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Suspension of disbelief

posted 12 years ago by texagander
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Normally, I am very good about suspending my disbelief. I tend to get a little annoyed with people that focus on some detail and let it prevent them from enjoying an good movie.

But this time, I was the jerk that couldn't stop complaining about what I thought made no sense.

Alright. So, these are the luckiest people in the world, right? So, what do they need to gamble for? or attempt bank robberies?

Luck (as I believe it is presented in this story) is not something that you only have when you are gambling or surviving accidents. It follows you wherever you go. If you are the luckiest person in the world, it should seem as though the universe is constantly lining things up personally for you.

But, in this movie, it comes and goes. If wealth benefits tomas, he would have it regardless of whether he robbed banks or won at gambling; with luck such as his, it should just come to him in whatever random fluke ways. Instead, he fails robberies, the woman he loves dies (I think she did, I am starting to forget), and the first time he tries to call her he gets tapped. If he had a little luck, he probably would have hung up the phone before he was tapped.

Remember when Harry Potter drank that good luck potion. That is what it looks like when you are the luckiest person in the world; every single (seemingly random) event works to your gain.

Other than that; I thought the movie was quite good. But, dang if I wasn't too stubborn to get past this one problem. Maybe, If I watched it again, I would see that all the "bad" things that happen to tomas were to his benefit. Didn't seem like it at the time, though.

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[–] eric-280 12 years ago

What I got from it was that their "luck" worked only on truly random events such as dice rolls, card draws, or who the bug landed on. In the other cases you mention people were actively directing effort against them so their luck didn't help much if at all.

This is just my interpretation; I've no idea if this was what was intended.

[–] texagander 12 years ago

thanks for responding to my rant:) that deserves some sort of response

I suppose i think there is enough constant and true randomness to not need to set up the gambles. oh well. On to other movies.

Latest movie i been recommending is Tucker and Dale vs Evil on netflix stream. ah yeah!

[–] Frack_TJ_Mackey 8 years ago

I don't understand how you have a problem with this to be honest. Being lucky doesn't mean you don't have to do anything in life. Maybe he could've won the lottery, but maybe he wasn't playing.

Maybe he could've been lucky in a test, but he never studied. Not even luck could save him...

Getting a good job is not only being lucky. You must be prepared for that job. It's not purely random.

If wealth benefit tomas...

Why/how is wealth going to do so? Maybe too much wealth could be unlucky, right? According to Aristotle too much luck is bad luck, so...

it should seem as though the universe is constantly lining things up personally for you.

I don't think that's luck. That is something else, magic maybe?

You have to start somewhere. Seems like with your perspective, he doesn't even need to do the shopping because somebody is going to forget a bag of groceries at his front door.

The woman she loves doesn't die. He tells her he doesn't love her when he feels she might die. I think it's the moment when he realizes he has the "gift".

And he robs a bank and the gets away with it. Lucky, isn't it?

I think is still a great movie. And I like it every time I watch it.