Horse Winner Chicken Dinner

“Winner winner, chicken dinner.” It appeared to be the most memorable sentence in the movie. It is obvious from the name of the movie, 21, to see that the movie should be about winning in the game 21, which also refers to as Blackjack. This shows the statistical side of this movie, but it is much more than that. It is also a movie of humanity. 21 is the age of the movie’s main character, and it is an age of impulse and irrational decisions. The professor in the movie might be the only villain in the movie, but it is not true. For me, everyone in the movie can be seen as selfish villain who care about his or her own profit.
At the very beginning of 21, Ben, the main character, is presented as a smart but poor student who does everything to get to his tuition. When he first talks to the professor who’s in charge of the scholarship, he is “victim” of not being book-like enough to get the help that he needs. He is established as a pitiful and kind figure, with the identity of a genius of course. What’s ironic is that our audience knows that the professor only knows him for the first time when professor is in need of a replacement of someone who left the “counting” group for Google. He demonstrates his talent in math, refuses to join the group, seems to
The professor makes his point that there’s a difference between statistics and gambling when he says to Ben that Ben isn’t counting anymore, but rather gambling. But it is not true in most cases. Even though they use statistics to add the probability of winning, the nature of gambling isn’t change: it’s still a matter of chance. The professor thought there’s a line, which might be following the rule, between counting and gambling, but for him, the purposes are the same. No matter he’s counting or gambling or teaching others to counting, his main goal is to get more money, and he cannot stop even he’s been beat up by the supervisor of the