Yeah because that's something you can just get over, isn't it.
shareI didn't finish the movie because there were loan sharks and usually when people don't pay them money they will do a lot of things to those said people. It was getting scary so I stopped the DVD.
BTW I saw 2 actors of The Wire series. One played the loan shark and the other played the driver of Goodman.
I wouldn't say he just gets over it. The whole movie is the ordeal he has to go through to get over it. His grandfather leaves him nothing because he believes this will build character. The idea is that by the end of this movie, he has finally succeeded in doing so.
Goodman's character talks a lot about addiction and not believing it's not a matter of choice, and Wahlberg talks to his mother as well as the gangsters about whether it's possible to change. It's about existentialism and not really about a realistic portrayal of addiction.
I do agree with you that it's not very plausible, but the point it's trying to make isn't the one you're nitpicking.
Of course this is all assuming the main character is actually addicted to gambling. I think gamble was simply the character's attempt at bucking convention and saying f-it. I don't really think he was really so much a gambler as a person who was depressed and trying to find his place in the world. By the end of the movie, he's discovered what he's looking for.
sharePeople can get their *beep* together Jim.
I love the loan sharks rants.