Nichts geht mehr – Das Millionenspiel des Dan Mahowny (2003)
50KNichts geht mehr – Das Millionenspiel des Dan Mahowny: Directed by Richard Kwietniowski. With Philip Seymour Hoffman, Minnie Driver, John Hurt, Maury Chaykin. A bank manager with: (a) a gambling problem and (b) access to a multimillion dollar account gets into a messy situation. Based on the story of the largest one-man bank fraud in Canadian history.
“Iu0026#39;m not sure that it was a fantastic movie, but it really sticks with me. I gamble quite a bit too, and I regularly see Mahoney-like behaviours at the casino. The guy next to me the other day started with $200, then went up, in my eyes undeservingly, to about $2500, and finally lost it all in a matter of half an hour. The entire time completely without expression, like a gambler, like Mahoney. No matter what happens to a gambler in the short term, he knows that it is ephemeral. Unfortunately, the ephemeral losses are a bit bigger than the ephemeral wins, and the cumulative loss is what you are stuck with in the end.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI liked the way that Mahoney was so boring. As though the things that make life interesting for the average person and the things that make the average person interesting all pale in his eyes to the passionate communion that he has with the game.”
