A film that is an excellent lesson that teaches how to take a lovable youth game and turn it into a numbing pulp. I have an ongoing argument with my eldest son who, in his teenage years, completely abandoned the board games and pitched his tent in front of the screen and various PlayStations. I argue that all PlayStation games are exactly the same – some person/warrior running from place to place killing enemies. On the other hand, the son tells me, “That’s right. So what”.
I don’t have much to argue against such an answer. “Ladders and Ropes” was not much more sophisticated. If the dice determined – you fell. If she showed you kindness, you climbed. This is how we argue over and over, that is, if he intends to take his eyes off the screen for a second, and his other eye continues to steal glances at a Tiktok/YouTube video that he is following at the same time (they have long since stopped, these young creatures, being content with one screen), and at the end of The argument will always reach the “monopoly”. That is, I will assert the winning claim in which I will declare, “Show me something from your games that mentions ‘Monopoly'”, and in response he will answer me: lol…
For the younger ones, and also for the older ones who are looking for a way to prove their point to the younger generation that they don’t understand anything, don’t sit down to watch the movie “Monopoly: The True Story”. If you did sit down together in front of the screen, it would take young people less than five minutes to go back to Call of Duty, and most likely That the adults among you will leave it a quarter of an hour to 20 minutes later and fall on the bed for a heavy nap.
Not that there is no new information in the film for most viewers. “Monopoly”, it turns out, has a history that dates back to 250 years ago in America. Basically, the game was invented by people who fought against the unlimited power of the rich, who under the auspices of capitalism created monopolies in the various fields of the economy, which made the rich richer and the poor poorer.
The growing inequality infuriated many, and one inventor even created a successful game called “Anti-Monopoly”. A fierce and passionate legal battle began between him and the company that distributed the “Monopoly” game itself, and the question of reflecting pig capitalism in the game came up for discussion, and also Discussed at length in the film. In addition, the point of the personal gaming experience, which creates an inner being between the game and the player and the other players, is repeated and discussed at length in the film. And whoever understands the last sentence I wrote here – rehabilitation.
This is more or less what happens in the movie “Monopoly: The True Story”. As an average viewer, disgusted by the abundance of political screaming and reality shows of all kinds, I have, up to a certain limit, a willingness to exercise my brain a little more and a certain desire to learn from the TV movies I watch. The movie “Monopoly : the real story” stretches this willingness far beyond what is conceivable, and certainly at the end of a working day.
“Monopoly” was a favorite game of ours in our youth, and there the movie surely stimulates some desire to indulge and also an opportunity to prove to the younger generation what a glorious past they are missing out on in their addiction to monotonous screen games. But the pleasure ends in the name of the film and turns into something between anger and fatigue as the film progresses through the hassles and minutiae. In light of this, one can only hope that a similar film about chess will not be made soon, if only I could remember how to play it.
# See or give up: mind blowing as it should be. Don’t even come close.
“Monopoly: The True Story”, Yes VOD