revolver

guy ritchie directed this film, which in the end seems to be an allegory of the conscious mind vs. the ego. the bible says the proud shall fall. and the main character of this film is proud. he refuses to bow to the authority of the main mafia guy in town. (or at least the guy controlling the gambling.) so... is the movie worth seeing? i think so. there were moments i fast forwarded however. it seems appropriate that the (former) husband of madonna would direct a film about an allegory about the ego. at the end we learn from spiritual teachers that the ego, externalized, is what we think of as the devil. the film is about a man who's in prison, in solitary confinement, and the two people next to him are a con man and a chess master. a lot of the movie is about con games, about the way that in a chess game the master will feed pieces to the other person, make the other person feel powerful, before swooping in for the kill, to win the chess game.