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		<title>By: ann</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2011 17:51:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I agree with JT. Without knowing much about the Buddhist faith, it is very apparent that the movie is laced with symbolism and sub text. Brilliant Mr Ritchie!!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I agree with JT. Without knowing much about the Buddhist faith, it is very apparent that the movie is laced with symbolism and sub text. Brilliant Mr Ritchie!!!</p>
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		<title>By: Christo</title>
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		<dc:creator>Christo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 22:06:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>All men will find God, dead or alive, Ritchie a morden day prophet,a nother brother and son of GOD!</description>
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		<title>By: Ivanchus</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ivanchus</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 04:52:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I can&#039;t believe none of you really got the movie. It&#039;s not a comedy, it&#039;s not a action film. You should not try to judge it as a movie either. The movie is just an excuse (the choice between the red or blue pill in The Matrix, comes to mind) to make you think about this amazing concept: most of us waste too much energy trying to look smart, be accepted by our peers, etc. It&#039;s all about accepting that most of the problems we get into are because we refuse to admit that we made a bad choice, because admitting that would make us look like fools. It&#039;s all about the ego. It&#039;s the ego speaking into one&#039;s ears who makes us do silly things, many times, horrible, stupid things, just because we don&#039;t take our time to take a breath, think things over and admit we have been foolish and it&#039;s time to take the few chips left and go home. Of course, this has profound implications in every days life, and the mind refuses to accept this simple truth. I had to watch this movie many times to let the concept sink in.
The first part of the movie is just about indulging us in the mentality that the ego likes most. That&#039;s why all those smart-ass phrases about winning are there. But Ritchie gives us hints about the only reason he had to make this movie up front, when he states right in the opening titles &quot;The greatest enemy will hide in the last place you would ever look&quot;. &quot;Inside yourself&quot; would be the corollary. Also, near the end, “The only real enemy to have ever existed, is an eternal one”. Our own mind, of course. And “Your friends are close, but your enemy is closer”. Within you, your enemy is yourself (or better yet, a part of you, your ego). Let&#039;s say the movie itself is a con. You decided to watch a movie, but got a fundamental truth about the mind instead. And maybe that&#039;s why most people reject the movie: their minds refuse to accept they have been fooled. And precisely because the movie is only about this fundamental concept that a script is not really needed, once you got into the movie and most concepts have been introduced, Ritchie decides to drop the mask, forget about following any scripts and show what the movie is really about.
Brilliant. Mind blowing.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I can&#8217;t believe none of you really got the movie. It&#8217;s not a comedy, it&#8217;s not a action film. You should not try to judge it as a movie either. The movie is just an excuse (the choice between the red or blue pill in The Matrix, comes to mind) to make you think about this amazing concept: most of us waste too much energy trying to look smart, be accepted by our peers, etc. It&#8217;s all about accepting that most of the problems we get into are because we refuse to admit that we made a bad choice, because admitting that would make us look like fools. It&#8217;s all about the ego. It&#8217;s the ego speaking into one&#8217;s ears who makes us do silly things, many times, horrible, stupid things, just because we don&#8217;t take our time to take a breath, think things over and admit we have been foolish and it&#8217;s time to take the few chips left and go home. Of course, this has profound implications in every days life, and the mind refuses to accept this simple truth. I had to watch this movie many times to let the concept sink in.<br />
The first part of the movie is just about indulging us in the mentality that the ego likes most. That&#8217;s why all those smart-ass phrases about winning are there. But Ritchie gives us hints about the only reason he had to make this movie up front, when he states right in the opening titles &#8220;The greatest enemy will hide in the last place you would ever look&#8221;. &#8220;Inside yourself&#8221; would be the corollary. Also, near the end, “The only real enemy to have ever existed, is an eternal one”. Our own mind, of course. And “Your friends are close, but your enemy is closer”. Within you, your enemy is yourself (or better yet, a part of you, your ego). Let&#8217;s say the movie itself is a con. You decided to watch a movie, but got a fundamental truth about the mind instead. And maybe that&#8217;s why most people reject the movie: their minds refuse to accept they have been fooled. And precisely because the movie is only about this fundamental concept that a script is not really needed, once you got into the movie and most concepts have been introduced, Ritchie decides to drop the mask, forget about following any scripts and show what the movie is really about.<br />
Brilliant. Mind blowing.</p>
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		<title>By: Maximo1970</title>
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		<dc:creator>Maximo1970</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 09:53:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I wanted to share my simple perspective.
I watched this movie about two years ago and have watched several times since then.
This movie is all about egos and the things (mistakes we make) we do to keep them.
It shows all the different gluttonies we allow ourselves to become distracted by.
Pride/ego leading the way, Money, food, alcohol, sex and drugs (I’m sure I missed one or two)
They are all distractions that keep us from reaching a higher state of mind.
Peace OUT!

JF</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I wanted to share my simple perspective.<br />
I watched this movie about two years ago and have watched several times since then.<br />
This movie is all about egos and the things (mistakes we make) we do to keep them.<br />
It shows all the different gluttonies we allow ourselves to become distracted by.<br />
Pride/ego leading the way, Money, food, alcohol, sex and drugs (I’m sure I missed one or two)<br />
They are all distractions that keep us from reaching a higher state of mind.<br />
Peace OUT!</p>
<p>JF</p>
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		<title>By: Matt</title>
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		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 20:39:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s the worst film I&#039;ve ever seen. All you people who criticised this review and called the guy &quot;dumb&quot; why don&#039;t you instead use your impressive grasp of the language and superior intellect to explain this piece of codshit to us inferior souls?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s the worst film I&#8217;ve ever seen. All you people who criticised this review and called the guy &#8220;dumb&#8221; why don&#8217;t you instead use your impressive grasp of the language and superior intellect to explain this piece of codshit to us inferior souls?</p>
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		<title>By: harry</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 20:13:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>well unlike most of you i half understood it on my first runthrough simply by guessing the small but significant twists but guy ritchies downfall is why make a film people dont understand so will disagree with, just plain think its shit in the film pay attention to the little things like when there in prison you see the blurred shots of the people in the opposite cells you can see a chess board and a cigar add these up.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>well unlike most of you i half understood it on my first runthrough simply by guessing the small but significant twists but guy ritchies downfall is why make a film people dont understand so will disagree with, just plain think its shit in the film pay attention to the little things like when there in prison you see the blurred shots of the people in the opposite cells you can see a chess board and a cigar add these up.</p>
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		<title>By: Excalibur &#124; FilmDailies.com - A filmmaker's blog</title>
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		<dc:creator>Excalibur &#124; FilmDailies.com - A filmmaker's blog</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2010 07:14:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] the commercial disaster that was Revolver (check out the Revolver explanations!), Guy Ritchie moved on to Hollywood projects. Sherlock Holmes [...]</description>
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		<title>By: disco</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 13:32:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well, I loved the movie. But I guess one understand it better when you have some spiritual background.

So here is a question for you guys:
1. When you have an internal dialgue (Ego) is it possible for you to realise that you are having this conversation.
2. When you feel some emotions like greed or anger is it possible for you to realise that you are having this emotion.

So that means you can see that you are thinking and that you are feeling the emotions. So the question is who knows this?
If you are the mind(or Ego) or the emotion you cannot realise this. Because one cannot observe the system if he is the system. You have to be outside teh system to see the system example the Ego. So that means you are not the Mind.

All of us have a story running in our head...I am from this country, I am a man, i don&#039;t like this, i like that, i hate this, these are my values etc. When we were kids we had diffrent opinons and values. We also looked different. But what is constant between then (ask kids) and today as grown ups is the sense of &#039;I&#039;...the self. That is you! and not the opinions and emotions that you feel. These thinks form the ego. We are always serving the ego. Each time some one insults my belief system... I get angry because i feel I am being rejected (approval seeking). But the thing is who you really are can not be rejected, because the sense of I is the exact same in everyone of us!!! Hence I can say.. I am you and you are me...but our egos or opinion or looks are different, but the sense of &#039;I&#039; is exactly the same! 

I hope you can now appreciate a really great movie!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, I loved the movie. But I guess one understand it better when you have some spiritual background.</p>
<p>So here is a question for you guys:<br />
1. When you have an internal dialgue (Ego) is it possible for you to realise that you are having this conversation.<br />
2. When you feel some emotions like greed or anger is it possible for you to realise that you are having this emotion.</p>
<p>So that means you can see that you are thinking and that you are feeling the emotions. So the question is who knows this?<br />
If you are the mind(or Ego) or the emotion you cannot realise this. Because one cannot observe the system if he is the system. You have to be outside teh system to see the system example the Ego. So that means you are not the Mind.</p>
<p>All of us have a story running in our head&#8230;I am from this country, I am a man, i don&#8217;t like this, i like that, i hate this, these are my values etc. When we were kids we had diffrent opinons and values. We also looked different. But what is constant between then (ask kids) and today as grown ups is the sense of &#8216;I&#8217;&#8230;the self. That is you! and not the opinions and emotions that you feel. These thinks form the ego. We are always serving the ego. Each time some one insults my belief system&#8230; I get angry because i feel I am being rejected (approval seeking). But the thing is who you really are can not be rejected, because the sense of I is the exact same in everyone of us!!! Hence I can say.. I am you and you are me&#8230;but our egos or opinion or looks are different, but the sense of &#8216;I&#8217; is exactly the same! </p>
<p>I hope you can now appreciate a really great movie!</p>
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		<title>By: Carl</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 03:46:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Caveman, you are also correct that avi and zach do not exist. None of the characters exist. Thinking of any character in this film as people is the first part of the story&#039;s con. Now if think of them as X in an equation, then it&#039;s only a matter time until your not the victim.-----Spoiler----- For instance, your recognized that lily walker represented royalty. Now, do you remember back in the early 2000s when financial institutions (AIG, Goldman Sachs etc..) were suddenly hiring any physicists they could find? That uncanny union represents Zach and Avi. 
 &quot;A QUANTITATIVE ANALYST (AVI)is a person who works in finance using numerical or quantitative techniques. Although the original quants were concerned with risk management and DERIVATIVES pricing (CDO), the meaning of the term has expanded over time to include those individuals involved in almost any application of mathematics in finance. Examples include statistical arbitrage, ALGORITHMIC trading.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Caveman, you are also correct that avi and zach do not exist. None of the characters exist. Thinking of any character in this film as people is the first part of the story&#8217;s con. Now if think of them as X in an equation, then it&#8217;s only a matter time until your not the victim.&#8212;&#8211;Spoiler&#8212;&#8211; For instance, your recognized that lily walker represented royalty. Now, do you remember back in the early 2000s when financial institutions (AIG, Goldman Sachs etc..) were suddenly hiring any physicists they could find? That uncanny union represents Zach and Avi.<br />
 &#8220;A QUANTITATIVE ANALYST (AVI)is a person who works in finance using numerical or quantitative techniques. Although the original quants were concerned with risk management and DERIVATIVES pricing (CDO), the meaning of the term has expanded over time to include those individuals involved in almost any application of mathematics in finance. Examples include statistical arbitrage, ALGORITHMIC trading.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: Carl</title>
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		<dc:creator>Carl</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 02:28:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Caveman,this film is about ECONOMICS and the con. Period. A definition for Revolver is a person that revolves-thinks. There numerous business definitions like, &quot;A REVOLVER is a credit card holder who rolls over some portion of their credit card balance due to the next month rather than paying the full amount due.Credit Card issuers love revolvers because of all the interest income that gets generated when bills are not paid in full. In fact, if you&#039;re a dedicated revolver, and you keep making your payments on time, the credit card issuer will reward you by regularly raising your credit limit in hopes that you&#039;ll start revolving an even bigger balance.&quot; Refer back to Avi&#039;s question to Jake, &quot;How do you keep winning,&quot; during their second to last chess match. &quot;Time is your enemy.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Caveman,this film is about ECONOMICS and the con. Period. A definition for Revolver is a person that revolves-thinks. There numerous business definitions like, &#8220;A REVOLVER is a credit card holder who rolls over some portion of their credit card balance due to the next month rather than paying the full amount due.Credit Card issuers love revolvers because of all the interest income that gets generated when bills are not paid in full. In fact, if you&#8217;re a dedicated revolver, and you keep making your payments on time, the credit card issuer will reward you by regularly raising your credit limit in hopes that you&#8217;ll start revolving an even bigger balance.&#8221; Refer back to Avi&#8217;s question to Jake, &#8220;How do you keep winning,&#8221; during their second to last chess match. &#8220;Time is your enemy.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: Filligar</title>
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		<dc:creator>Filligar</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:50:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Love the blog guys! Nice to see a holistic film blog with an independent spirit. How can we reach you via email? There&#039;s a story we thought you&#039;d be interested in!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Love the blog guys! Nice to see a holistic film blog with an independent spirit. How can we reach you via email? There&#8217;s a story we thought you&#8217;d be interested in!</p>
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		<title>By: Pete H</title>
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		<dc:creator>Pete H</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:52:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>There are a lot of interesting ideas here, and they are precisely what makes this film an absolute masterpiece.  I love films that challenge you intellectually and dramatize some fascinating ideas; This film last a lot longer than two hours in my mind.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There are a lot of interesting ideas here, and they are precisely what makes this film an absolute masterpiece.  I love films that challenge you intellectually and dramatize some fascinating ideas; This film last a lot longer than two hours in my mind.</p>
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		<title>By: caveman</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:11:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>One other thing:
Why is Gold never present and always sends a woman?
She is the Queen. The movie represents a big chess board. She does all the moving around and seems to be surrounded by pawns. They were all dressed alike in her first seen. The queen is to most(in my limited experience) to be the only real threat in chess. I think that is why she was real in the movie. This is what I think and I am comfortable with this. If anyone has other explaination I would love to hear it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One other thing:<br />
Why is Gold never present and always sends a woman?<br />
She is the Queen. The movie represents a big chess board. She does all the moving around and seems to be surrounded by pawns. They were all dressed alike in her first seen. The queen is to most(in my limited experience) to be the only real threat in chess. I think that is why she was real in the movie. This is what I think and I am comfortable with this. If anyone has other explaination I would love to hear it.</p>
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		<title>By: caveman</title>
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		<dc:creator>caveman</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:04:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>At first, I would like to say that I LOVE thos movie. It&#039;s sick! Secondly, propps to Richie as I read was the man behind this movie.
I think he heard a complain or two that this movie would get bad rewievs, but did a masterpiece he loves.

This movie is a puzzle. Not an easy one. I&#039;ll copy some good explanations from internet:
1) Were Zach and Avi real?
A. No they were not. Zach and Avi represented people Jake created in order to deal with Mr. Gold. Try to think of them as a split &quot;Tyler Durdan&quot;. They were never Jake&#039;s cell mates, they never taught him about chess or cons, and that how they knew where Jake had hid all his money.

2) Who was Mr. Gold?
A. Mr. Gold was the ego Jake created in jail. Mr. Gold represents the side of Jake that wants to destroy Macha and obtain vast riches. Anything revolving around Mr. Gold&#039;s character, such as his drugs and his assistants were paid for by Jake unknowingly.

3) What was the rare blood condition Jake had and how was he saved from it?
A. It seems that Zach and Avi could have some control over Jake&#039;s body. I doubt the blood condition was real but maybe appeared to be real to convince Jake when he went to the doctors.

4) Why the animation?
A. This was to give you hints that what Jake was seeing were not only not real but also what elements of Jake&#039;s subconsciousness they were.

5) What was Zach and Avi&#039;s plan?
A. Since they were part of Jake&#039;s subconscious, he created them to help him get rid of Mr. Gold. Since Mr. Gold would use Jake to destroy himself, Zach and Avi were created to help Jake get rid of Mr. Gold. They were also trying to show Jake how to get rid of his Mr. Gold by telling him what he&#039;s doing is helping to take down Macha. This set up the &quot;chess pieces&quot;, if you will, on how to position Jake into getting rid of Mr. Gold. Remember, Avi was the persona that taught him chess and he&#039;s the one who keeps on convincing Jake to go along with their plans. Likewise, Zach is the one in charge of setting up Macha, since he was the con artist persona.

6) Why is the movie called &quot;Revolver&quot;?
A. First of all I think it&#039;s because Guy Richie wanted us to believe it was an action movie. So he lied a bit. It&#039;s called that because of Jake being the center and he must deal with everything that &quot;revolves&quot; around him. This is more the BS explanation, but I think my first answer is the real correct answer.

7) Was Macha devolving his own Mr. Gold?
A. In a way, he already had a Mr. Gold. In fact, we all do. The main difference between Jake and everyone else is that his was a more defined separate identity.



Actually, Avi and Zac said they weren&#039;t real, why shouldn&#039;t we believe this? No person in the whole movie actually really talkes to Ave or Zac, which is quite unusual, even for spli personas in movies, which we can see in &quot;Fight Club&quot; for example. 
In the elevator szene, Mr. Gold complained about &quot;them&quot; to be with Jake later then Mr. Gold himself, so who should this &quot;them&quot; be else than Avi and Zac?
Moreover, the fact, that two prisoners just escape prison as if they weren&#039;t there is unlikely - plus they didn&#039;t even plan the breakout, Jack said this, when he talked about them. And yes, they survived Mr. Gold - actually they defeated him, so why does this mean, that they have to be real, someone said this here?

We all have a Mr. Gold inside us, which is our &quot;only&quot; enemy in the end ... The comments after the movie explained this. After understanding this klimax of the movie, it is also explained, why Mr. D developes his own &quot;Mr. Gold&quot;.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>At first, I would like to say that I LOVE thos movie. It&#8217;s sick! Secondly, propps to Richie as I read was the man behind this movie.<br />
I think he heard a complain or two that this movie would get bad rewievs, but did a masterpiece he loves.</p>
<p>This movie is a puzzle. Not an easy one. I&#8217;ll copy some good explanations from internet:<br />
1) Were Zach and Avi real?<br />
A. No they were not. Zach and Avi represented people Jake created in order to deal with Mr. Gold. Try to think of them as a split &#8220;Tyler Durdan&#8221;. They were never Jake&#8217;s cell mates, they never taught him about chess or cons, and that how they knew where Jake had hid all his money.</p>
<p>2) Who was Mr. Gold?<br />
A. Mr. Gold was the ego Jake created in jail. Mr. Gold represents the side of Jake that wants to destroy Macha and obtain vast riches. Anything revolving around Mr. Gold&#8217;s character, such as his drugs and his assistants were paid for by Jake unknowingly.</p>
<p>3) What was the rare blood condition Jake had and how was he saved from it?<br />
A. It seems that Zach and Avi could have some control over Jake&#8217;s body. I doubt the blood condition was real but maybe appeared to be real to convince Jake when he went to the doctors.</p>
<p>4) Why the animation?<br />
A. This was to give you hints that what Jake was seeing were not only not real but also what elements of Jake&#8217;s subconsciousness they were.</p>
<p>5) What was Zach and Avi&#8217;s plan?<br />
A. Since they were part of Jake&#8217;s subconscious, he created them to help him get rid of Mr. Gold. Since Mr. Gold would use Jake to destroy himself, Zach and Avi were created to help Jake get rid of Mr. Gold. They were also trying to show Jake how to get rid of his Mr. Gold by telling him what he&#8217;s doing is helping to take down Macha. This set up the &#8220;chess pieces&#8221;, if you will, on how to position Jake into getting rid of Mr. Gold. Remember, Avi was the persona that taught him chess and he&#8217;s the one who keeps on convincing Jake to go along with their plans. Likewise, Zach is the one in charge of setting up Macha, since he was the con artist persona.</p>
<p>6) Why is the movie called &#8220;Revolver&#8221;?<br />
A. First of all I think it&#8217;s because Guy Richie wanted us to believe it was an action movie. So he lied a bit. It&#8217;s called that because of Jake being the center and he must deal with everything that &#8220;revolves&#8221; around him. This is more the BS explanation, but I think my first answer is the real correct answer.</p>
<p>7) Was Macha devolving his own Mr. Gold?<br />
A. In a way, he already had a Mr. Gold. In fact, we all do. The main difference between Jake and everyone else is that his was a more defined separate identity.</p>
<p>Actually, Avi and Zac said they weren&#8217;t real, why shouldn&#8217;t we believe this? No person in the whole movie actually really talkes to Ave or Zac, which is quite unusual, even for spli personas in movies, which we can see in &#8220;Fight Club&#8221; for example.<br />
In the elevator szene, Mr. Gold complained about &#8220;them&#8221; to be with Jake later then Mr. Gold himself, so who should this &#8220;them&#8221; be else than Avi and Zac?<br />
Moreover, the fact, that two prisoners just escape prison as if they weren&#8217;t there is unlikely &#8211; plus they didn&#8217;t even plan the breakout, Jack said this, when he talked about them. And yes, they survived Mr. Gold &#8211; actually they defeated him, so why does this mean, that they have to be real, someone said this here?</p>
<p>We all have a Mr. Gold inside us, which is our &#8220;only&#8221; enemy in the end &#8230; The comments after the movie explained this. After understanding this klimax of the movie, it is also explained, why Mr. D developes his own &#8220;Mr. Gold&#8221;.</p>
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		<title>By: ericzutter</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 04:49:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Are Avi and Zack real persons ? Avi and Zack don&#039;t interact with any people, except from Zack shooting at Jake enemies. Also Jakes brother talks about Avi and Zack. This all means that Avi and Zack are real persons.

Are Avi and Zack angels? How did Avi and Zack escaped from prison ? They escaped by the ventilation behind the toilet (like you can see in Prison Break). How can Zack read Jakes mind ? A result of having no human contact during 7 years, is that you start to speak to yourself, so everybody can hear what you are thinking. So Avi and Zack are no angels.

Who is Mister Gold? Some facts: when Jake was being chased by the bad guys during Avi and Zacks bathtub/jaccusi scene, they didn&#039;t shoot at Avi and Zack. Avi and Zack know about drug deal from Mister Gold. Nobody can see Mr. Gold, like nobody can see Avi. At the end Mr. Gold sends somebody to kill Macha. The person who shows up is Jake sended by Avi. So the answer is really simple. Avi (the black guy) is Mr. Gold and Zack and Jake are working for him.

Avi is playing a chess game with Macha. Avi lets Macha believe that he is winning. Mr. Gold (=Avi) ask Macha to take care personally for his drugs, and Macha is happy. Avi gives the stolen money back to Macha and Macha get somme good publicity in the newspaper, and Macha is again happy. Avi gives the stolen drugs back to Macha. And at the end when Macha kills himself, checkmate, Avi wins the chess game. At the end, Avi has all the money and all the drugs for free, and all people that wants the money and drugs back like Macha and the Chinese people, are dead.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Are Avi and Zack real persons ? Avi and Zack don&#8217;t interact with any people, except from Zack shooting at Jake enemies. Also Jakes brother talks about Avi and Zack. This all means that Avi and Zack are real persons.</p>
<p>Are Avi and Zack angels? How did Avi and Zack escaped from prison ? They escaped by the ventilation behind the toilet (like you can see in Prison Break). How can Zack read Jakes mind ? A result of having no human contact during 7 years, is that you start to speak to yourself, so everybody can hear what you are thinking. So Avi and Zack are no angels.</p>
<p>Who is Mister Gold? Some facts: when Jake was being chased by the bad guys during Avi and Zacks bathtub/jaccusi scene, they didn&#8217;t shoot at Avi and Zack. Avi and Zack know about drug deal from Mister Gold. Nobody can see Mr. Gold, like nobody can see Avi. At the end Mr. Gold sends somebody to kill Macha. The person who shows up is Jake sended by Avi. So the answer is really simple. Avi (the black guy) is Mr. Gold and Zack and Jake are working for him.</p>
<p>Avi is playing a chess game with Macha. Avi lets Macha believe that he is winning. Mr. Gold (=Avi) ask Macha to take care personally for his drugs, and Macha is happy. Avi gives the stolen money back to Macha and Macha get somme good publicity in the newspaper, and Macha is again happy. Avi gives the stolen drugs back to Macha. And at the end when Macha kills himself, checkmate, Avi wins the chess game. At the end, Avi has all the money and all the drugs for free, and all people that wants the money and drugs back like Macha and the Chinese people, are dead.</p>
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		<title>By: stan</title>
		<link>http://www.filmdailies.com/archives/review-revolver/comment-page-2/#comment-29477</link>
		<dc:creator>stan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:50:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>great film..........
even greater than holmes
ELEVATOR represents purgatory</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>great film&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<br />
even greater than holmes<br />
ELEVATOR represents purgatory</p>
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		<title>By: Cognition</title>
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		<dc:creator>Cognition</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 19:58:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I understood and liked the movie. It takes two hours to watch and a week to understand. I have watched Lock, Stock und Zwei Smoking Barrels, but it doesn&#039;t come even near the genius of this piece. Guy Ritchie shows signs of both spiritual and intellectual growth proportional and directly interlinked through each-other.
To all the haters out there, the film holds the reason why you don&#039;t like it. If you could only understand it... :D
I have only one unanswered question:
&quot;If you only get smarter by playing a smarter opponent, then who in the seven blazes of hell has Guy Ritchie been playing with?&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I understood and liked the movie. It takes two hours to watch and a week to understand. I have watched Lock, Stock und Zwei Smoking Barrels, but it doesn&#8217;t come even near the genius of this piece. Guy Ritchie shows signs of both spiritual and intellectual growth proportional and directly interlinked through each-other.<br />
To all the haters out there, the film holds the reason why you don&#8217;t like it. If you could only understand it&#8230; <img src='http://www.filmdailies.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' /><br />
I have only one unanswered question:<br />
&#8220;If you only get smarter by playing a smarter opponent, then who in the seven blazes of hell has Guy Ritchie been playing with?&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: oscar</title>
		<link>http://www.filmdailies.com/archives/review-revolver/comment-page-2/#comment-29213</link>
		<dc:creator>oscar</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:47:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Fuck this is insane...lol sorry im not as smart as everyone here..but i try to understand the meaning of the movie and it just makes my brain hurt..lol great movie though..loved it :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Fuck this is insane&#8230;lol sorry im not as smart as everyone here..but i try to understand the meaning of the movie and it just makes my brain hurt..lol great movie though..loved it <img src='http://www.filmdailies.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Tony</title>
		<link>http://www.filmdailies.com/archives/review-revolver/comment-page-2/#comment-29028</link>
		<dc:creator>Tony</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:57:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Best Film he has made. One of the best ever. I have a greater respect for Mr . Ritchie</description>
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		<title>By: Blargable</title>
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		<dc:creator>Blargable</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 15:18:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I just noticed while reading the comments that I&#039;m not the only one who thinks this, cool :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I just noticed while reading the comments that I&#8217;m not the only one who thinks this, cool <img src='http://www.filmdailies.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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