I saw this movie this winter vacation. Since it had been in theaters last summer vacation, I had always curious about it. This movie is talking about the issue of "gambling." It's an adaption of the novel, "Bringing down the House."
In the story, Ben Campell was one of the most gifted students in MIT who couldn't pay his tuition. However, he found himself taking a part of a secret plan. One brilliant statistics professor of MIT knew how to counting card. This professor found six the most gifted students in MIT and teaching them all the skills. They used weekends to go to Las Vegas. This team armed with fake IDs and succeeds in breaking the impenetrable casinos.
After the triumphs, Ben seemed to lose himself. At the first, his goal was to save enough money for his tuition of college. Because he had indulged himself in luxury, he couldn't give up gambling and get away. Besides, he also got into the trouble because he became a target of casinos for counting cards. He even lost his best friends for he was always busy in gambling. Moreover, he had a quarrel with the statistics professor and lost all the money he got from casinos.
In the end, he helped the casino's staff to arrest the statistics professor who was also the target several years ago. Although he still couldn't get enough money for tuition, he won the scholarship because of this special experience.
When people in great success, they're easy to lose themselves. I've heard a sentence, "power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely." , which I think is very fair enough. How to control emotion is important for everyone to learn. This is one thing I learned from the movie.
