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RE: Philip Seymour Hoffman

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jamesgarvin

In Reply to: RE: Philip Seymour Hoffman posted by delboy on March 06, 2008 at 00:53:05

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?

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Yes I do... - delboy 08:08:42 03/06/08 (0)
...and I did appreciate the subtlety of the performance from an addiction perspective, I just wasn't entertained by the film. I am not trying to demean it. I also do not rate Minnie Driver as an actress.

But yeah, if the character study carries it for you then it has value. And who better than PSH to portray that.

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