The Gambler is a play in which the two systems of Nietzsche’s art, heliotropism and alcoholism, are supposed to be present. We are always born to fantasize about the future, we are always born to dwell on the past, we are always born to have fun or to spend our days in depression, knowing that we are doomed to an unchangeable end. The beginning of the other ……

Since we came into the world, everyone is ready to fall, and some are ready to be converted; we are born as human beings, and since we fell to earth, excluding the instinct to live, we have been ready to fall, pride, envy, rage, sloth, greed, gluttony, lust, the seven sins, the most common sins; we tend more towards a return to the other, more reason, self-control, will, abstinence, etc. … Ever since we were freed from our most fundamental bondage to survival, we have always been tainted with all kinds of dependencies, both external and internal emotional, some sinking deeper, some returning to the right path.

The Gambler is a play in which the two systems of Nietzsche’s art, heliotropism and alcoholism, are represented. We are always born in the present and fantasise about the future, we are always born in the present and dwell on the past, we know that we are doomed to an end that cannot be changed but we are always in the present or in the past, we know that the beginning is good but we are always in the past or in the past. They are both intoxicating, but the two are intertwined as a whole, and after the extreme is the beginning of the other. ……

The dialogue between father and son at the beginning of the film, before the death of the relatives –

His father: I wonder how much you’d be worth if I hadn’t left you a legacy, who wants to trample everyone underfoot, is that hard to understand? What do you have in mind? Talk about your plans

Jim: I will do my best and you can go in peace.

His father: You’re the head of the family now, let’s see if you can do that.

Death is not to be feared, but the hardest thing to let go of is the attachment. The greatest fear is to leave suddenly, before we can say goodbye. What cannot be shed is the spiritual attachment, and we inherit the grace and admonition of those who have gone before us and pass it on. The Bible says: “God says, ‘Honour your father and mother’, and ‘He who curses his father and mother will be put to death. But you say, ‘Whoever says to his parents, “I have made an offering of what is due to you, he may dishonour them.”‘ This is how you have nullified the commandment of God through heredity.” (Matthew 15:4-6).

The rest of the book is devoted to Jim Bennett’s journey into the inexorable path of gambling and his entry into a moving underground casino, passing through levels, exchanging chips, being introduced to this “jungle” by underground “security”, passing through clouds and fog, taking the audience on a journey through the noisy abyss of lust.

By the time Bennett realises that his addiction to gambling is hurting those around him, he should have realised that it is not just affecting him, even if he is willing to fall into it himself. But since he already has a good job, a good income and a good reputation, what does he really feel? Was he born into a deep loss that was destined to die? I hate life because all the things I do under the sun I think are troublesome, they are empty, they catch the wind (Scripture). Please take a closer look at what he says and expresses, which is already evident in his separate conversations with the basketball student and in his arguments with his girlfriend….

Because of his addiction to gambling, that rising basketball student, a top five tennis student, his mother, his lover had already suffered as a result, when he lost all the money he had asked for from his mother, the argument with Phillips, to Phillips’ departure.

When the trap of playing fake football began to be implemented ready to start paying off his debts, he was already manipulating the bets, not that he deliberately instigated the students of the basketball star to play fake football, but that was also the idea of the basketball star, to enter the professional game, to earn money, to raise money for his mother and sister’s surgery and to support his family. With his ability, you can imagine him navigating between three debtors, borrowing money for gambling and eventually helping others. I think his gambling addiction to the end is a testament to his idea that life is a gamble in itself, and what you want to get with all that you are preparing for it.

The last part of the book is also about entering a moving underground casino; the final bet, when Bennett pulls the cash out of the bag, the people in the room are instantly silent, their faces astonished, it looks like a big gamble to the casual observer, even the head of the bookmakers and the big lenders in the room are shaken by the gamble, it’s either black or red, it’s either an endless abyss or a dangerous one. In the end, the hero runs from darkness to dawn, until he reaches his lover’s compound, and when he knocks on the door… It gives us an endlessly beautiful reverie, and in fact, up to this point, already symbolises the beginning of heliotropism. Although Nietzsche’s art to the extreme is nothingness, Nietzsche’s philosophy to the extreme is that God is dead and existence itself is meaningless. But personally, Nietzsche’s philosophy pushes the ‘individual’ to the extreme, ignoring the fact that the ‘individual’ exists alone, but not alone, and that we must love ourselves by loving others, and love others by loving ourselves. To exist is to exist in relation to emotions. Probably this is what families, nations and even human societies pass on and promote…. In fact, love for others or love for oneself is instinctive. The extreme of love for oneself is destruction, while the extreme of love for others is inheritance and continuity. It is said in the Bible, “Be filial to your parents, and love your neighbor as yourself.” (Matthew 19:19)

We use love to justify existence and existence to interpret the meaning of love.

Do not worry about what you eat or drink for your life, or what you wear for your body. Is life not better than food? Is not the body better than the garments? New Testament – Matthew’s Gospel

What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his life? What else can a man give in exchange for his life? New Testament – Mark

Be careful to guard yourselves from all covetousness; for a man’s life does not care about the abundance of his house. New Testament – Luke

If Jim Bennett’s family and lover Phillips are implicated in this, it can only be said that death and sacrifice are used to awaken Jim Bennett’s ego; or if Jim Bennett’s family and lover Phillips are implicated in this and Jim Bennett goes mad; or if Jim Bennett’s family and lover Phillips are implicated in this and Jim Bennett goes mad; or if Jim Bennett’s family and lover Phillips goes mad, it can only be said that Jim Bennett’s family and lover Phillips goes mad, or if Jim Bennett’s family and lover Phillips goes mad. Or if Jim Bennett’s family and lover, Phillips, are implicated in his death, and Jim Bennett kills himself after revenge or goes mad, or is put to death and smiles before he finishes his revenge; the ultimate in tragedy is comedy, and in Jim Bennett’s case, is that not another interpretation of rebirth? But that’s probably not what we want to see!

What I see after the whole piece is a nod to the beginning, that we do not judge people by their status, their position, their money, which should not be the purest of judgments, and how do we navigate fame and fortune anyway? In fact we are also harnessed by fame and fortune, the desire to trample all underfoot, to which we are all slaves, but where is the existence of our value if there is no love? Wouldn’t that be pushing it to the extreme into nothingness?

So post less of those negative and negative whining posts, you are not that bitter. Let go of the pathetic and damned emotions and wish for more, let’s live with anticipation in a mixture of pain and joy, we need positive energy!

May also ask why went to Vegas betting, should have won a lot of money, he borrowed another 150,000 to the Korean debtors, borrowed 260,000 to the loan shark big brother Frank’s, he owed a total of 15 + 26 + 6 + 26 = 730,000, the black moneylender said a sentence of someone in Vegas under the eight points, 200,000 gambling, 200,000 * 2 = 400,000, the Korean guy’s 150,000 Bennett directly to the basketball student The black lender was given 60,000 back and went to the casino and bet 400,000, 400,000 * 2 – 260,000 (Koreans) – 150,000 (Koreans) – 260,000 (Frank) = 130,000, and the final deduction for interest was about 100,000… , this explanation should make sense.

On the whole, it’s more like a kind of self-redemption, a kind of Nietzschean “drunkenness”.

The soundtrack of the film – “another wave from you” – gives the impression of breaking through the chains and constraints and running into the vast, beautiful, most genuine and purest wilderness of life.