Can someone explain Jani's bruises to me? It seems as if she faked them - when they meet in the hotel room. Her shiner is gone, her arm is fine, and it seems to even dawn on Jack (or Jake?) that she lied about them. What was her reason for doing that?
shareThe reason she faked them was to convince Jack she was in a lot of danger so he would be more likely to help her.
shareAh, I also noticed that. I think she did this in order to convince Jack/JAke she was in deep trouble.'Next time it'll be my neck' I think they were definitely a fake, a setup... Don't forget Jani was sent by Jack's father, she was engaged (to JAck's dad), the ring was a real engagement ring, not to keep the flies off...
shareThat part kind of confused me...I figured the bruises were to make him think she was in danger but the rest of the plotline was almost escaping me...kind of like if you think about it too hard, it goes. But he figured out there was something odd about her bruises, so why didn't he seem to mind?
shareI think he did mind (as much as Jack minded about anything)... he said that they shouldn't see each other again. But he also kind of loves hustlers and gamblers so he kisses her goodbye.
But Jack doesn't like hustlers and gamblers (why he doesn't sleep with Jani when she is nake in front of him giving him all the clues). Jack knew it was a setup. He needed it for Jake and the book.
shareI was suprised he didn't think anything of it because it seemed obvious she was lying about the bruise/hand.
shareKinda surprising, except I think his "narrator" self had already firmly stated "ALL gamblers are LIARS!"... so I think he expected nothing less. Remember how she kept referring to him as an "honest" man, which in this context just meant that he was NOT himself a gambler, and thus RELIABLE.
shareThe narrator is unreliable. We see him sat at the table writing the book and we hear him say a character has disappeared, by being written out of the plot. The story resembles the psychology of gambling - if you play, you lose (i.e. if you try to understand the plot you miss the point). In this case if you try to make one part of the plot fit with another it won't. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Invention_of_Morel I thought that it was akin to this.
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It's been a year since I saw Croupier for the first time on DVD. Jani (Alex Kingston) may had a gambling debt and owed a loan shark and instead of getting killed or having her fingers cut off. They just beat up her for not paying off her debt.
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I think it did dawn on Jack that she hadn´t been playing fair with him, but by that point he´d apparently decided to go through with it anyway.
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