As unfortunately I have quite a long and bad gambling history I could definitely get the main character. Talented and maybe because of that not happy with a common life. Leading to wanting more and then little by little getting into this nasty ratrace of self-destruction where your whole life is about getting money....and then in an attempt to set things right losing it in one night. I recognize the attempt of shifting money around: loaning from person B to pay person A. I recognize the disappointing of the people that love you the most: girlfriend, family and friends. I recognize the dispair...the rope that getting tighter and tighter around your neck. Making you do things you never thought you would do and makes you despice yourself. I regret some unrealistic things . The strop-strategy (doubling till you lose) is not the strategy a gambler follows . And the ridicolous amounts people keep on loaning him, even knowing about his debts. All in all I liked the movie. But probably if you have no feeling with this insane gambling world, you would just say: what a stupid morron...and in fact you are right.
Review of The Gambler
