Victimization film #345

Rating: 3/10 (15 October 2018)

O dear - I thought I was going to watch a film about high-stakes poker and instead sat through yet another film about the victimization of Strong Capable women at the hands of rich, foolish but powerful men. Even Sigmund Freud is called a misogynistic oaf. Molly talks like a machine gun and seemingly knows EVERYTHING about EVERYTHING. And every man adores her and wants to date her, despite the fact she is unpleasant and ill-humoured throughout the entire film.
Anyway, the film should have spent more time on poker and less on Molly being victimized (she was, after all, the person who actually initialed these games). A successful film generally requires the viewer to sympathise with some party, but since just about everyone in Molly's Game is unpleasant and/or foolish, that is rather difficult. The one exception is her lawyer who seems a decent chap, and he should certainly be given sympathy because he appears to be doing all his work for free. For this, he gets hours of abuse from Molly. The film is based on Molly's own book, which I suspect is a bit of a white-wash and somewhat overdoes her own saintliness - I doubt that a woman who can mingle with such high-powered people, organize such poker games and earn such sums of money is really so clueless about whom she invites to games and so utterly selfless in her protection of others (especially given she clearly believes that they are all a bunch of rich arrogant scumbags). Mother Theresa of Calcutta move over - Saint Molly of New York is on the way......