My problem with this film
This is a pretty decent movie that I enjoyed watching, but there is something that I was thinking about after finishing that movie that I can't put to rest. Maybe someone can give me a sufficient answer to solve my problem, but I doubt it.
The problem I have is with the photographs. If by taking a picture of a person or by owning a persons photograph that means that you get that persons luck then that causes a lot of conflicts with one of the major parts of the film. The only way for the film's plot to work is if each person whose luck was used by taking their picture only has one photograph of them in existence. But the truth is that there is no way that, that is possible. In almost all cases there has to be at least more than one photograph of a person in existence. School photographs , graduation photos, wedding photos, etc. that are given to different family members. So then, is that person's luck split up and divided between each person who owns the subject's photograph? Also, if photographs were the thing that people wager in this gambling ring what is to stop a person from just getting a whole bunch of photos of people in other ways such as working as a professional photographer who does headshots for school albums for instance?
I like the idea of stealing peoples luck and the gambling thing where the luckiest person would win some money. I just wish that the filmmaker had thought of a different way to have the people attain others luck.