I'm going to rank the movie..... "Revolver" (click here for trailer) up there with my all time favorites.Leon, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking barrels, And the Matrix. I rented it yesterday and have watched it twice now.
This is definetly a mind bending movie. I knew the director Guy Ritchie was into Kabbalah and the references are there for those looking for such things but one can also extract Christian principles and beliefs. The ultimate enemy is the ego. The self. This can also be attributed to Satan. Feeding us lies during the everyday conversations we have with ourselves in our own minds.
The reduction of the ego is one of the most important battles and the least understood. And so this movie takes us through the character of Jake Green (played by one of my fav actors, Jason Statham) who unbeknownst to him has been subjected to a game that will expose his ultimate opponent, himself.
Jakes a con man and having learned the ultimate formula for winning while inprisoned embarks on a tale of revenge to those resposible for his incarceration. But this isn't your average revenge flick. Here we get to see numerous characters battling their own image of self thru voice overs.
The ultimate enemy is supposedly crime boss Sam Gold, whom you never see and with good reason. He is the strong man to use a biblical phrase. But fear of him and humiliation of self (the source of most violence if you think about it) drives the characters to destroy themselves and those around them. Only when we are awakened to the fact that the true enemy is within us, can we then take on the real fight.
Of course this is too much for the mind to grasp and like Jake Green we must be played first, beaten at the game we think we are in control of. Reduced and forced into enduring what we fear most.
This is an Exodus movie, and the charcters Jake (Jacob), Avi (Abraham) and Zack (Isaac) the patriarchs of Israel are leaving Egypt. An Egypt of the mind. A self made prison.
Rent this movie. Violent and profane it is. But so is life. The ending is redemptive.
