My reaction to this movie is that I can’t easily make any sense of all the symbolism, egoism, and mysticism, but I can’t help myself. I have to try to process and make sense. Stupid ego. While there are many theories and brilliant observations, which I’m sure was an intentional byproduct of this blog and production in general, still the only thing that makes sense to me is that there are some loosely tied together concepts which are simply open to interpretation.

There were times when Jake hears his own voice talking where I was so on edge and thinking that any second that Jake will have an epiphany and it will all make sense, but that never really happens.

In the end, like life, it is what you make of it, even if it doesn’t make any sense. My ego tells me this is unacceptable, that the game really was to make a mindf**k movie which revolves around idealigical concepts which are blurred further by gangster chess pieces and angelic loan sharks and layer upon layer of misdirection and information perpetually revolving, unwinding, revolving some more, and evntually we have a knotted up tale which seems to have no beginning and no end. it is just a knot which is impossible to cypher, unravel, or unrevlolve.

So here is my sequel. Mr green becomes enlightened and decides to take his money and start a Super-PAC and backs Newt Gingrich, stops playing chess and starts playing Scrabble with a caveman and Brian Orakpo and learns that sometimes scrabble words are hurtful to cavemen, but they are amusing to linebackers who play for the Washington Redskins. Hang in there it will all make sense.

Tell you ego that we are you, and the only way to get smarter is by playing against smarter opponents, and the best place to hide is in a C4, and that corporations are people. In the end Mr. Green wakes up and realizes that he is actually renown talk show host Mr. Colbert and was having a terrible nightmare and that there were never any convicts in solitary confinement with him and that Vincent Pastore is a guest on his show with musical guest Outkast, and Ray Liotta is now president and starring in the prequel to Revolver called Rayvolver. In the final scene Stephen figures out the ultimate scrabble con, Sarah Palin admits that she has no idea what she’s talking about, and to top it all off, and here’s the twist, Mr. Colbert is also f**king Madonna which ties in nicely with the Kabbala theme. And during the credits Fox News will explain the dichotomy of having an agenda and maintaining mock objectivity and being paradoxically credible.

everyone here is talking about ego’s all because the end of the movie says so, but that is part of the illusion of the movie, yes ego’s do exist but that’s a minor part of the movie.

in the beginning of the movie, it states the playing a smarter opponent, which is at the end of the game you, you go from the later to the former(i get the concept but not its entirety).

it also states, #1 rule in business is protect your investment, the title of the book is Etiquette of the banker 1775 – the year is interesting for 1776 and the whole creation of the US and all, not to mention the 12 dollar bill used which goes so deep and long i cant explain it here….

the destroying the ego is to set himself free of himself, you can only really be free when you have lost everything there is to lose, thus rock bottom. break yourself down to rebuild yourself into the former…doesn’t end there.

the books the prisoners were reading were astrophysics books and quantum mechanics books, thus the two conmen were bracing him for a new reality, a reality that MR. Gold lived in and so did they but gold being eternal for he has been their for eternity with the conmen just getting their. The reality is we are in the 3rd dimensional realm, the two conmen and gold have skipped to the 4th dimension, thus they can adjust the 3D realm as they please, hence knowing about the elevator and the shooting, including the disease and curing it, but they needed him to arive their on his own, it cant be forced.

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1) Why does Zach take the watch from the fat Asian guy at the hotel? I think this has to do with another element of the movie which is the illusion of TIME. The theory that time does not exist could be related to this since it is not clear whether the whole movie is happening in Green’s mind while he is still in jail, or if he in fact did get out and parts of the movie really did happen and others did not. This also has to do with the part where he is run over by the car and then time goes back and when they know things ahead of time.

2) Another crazy interpretation could be that all of existence is a game of chess being played again and again by God and the Devil. I do not really believe this is the intention of the movie but just a fun concept to think about (BTW I do not believe in neither one of them)

Finally, I recommend that people do not waste time calling each other ignorant, or try to decide whether or not the movie is a masterpiece or a piece of crap, or which interpretation is correct and which one is not. The great thing about movies and books like these are made is that it makes us think about and discuss these ideas, which I think is what in the end is all about.

I have read some of the comments and thank everyone for taking the time to explain. Guy Ritchie in his commentary explains a great deal,; its on the DVD! Choose a different audio stream!

My take on few things not explained here:

Gold is what/who egos aspire to become or get close to.

Con+Chess = consciousness makes perfect sense. Reason and Doubts/Ego-Self-Con form that little voice of pure heart conscience.

Giving to old lady…approval junkie act.

Sorter…feelings.

But I have some questions:

What is that with Three Eddies?

His brother…man of status quo, afraid of confronting ego? He loses his wife to Eddies. And finally is nailed…feelings/Sorter saving his child but ego or Macha eventually threatening to kill her. Green has to save her by standing up to him one more time, bringing back the Gold’s stuff. ??? Wow

I think I get it… pretty well.(yes after watching it twice). But why would/did the loan sharks(who even Mr. Gold didn’t want to mess with) get envolved.

And really why would Jason pick solitaire when he can’t even abide an evevator car?

Honestly this movie has a seriously important message. The loss of ego would remove basically every evil existent in the world today. Interested in how to achieve that? Look into zen teachings they are almost universally about achieving a loss of ego.

Like irrational numbers, some notions cannot be fully presented within so-called reality, within the bounds of sanity, within a dream within a dream.

I enjoy Revolver because its meaning to me changes whenever I view it.

the character sacrifices all he has in order to beat the game. rembember how he says that by sacrificing the chess pieces and letting the oponent win he actually got closer to winning the game? i think this could be the same principle. The movie has a nice message. forget about material stuff, overcome your fears, learn to sacrifice in order to win.

Take care everyone

I just watched the film…. and the titles where all in German. I looked up the translations online. Then when it was over came here and started reading. The guy who said he met Guy and there are different versions in different countries is right. The version I watched had no credits on the end. When I got to the comment that talked about the shrinks in the credits I’m like what, I didn’t see the credits. So I go to Netflix to watch the instant version there just to see the credits… but I watch a little and Whaaaaa – the film is totally different. Whole major scenes Many of them GONE. The ending totally different…
One guy earlier is talking about Macha committing suicide at the end and another guy asking him to explain. Well yeah because they aren’t watching the same fucking versions.
I am excited that my second watching is going to be a totally different edit. Should give some fun extra perspective.
cheers.