does anyone know what guy ritchie`s revolver is about?

Answer 1

well...

The film’s rhythm, theme and photography captivated me from the start and has urged me to watch it over and over again and seek to understand it better. Thanks to Ihatebillgates and Pasitaluck for their insights, they are complementary and I hope to summarize their ideas with a pinch of salt from myself.

In essence it depicts the fight between Mr. Gold and Avi/Zack for Jakes soul. It takes the form of a real life chess game taking place in a fictitious city somewhere between the east and west. As a westerner Mr. Gold is the Devil, driven by greed and pride, and Avi/Zack are Jacks guardian angels. Under an eastern philosophy they are helping Jake reach Nirvana by freeing himself from earthly feelings, embodied as Mr. Gold.

I have often heard that the biggest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing everyone he didn't exist. In the film he is in every character, particularly in Jake and Macha who embody his principles, mainly greed and pride. The city is the board, and the devil is continually playing against himself through the different power hungry characters. This has one fundamental flaw, as we are told the first rule of chess "the only way to get smarter is by playing smarter opponents". As the devil is continually playing himself he is not getting any better. Avi and Zack realise this and seek to get smarter not by facing other opponents but by fighting the Mr. Gold inside them. It is probable that they arranged to be placed in isolation in prison, just as Buddhist monks seek meditation, to help them focus on their inner battle. It was voluntary; they had an escape plan all along.

We never see Mr. Gold, we only hear him when he speaks in Jake’s and Macha’s heads. But Mr. Gold is not just the "little" devil in every character as he "owns" the city, he is the one who has set down the rules of the game and started it. The game has a structure, the board is the city, the pieces are the characters, the rules are money, greed, pride, etc. But there are additional rules, chess like rules, like that a king cannot place it self in a position where it can be killed. These chess like rules are fundamental to my understanding of the plot. The film is littered with chess allusions, I particularly like the recurrence of squared motifs in the scenes, the colour code specially in clothes and the dialogues, i.e. Macha: Very skilful Mr Green, you pawn your talents very well" (initial Jake Macha scene).

At a more mundane level the film follows the story of Jake Green, and how he seeks revenge on Macha for the death of his brother’s wife and the time he spent in jail. Avi and Zack meet him in jail, they had already spent quite a time in there and where thinking that it was time to challenge Mr. Gold. They pin their sights on Jake who opted for 7 years solitary and obviously has a strong Mr. Gold inside him. So for 5 years they work on him, they feed his Mr. Gold with the "magic formula" whilst at the same time learning all they needed to know. They also take pity on him and work on a plan which will include revenge on Macha. When Jake leaves prison he seeks revenge in his own way against the Three Eddies, turning Macha against them. In the mean time Avi and Zack are working on a more subtle plan to turn Macha's Mr Gold against himself.

The real chess game starts when Jake walks into Macha's casino, seeking revenge with a "little humiliation and money loss". This is the Mr. Gold inside him speaking, to the devil humiliation and money loss is the worst thing which can happen or can be done to anyone. This will be recurrent in the film, as Avi and Zack also plan to use humiliation and money loss to win over Jake and defeat Mr. Macha's Gold. Unfortunately for Jake, the move on Macha is not a clever one as Macha immediately decides to have him killed.

Now is when the chess interpretation is essential, Avi and Zack are playing Blacks, and Jake is their king. Mr. Gold is playing White, and his king is Macha. This interpretation can be taken further, with Avi being a Queen and Zack a rook (con man = crook), on white's side Sorter is probably its Queen and Paul is a Bishop (right hand). Other characters have similar interpretations. Please read pasitaluck's and other's interpretation here (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0365686/board/nest/45891493). Crucial to the story is that Jake, as king, cannot be killed, and Avi/Zack will ensure it.

As Jake leaves the casino he meets Zack and subsequently faints. He is told that he has a rare blood disease and has three days to live. We could argue that this is a con set up by Avi/Zack to control him, but I rather prefer the chess interpretation that Macha is pissed of and has decided on a fast 3 move check with his queen (Sorter). If Jake doesn't agree to Avi and Zack's help he will be checkmated. Crucially, I like the idea that just like a king in chess, Jake cannot be killed by Macha or his goons, but the rules of the game in this fictitious city/game will ensure that he dies due to the illness, probably killing himself, just as in chess one topples the king to signal that he has been defeated. However Macha thinks Jake is a pawn, that he is an "employee", and expects Sorter to deal with him. Surprisingly, sorter fails 3 times, and even he doesn’t understand it. Jake is Avi/Zack's king, and sorter cannot kill him.

Avi and Zack are playing the real game against Mr. Gold and have foresight just as in chess a player knows he cannot do a certain move because he will be in check or because it can be disadvantageous. In this sense Avi and Zack appear to have supernatural powers. Later in the movie we see Jake coming out of a building and being run over by a car, next the scene starts again but he gets a call from Avi/Zack which stops the accident. Jack, though king, is just another piece in the game who is being directed in as far as he is controlled by Mr. Gold and does not understand the true nature of the game in which he is involved. I used to think that Avi/Zack where literally guarding/avenging angels, but they don’t have powers beyond the nature of the game. They can likewise be seen as having reached Nirvana and being enlightened, or like in Plato's metaphor about the philosopher who could escape the dark cave in which humanity lived and see the light of the world outside, only to return and do things and explain concepts which the cave dwellers could not comprehend.

Finally Jake, with Mr. Gold inside him, accepts that his only way out is to follow Avi and Zack’s guidance. During the next three days they make him loan all his money to desperate businessmen with little chance of paying it back. Jake is convinced he is going to die, but finds it surprisingly difficult and hurting to give it away. He literally looks like an addict weaning out the habit, Avi and Zack are starving his Mr. Gold, they plan to give it a sever blow "nothing hurts more than humiliation and a little money loss". As Avi explains, he gives money not because it is good but because it hurts the Mr. Gold inside him. Gradually Jakes is weaned from his addiction and looses his greed; Avi and Zack test him, he refuses to take the old lady's dog and he refuses to shoot the debtor in the knee. He has lost his greed, he doesn’t care about getting his money back anymore. Please note that money, greed and PRIDE are heavily interrelated. In Mr. Gold’s world money and pride are interchangeable. In the chess narrative I feel that Jake's money represent some of black pawns being sacrificed, fooling Mr. Gold twice, first the one in Jake's head who doesn’t see it coming and later Macha’s Mr. Gold who think he has won when Jake donates the remaining cash in his name.

In the meantime Avi and Zack move to checkmate Macha’s Mr. Gold by stealing the drugs. In the first occasion it leads him to deal with the competition, Lord John, who has a Mr. Gold just as strong as Macha’s, and when they steal the drugs a second time we see both respond in exactly the same way. Though Lord John and Macha appear to be on opposite sides, they are both part of Mr. Gold's white pieces. Often in chess ones own pieces are in the way stopping from attacking or defending effectively and one only wishes that they could be taken out of the board.

As we are coming to the end, some clarification may still be necessary about Mr. Gold. He is like God, in the sense that Gods created the earth and man in his image, only that this time it is Mr. Gold as the devil, who created the city and the rules of the game of money, greed, power and competition. Mrs. Walker is possibly the most successful player in the game and she represents with respects to Mr. Gold the equivalent of the Pope to God (note the Vatican like sets surrounding Mrs Walker). She is the highest representation of Mr. Gold itself and just as Macha kills Lord John she will get to Macha for failing to deliver on his drug deal. Both Macha and Avi/Zack know this and it is the key of their strategy to force such a confrontation.



At the crucial scene where Avi and Zack are playing Golf on the attic, they finally answer Jacks questions and show him where his real enemy lies, he is hiding in his head, behind his pain, the pain from the death of his brothers wife's death and his imprisonment. He is no longer hiding behind his greed or his pride/money as they have already taken that away. They open Jake's eyes and tell him that he is still in a prison in as far as he is being controlled by Mr. Gold, and that he can only control real life by changing what controls him. It reminds me very much of the situation between Morpheus and Neo in Matrix, where Morpheus is trying to show Neo that he lives in a prison and that he has no freedom. He is able to take in the message because his Mr. Gold is already weakened and receives a severe blow when he realises Avi and Zack are smarter and is humiliated. Jake proceeds to donate the remaining money to hurt him further and to visit Macha and ask for forgiveness. Finally, he goes into the lift to face Mr. Gold in his weakest situation. Mr. Gold does not like close spaces, possibly as they remind him of the 7 years in prison powerless, and that is where Jake finally defeats him. When he comes out he is faced by Macha pointing a gun, but he doesn’t flinch and leaves. In the Chess interpretation, both Macha and Jake are kings, so they cannot kill themselves in the senses that a bishop or a knight can take a pawn. An alternative explanation to why Macha doesn’t shoot is that his Mr. Gold is perplexed by his calmness and lack of fear, Jake is breaking all the rules and Macha's Mr Gold is left defenceless short of being able to physically kill Jake.

Another Chess explanation given the above event is that of Jake starting as a pawn who gradually advances to whites back row and turns into a queen, i.e. the moment he triumphs over his Mr. Gold. Macha in turn, as a king, though holding a gun at Jake finds that he is the one who is afraid and not the other way round as it should be.

Next thing we see Sorter, whites queen, going off when Paul threatens to torture Jakes niece, killing most of Machas men in the process. There is no chess analogy here, other than the queen being obstructed by her own pieces and unable to protect the king. I rather like to think that just as there is a Mr. Gold inside everyone, there is also a Mr. Good there which ocassionnaly triumphs and breaks free. After all Avi and Zack managed to do so.

In the final scenes, Jake, Avi and Zack arrive at Machas casino to deliver the drugs. We see that Avi is a much better player and beats Jake at a quick game with a fantastic sacrifice of his queen. I confess that I have suffered such a move and it is totaly disconcerting. Jake comes up to meet Macha and the checkmate is done. Macha now sees the truth, that Jake had the drugs all along but that it is too late to make amends with Mrs. Walker. He has a death sentence just as Jake at the start and just as in chess when you know you have been defeated you topple the king, that is, Macha shoots himself, or rather Macha's Mr. Gold, as we never see the true Macha just as we only see the true Jake after he gets rid of his Mr. Gold. Macha sees no point in shooting the girl as he knows and sees that Jake is not afraid, that he is not playing by the rules of Mr. Gold: greed and pride.

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Conclusion

Avi and Zack having defeated their own Mr. Gold fulfil their promise to help Jake. They take just revenge on the real causes for his pain and suffering the Mr. Gold inside him and in Macha’s. However it is only a small victory as it is still Mr. Gold’s world. Perhaps in their next encounter they will attack Mrs Walker or fund a new religion to help humanity.

It is a mistake that this film has much in common with Fight club, as there are no imaginary characters here. Avi and Zack are definitely real and it is only from films like Mullholand drive that we seem to want to jump at such conclusions.

I hope that I am on target, at least I’m satisfied that I understand reasonably well this beautiful film which has proven to me one of the best master pieces made in the last few years as shown by the unequivocal fact that I have watched it 10 times already and many more to come. This is my main consideration for ranking a film, masterpieces like the Godfather I watch at least once a year.

Thanks again to Ihatebillgates and Pasitaluck for your own plot outlines, they have proven extremely useful and provide the core of this summary. I look forward to reading your comments.

Answer 2

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Answer 7

Nope. It's famous for being impossible to follow. It was very badly cut, Ritchie was looking confused when he came out of the premiere.

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Answer 10

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Answer 11

No and neither does he!