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1. Laura Simpson 08.03.18 / 11pm

   Aaron Sorkin’s Molly’s Game (2017) features a non-linear narrative about a highly intelligent woman who grows into her own through Poker. I enjoyed Cyrus Davar’s description of being fed “10 espresso shots” of personal history. The plot weaves through different timelines, in an effort to keep intrigue and slowly provide contextual information about the protagonist. As Molly’s knowledge of Poker grows, she learns how to manipulate players and make lots of money-not by betting, but by running the game space. All while playing emotionally aloof to her clients. Due to legal issues, Molly goes broke and writes a book describing her development of the game. Get gets into further trouble, and the stakes are raised when she become a role model for her lawyer’s daughter. Whom she see’s much of herself in, which cause some internal turmoil. The story comes to a conclusion with Molly winning her legal battle, and her internal battles as well.
2. Rachel Gillhouse 03.15.19 / 4pm

   Although I did see this film when it was still in theaters, nearly a year ago, I don’t remember feeling as though I was being force-fed the storyline. If anything, the rapid and weaving delivery of the story fits quite well into the nature of Molly’s life and high-roller poker lifestyle. It seems this could have been creative choice to enhance the plot line, while also allowing for as much detail from a persons entire life to be fit into 2 hours. Much of my defense of the film stems from the fact that I had just learned the basics of poker a few days prior to seeing this movie and was living in the exhilarating high that is beginners luck.
3. Jack Yin 10.02.19 / 11pm

   I have seen this movie before. I think that for this film, there is no way to really measure its core value. The reason is that “Molly’s game” is happening in real gambling, involving too many Hollywood stars, politicians and financial tycoons.At the heart of the film is Molly trying to protect the privacy of her gamblers, preferring to be sentenced to jail and not willing to sell customers. So the natural director took a lot of effort to hide the real name of everyone, and he said he didn’t want the film to be a gossip movie.
4. Amber Allen 07.13.22 / 8pm

   Molly’s Game is a film I thoroughly enjoyed watching. This movie is based on true events therefore the director had to portray the story to make it seem realistic in time. The basis of the story is this girl Molly who gets herself into gambling at first not doing anything illegal and dealing with famous people. Then it starts to take a turn when she starts to take a cut from the pot and starts to get into some sticky situations regarding the new people, she allows into her porker game. I can see how Molly narrates the story line can seem to be so fast and hard to get all of it. However, that may have been intentional because potentially to Molly being involved with so many high stakes people in such a high stakes game where she gets involved up in lots of money and drugs, I can see how that time in her life probably flew by just as fast and the director wanted to portray that as if we were there living Molly’s life with her. One part that I thoroughly enjoyed is that after Molly was caught for her poker game, she never wanted to put anyone under the bus of who played in the poker game. At the end of the day, she wanted to stay true to herself and take the full blame. Overall, a good movie with great acting and film making.
5. Remi Young 10.03.23 / 3pm

   The film Molly’s Game is a very enjoyable film based on true events which makes it even more exciting to watch. The form of the film is very interesting in the way that it shows Molly throughout the different times in her life leading up to how her story ends. This film seems to show a lot of close-up psychological points of view from Molly and what she was thinking when certain events took place. The plot of this story goes through different timelines which is a common reoccurrence in my favorite movies. Overall this is a very riveting movie that keeps you on your toes and thrills the viewers.

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