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Revolver movie full explanation

posted 14 years ago by jurijamore
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This is not my explanation, it is writen by a person from russian site kinopoisk.ru I only translated it, sorry for mistakes. This is the best explanation you can find, everything is explained, no plotholes.

Ok, here we go, lets start from the biginning.

Jake Green is criminal. From the very beginign of the film we know, that he was sentenced for 7 years in prison, we dont know why, but it doesnt matter.

Now carefuly, the beginning is the end of a movie, Jake Green walks out of prison, it is the only real moment in movie. Then we can read ''two years later'', the thing to understand is, not two years after he left prison, BUT two years in prison, so he got 7, after 2 years he uderstood something is wrong in his life, he need to reborn and became a normal person.

So basicaly this film is about person, who understood his mistakes, and begin a fight to became new person, so when he came out of prison, he is not a criminal anymore. Everything that is shown in movie is methafor for his fight inside his soul. Everything happens in prison. For example.

Jake Green- main character.
Machaa, Lord John- Jakes dark side, but he is not his main enemy.
Zach, Avi- Jakes good side, only they could help Jake reborn.
Sam Gold- greed, Jakes main enemy.
Sorter- he is indicator, in the begining he is on Macha side, but when jake begins to win, he moves to good side.
3 Eddies- some kind of seducers, it was there fault that Jake became in prison.
Other charecters are shown only to create some plot, they dont really need to mean something, or you can find meaning by yourself.

Now about subplot

1. Casino conflict- after two years of prison Jake begin his fight, he needs overcome his greed, to never return to prison.
2. Falling, shooting, virus- Jakes good side(Avi, Zach) start helping him in his fight, virus is self-deception, so it would more easy to start resist.
3. Jake story about his past- self analysis, to understand his past mistakes.
4. Jake begins to give his money- a methafor for pawns in chess, you need to give them up to your enemy, to get advantage in future.
5. Heroin- Jake steals heroin from Macha, he eats important figure in chess.
6. Trying to return money- they failed, because the game is started and pawns cant go backward.
7. War- Macha start war with Jake, Jake understands there is no virus, the battle begined, so he dont need no more self-deception, there is no way back, he should fight with his dark side.
8. Sam Gold- Avi and Zach explain that Jake main enemy is Sam Gold, his greed and thirst for money.
9. Check in chess game- Jake gives his last money to charity, he already understood how to win his enemy.
10. Checkmate- Meeting with Macha and lift scene, Jake understands that while he is exposed to greed(Sam Gold) his dark side manipulates him(he hears inner voice), but when he overcome his greed, he start to control his dark side(Macha starts to hear voice)
11. Panic- Macha understands he is lost, trying to do something, sends people to Jakes brother. Jakes dark side try to reestablish control over Jake.
12. Sorter- he is indicator, now when Jake won, Macha cant control him.
13. Final- Jake meets Macha, Macha Jake dark side suicide. Jake won, the end. Now we can return to beginning the film, Jake went out of prison, he is new person, not a criminal anymore, he will never come back to prison. Happy end.

[–] dunker56 11 years ago

My understanding (from one viewing) was summin along the lines of Jake being half awoken to what his cell mates/lone sharks were on about. He only got 'free' at the last elevator scene where he finally killed his ego. The Ray Liotta 'FEAR ME!!! crying scene' is about Jake shaking his ego and finally walking as a free man (regardless of whether Ray pops his ass or not). Whether he dies by Ray Liotta's gun is not so much the point, but rather he will die a free man, free to make decisions and live his life without ego interference or not even if it's for 3 seconds or more.

Then it cuts to the psycho dudes talking about ego being the real mans enemy. I have heard this argued before, it's interesting stuff, look into it more. Basically the little 'instinct voice' in our heads is not to be trusted as much as we might like to think.

[–] dunker56 11 years ago

[–] Mellow-Fellow 10 years ago

Who else just read his post with a heavy Russian accent lol.

- I couldn’t live with myself any longer. And in this a question arose without an answer: who is the ‘I’ that cannot live with the ‘self’? What is the self? I felt drawn into a void. I didn’t know at the time that what really happened was the mind-made self, with its heaviness, its problems, that lives between the unsatisfying past and the fearful future, collapsed. It dissolved. Tolle recalls going out for a walk in London the next morning, and finding that “everything was miraculous, deeply peaceful. Even the traffic". – Eckhart Tolle 1977. - On the perception of Ego Death: (selflessness / loss of self. Not the non-illusory ego notion of Buddhists).

This movie is about shedding the ego, like Cast Away, in a strange not quite as good way. I gave it a point higher than I would have for the Sorter redemption scene.

[–] allen_evilla13 9 years ago

thanks to this. when i watched this, i finished watching it but only understood a little of the movie. but thanks to this i now understand it all haha.

[–] inframan 9 years ago

Wow what a bunch of lame dumbassed pseudo-explanations of one of the very worst movies ever made. Hard to believe the same director gave us Snatch. All this juvenile kill-the-ego crap is like some west coast junior college psych 101 for retards BS. I think y'all been watching to many zombies meet the hobbits cartoons.