My review of the movie "The Game" (1997) ✨🎬🩸✝️🩸🎬✨

The Game
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The Game is a 1997 American mystery thriller film directed by David Fincher, starring Michael Douglas, Sean Penn, Deborah Kara Unger and James Rebhorn and produced by Propaganda Films and PolyGram Filmed Entertainment. It tells the story of a wealthy investment banker who is given a mysterious birthday gift by his brother—participation in a game that integrates in strange ways with his everyday life. As the lines between the banker's real life and the game become more uncertain, hints of a larger conspiracy begin to unfold.

Source: Wikipedia: the Game (1997)

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The Game (1997) Official Trailer: ✨🎬🩸✝️🩸🎬✨

WARNING! Spoilers ahead!

Plot: ✨🎬🩸✝️🩸🎬✨

Nicholas Van Orton is an investment banker in San Francisco. He is very successful and wealthy, but also cold and condescending, as well as lonely and reclusive. He also is still haunted by the death of his father, who committed suicide on his 48th birthday, by jumping off the roof of the family mansion, so Nicholas is looking grim at his own 48th birthday.

On his birthday, he is surprisingly visited by his estranged younger brother Conrad, who gifts him an unusual present —a voucher for a "game" offered by a company called Consumer Recreation Services (CRS). Though skeptical, he goes to the CRS office to apply, but the time-consuming psychological and physical examinations required irritate him, and he is later informed that his application has been rejected.

Nicholas returns home one evening to find a wooden clown in his driveway which he drags inside. While watching the Cable Financial Network (CFN), the anchor begins talking to Nicholas through his television screen. The anchor tells Nicholas that he is being watched by a tiny camera in the head of the clown and provides him with the telephone number for a CRS 24-hour emergency hotline. He warns Nicholas not to call the hotline asking about the object of the game as "figuring that out is the object of the game." More bizarre events continue happening; Nicholas initially thinks CRS are simply staging elaborate pranks, but then he starts to believe it is real when his business, reputation, and safety are endangered. Nicholas is also haunted by his father's suicide, which he witnessed as a child. He meets a waitress, Christine, who also becomes involved.

Conrad visits Nicholas and apologizes, claiming CRS has attacked him. An argument breaks out between the two brothers, resulting in Conrad running away—leaving Nicholas on his own. Nicholas gets into a taxi; after locking the doors, the driver jumps out before the car crashes into San Francisco Bay. Nicholas manages to escape the sinking car and make it to the surface. Nicholas contacts the police, but they find the CRS office abandoned.

With no one else to turn to, Nicholas finds Christine's home, and discovers she is a CRS employee. When she tells him they are being watched, Nicholas attacks a nearby camera, and armed CRS personnel swarm the house. When they fire at the two of them, Nicholas and Christine flee. Christine later tells him CRS has drained his bank accounts by guessing his passwords using the psychological tests he completed, but his lawyer says the money in the accounts is still there. He then begins to feel dizzy and realizes Christine has drugged him. As he loses consciousness, she admits she is part of the scam and says he made a fatal mistake in giving his card security code over the phone.

Source: Wikipedia: the Game (1997)

My review: ✨🎬🩸✝️🩸🎬✨

I watched the movie in the 1990s while I was still living in Heide-Kalmthout in Belgium. Back then I watched it and found it quite dark and negative. I forgot about the movie until I found it on Netflix again yesterday. Then I decided to watch it again with a more mature mind.

Nicholas Van Orton is a very rich investment banker that goes about living his life in his luxory mansion. He meets up with his younger brother at a restaurant and his brother Conrad gives him a card to a company specialised in "entertainment", the company is named "Consumer Recreation Services (CRS). Conrad tells him multiple times that he should visit the company and that he should try it out.

I would label the movie a psychological horror thriller. Nicholas Van Orton starts becoming very paranoid during the course of this so called "Game" and on multiple times he believes that this is just all a scam to get to his 700 million US dollars on his offshore accounts. You could say as a viewer that you don't know if this is a scam or is all part of the game!

The movie starts kind of slow, and the unfolding of the story is kind of boring in my eyes until the game becomes really hot and intensive! On multiple times you believe that Nicholas Van Orton is facing real deadly situations, and that even CRS agents start shooting at him with automatic weapons. So Nicholas truly believes that this is a conspiracy to kill him for his money. Before the game starts he is fully checked and he has to do a complete psychological profile test and physical exam. They record his face, his voice and this testing takes up an entire day.

The movie "The Game" starts relatively slow in its story telling until you are hooked on your chair or sofa, and you yourself no longer believe that this is a game, and you keep wondering if this is all going to end well or not.

At the beginning of the Game the financial news speaker on TV starts talking to Nicholas directly through the TV. And Nicholas can't believe this, that this is actually happening. It turns out that the Joker puppet that he found outside of his mansion was full of cameras, and that they were observing him through this puppet.

It is a very entertaining but also a dark movie, where you actually become paranoid and truly believe that they are all after you (or in this case Nicholas).

Conclusion: ✨🎬🩸✝️🩸🎬✨

What I learned from the movie is that it was a prophetic kind of movie. In the labs where Nicholas is tested completely, they record his voice, they take photos, they make a complete psychological profile and then based on this data, create a game for him specifically.

This analysis of a human person can be done today 100% automatically using AI and the internet! Everything we post online in all social networks, be it written, voice notes on WhatsApp and Telegram, be it videos on YouTube, TikTok, all your E-Mails you have ever written and so on, can be used to make a complete psychological profile of you! With this profile a digital avatar can be created that looks and speaks 100% like you! Then all you need is access to all the laptops, smartphones and computers of the chosen person or target, and then you have access to all the passwords of all your bank accounts and more! This actually happens in the movie, Nicholas van Horton calls his bank in Switzerland and the banker tells him on his mobile phone that all his bank accounts have been cleared of all his money! His wealth of over 700 million has simply vanished!

In essence the movie can be labelled a prophetic movie: everything can be falsified today! Your voice, your image or avatar, even all passwords are saved on every browser, with this information you can clear all bank accounts from their money using all these passwords and IDs (even Passports and IDs can be falsified), and even bank cards and credit cards can be cloned today without a problem, then you only need the PIN or password and a login device and voila.

I've watched many movies where Michael Douglas plays in, and I liked most of them! This movie is also very entertaining but also very dark and it takes time to get into it! At the end you have an incredible climax! Of course you can state that so many things could have gone wrong, and that Nicholas could have easily been killed by all these apparent scenes of the Game, nevertheless the movie is a like a thrilling ride, that shows you how easily it is to make someone lose their minds and actually become paranoid schizophrenic (if the TV starts talking to you and no one else sees it then you are declared mentally insane, in this case you would get the diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia, when you see things or hear voices that aren't there).

What I also learned while watching this movie is that Nicholas does not understand why his father committed suicide in the first place! He was very young and simply could not understand why his father did it! When he jumps of the rooftop at the end of the movie because he had apparently shot his brother dead he walks to the side of the building and tries to commit suicide. But he is saved because this was all part of the game! And Nicholas learned that some people who have suffered much grief and depressions do these kind of things then. Suicide should never be an option! I pray for the over 10000 Germans that commit suicide every year! May Jesus Christ save their souls and bring them to a better place! ✝️ This final act of the game gives Nicholas closure of his father's suicide.

My mother also watched the movie and although she learned from it she did not like it because it was simply too dark, and makes you paranoid! So just watch this movie if you have a firm and steady mind and psyche!

Dedication and Prayer: ✨🎬🩸✝️🩸🎬✨

This blog post is dedicated to Michael Douglas (Nicholas Van Orton), Sean Penn (Conrad Van Orton) and Deborah Kara Unger (Christine).

With this blog post the contracts of all characters become legally binding and they synchronisation to my past self also becomes legaly binding! In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit,

Amen! ✨🎬🩸✝️🩸🎬✨