I think I definitely need to see Revolver again. Even if it’s just so I can confirm that nothing slipped by me the first time I saw it.
There are a lot of people looking for a Revolver explanation. I don’t think there’s one but a lot of Guy Ritchie fans feel there must be more to it.
There’s an article in The Guardian that discusses the sly marketing tactics employed by Revolver’s PR agency. It included paying blogger and forum posters to create a “buz” for the movie. I wonder if they are still paying for that because I get quite a few “forum trolls” posting comments about how everyone who thinks this movie is anything short of a masterpiece should “die a horrible death.”
i just watched revolver and i can honestly say my head is in the bin!!!!!
i would recommend people not watch this as it will cause permanant mental damage!!!!!!
Just watched it…..WHAT THE HELL WAS ALL THAT ABOUT??? Is it some crap about internal conflict? i gonna have to watch it again…..
Seriously, I should’ve read the reviews before renting this. All I can say it…what???
Watched this earlier, and are tempted to watch it again just to try and make an even slight bit of sense from it, some of the plot twists werent actually twists and could be seen from a mile off, some of them didnt actually make any sense whatsoever, and some of them were so utterly wrapped in constantly repeated dialogue you spend more time concentrating on the quote on the screen than whats actually going on in the movie, an enjoyable film, but one that will give even the cleverest of people an enormous headache.
i just loved it ..
the best movie i ever had ,,,,
but u have to watch it at least 2 times
I really do loved this movie
All I can say is:
The greatest trick that he ever pulled was making you believe that he is you.
I think it is the definition of a really good movie. Definitly one of the greatest movies ever. What can i say…
The only way to get smarter is by playing a smarter opponent.
I loved the movie Revolver. I’ve watched my share of movies and this one is the best of the best. It’s an allegory.
The movie is about your ego. Your ego is made up of ideas that you have gathered together by the time you were 5 years old. These ideas are what you believe to be you. When in fact they are not. Since you believe these ideas are you. You believe that the voice in your head that is telling you what to do is you. When in fact they are nothing more than a bunch of ideas. Your ego is not you. Therefore, the ego does not exist. Yet, it will rule you until you understand that your Ego is not you. Then and only then will the real you control your life. Until then you are nothing more than a puppet jumping to the whims of your ego. This is a head-trip I know, but if you watch the movie until the credits begin. You will see Chopra and others give you the answers to the whole movie. Afterwards if you watch it again you will get the movie.
Hey jacob if you are that smart explain it
I loved this movie I honestly had to watch it twice but basically like the quote in the movie, “The greatest enemy to have ever existed is a eternal one” and there is no such thing as an external enemy. You can hurt/destroy you eternal enemy by pleasing your external perceived enemy. In the movie Green is telling Macha (Ray Liota) to forgive him for his stupidity and that he has underestimated his intellegence and you can hear his battle with his ego (internal enemy) just think about it. Think about a person you don’t like, someone who has wronged you, can you imagine telling them that they were right and you were wrong. That would bruise your ego right??? That’s the whole concept here. I percieve the ego as being satan considering I’m religious but to non-religious folk think of it as some unexplained force. “The greatest con he ever pulled was making you believe he is you”. (My favorite qoute) “The greatest trick satan ever pulled was convincing man he did not exist”. Catch my drift? My comment goes hand in hand with Mystics.
It is very easy to explain the film.
1) The beginning of the film is the only real scene in this film( when Green went out of prison), and it is also an ending.
Revolver- means rolling back to beginning
2) Everything that happens in this film is illusion(while Green is in prison), all is happening in Greens mind, he is fighting with his own demons, ego e.t.c. Only real person in film is Green. After his victory he wents from proson reborned.
Just wach this film once more and you will understand everything.
The film is about egos and the idea that the person you are is based on the ego you have developed throughout your life. So you aren’t in control of yourself, your ego is in control of you. Therefore, to be in complete control of yourself you need to kill your ego.
Notice at the end, Statham has to do nice things for Liotta (apologises, donates money to charity in his name etc…) He does this to bruise his own ego, when he does it, he loses his phobias and is able to use the lift and stand in front of Liotta with no fear of him.
As a biproduct, this bruises liotta’s ego which he cannot handle so he kills himself.
The con men in solitary successfully teach him all he needs to know while he is inside and then escape two years before he is released in order to prepare the way for him to become one of them, the blood disease is a con but necessary along with taking all of his money. They had to ensure his ego was at its lowest in order to help him attack it. I believe this film also communicates that the bigger your ego, the more delicate is is and therefore, the more vunerable you are (or what you believe is you).
Mr. Gold is a powerful illusion that the two conmen/loan sharks have created which aids them and statham in killing liotta.
So at the end, statham doesn’t have to listen to his ego and therefore plays the “game” by his own rules which no one else can do because they all have egos he and his new assosciates become the most powerful men in the city.
Wes your explanation is about as close as I got, but my frustration was this: why would the chess man and the con man have an agenda about Green having this spiritual awakening, and if that is what it was really all about, then why would they be willing to kill dozens to achieve that? It was a little over the top. If it was a situation like in The Game (David Fincher) where no one actually got hurt, then I could buy it, but it seems like such an abstract, noble ethereal goal that the willingness to whack people seems incongruous.
So I think it must be that he is in prison the whole time and the whole thing is a fabrication.