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Originally Posted by nachunja
trip report:
it was decent,
the director was a live grinder as well as all the interviewee's in the doc, so its a totally different perspective from online grinder like myself. There were lol spots where i went wtf what a fish! in my head. I really appreciated and felt fortunate that I can play online poker.
director kinda put the contrasting near-busto live grinders compared to Daniel N. who lives a lavish life style compared to toronto grinders. The general background music and tone/mood of the two contrasting background was eminent but wasn't directly put. ... Also for the AK over a blonde guy, its just how he is. Obv he was joking and anyone who took that literally is ******ed. He was irl how he was in that trailer, no joke.
I agree. This isn't a film trying to show "the poker lifestyle" nor is it meant to put poker in a bad light. It's a look at three people in the TO underground world--none of them particularly successful, but none total degenerates either--and at the director's own involvement in that scene. It will certainly make you laugh at some of the silliness of the individuals, but it treats its subjects as interesting people with stories to tell. And the film's desire to make a larger point--that as the director became more involved in the poker clubs, he was also being told the odds against his wife's pregnancy coming to term--added a certain poignancy to the whole and made it ultimately about something more than poker. I was glad I went. (And it was fun listening to the home town crowd murmur under their breaths at certain moments, such as when the player Danny tells the guy on the other end of the phone that everybody knows he plays better after 10 drinks! Watching him fall asleep while playing online is also priceless.)