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Before I could enjoy the fruits of victory, the gunfire of the trial had already sounded.
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Finding a good movie is like looking for a needle in a haystack. What we need is patience, and the best reward for patience is that the movie itself is good enough, at least from this point of view, it does.
The film is full of stormy rambles, electronic drum beats from start to finish, and fidgeting everywhere, and we follow Howard's point of view, not knowing where he's taking us. When we thought everyone was happy, we got the most unexpected ending. At this point, our hopes are all in vain.
The film is about a tragedy caused by an opal.
Howard, a New York diamond dealer, is addicted to gambling and is surrounded by debt collectors almost all the time. What he can do is to tear down the east wall to make up for the west wall, and turn around between different borrowers. In order to solve the dilemma, he hopes to bet on the ball, hoping that the bet will win him money to solve all difficulties.
Debt collectors came up with a slap, and they had lost patience with Howard's excuses.
When being chased by debt collectors and unable to get out of trouble, he took out a fake Rolex to get out of trouble.
He couldn't escape, he could only be beaten by the debt collectors.
Or being thrown into the pool on the street, no one is surprised by the crowded streets.
With money in hand, Howard didn't want to pay off the debt, but gambled on it.
Addicted to football games, neglected family. Strangely, he won the bet.
But it wasn't that simple. His bet was intercepted by creditors, so the winning bet was lost.
Howard bought an opal from Ethiopia at a high price, hoping to turn it over by auctioning salted fish.
He invited a friend to act as a buyer and kept bidding at the auction. Unexpectedly, his friend called out the highest bid. The opal was photographed by myself.
Hey, I really don't know how to get rid of it except crying a lot. Why is life so hard? Time and time again with good luck missed.
Fortunately, NBA star Garnett is willing to pay less than the auction price.
After getting the money, Howard made a desperate bid to buy the bet.
The debt collectors who heard the news were blocked outside the door. Through the bulletproof glass, the two sides shouted in the air, but no one could hear the other. The two sides lost the possibility of further communication.
Howard triumphantly put the bet on the vicious debt collector, immersed in the gamble, unaware that the danger was creeping in.
Incredibly, Howard won the bet again.
The debt collector rushed in and shot Howard in the forehead.
it's all over.
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Capital came into the world, and every pore was bloody and dirty.
At the beginning of the Ethiopian mine, a black miner fell bloody in a dirty mine. Opal did not bring them wealth, but diamond dealers as far away as the United States wanted to take the opportunity to make a fortune. This is how capital's devastation of the Third World began quietly.
Through the pores of the opal we enter the interior of the universe.
This opal is billions of years old, it has seen far more than we know, we are stunned by what happened to Howard, but for the opal, this is just a moment in billions of years. It has seen the extinction of dinosaurs, it has seen famine, disease and war, and it has seen capitalism plunder the Third World.
The holes of opal, the holes of history, the holes of small people (bullet holes), they bridge and penetrate in the film, and together they lead to nothingness.
The two ends of the earth are linked together because of opal, and they also paid the price in blood, although they were insignificant.
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