hence why it’s “soft” commentary. For that’s soft science.
>>216964479There's a book by Dylan O'Brien about this game.
>>216973677>luckydespite what you might like to believe, once you jump off something you fall straight down.
>>216974330yes you are correct.
