Good Criminal? How many wrongs make a right?

Rating: 5/10 (27 May 2018)

Another in along line of American movies that glorifies and makes heroes of the act of skating the barely legal line for profit and self.
Molly Bloom's true story is a caper movie, except that her caper is a true story.
It's a reasonably made movie in the genre, flashy sets and costumes, idolizing the lifestyles of the rich and decadent, and in presenting it that way perpetuates the American dilemma of founding their culture on the self serving capitalist ahead of honest true and fair.
Molly sets up an empire founded on the rocks of gambling addiction, opulence, obscene wealth and the abuse of that wealth, and the act of trying to skate as close to the legal line as possible while skating well over the lines of Good, Honest, True and Fair, and idolizing that behavior, in this case apparently in the interests of entertainment but on another level in the interests of normalizing Molly's behavior, it's fair because most of it doesn't technically break the law,while being well aware of how far over the line it goes for the acts of building a good community in it's preying on the addicted and fraternizing in the seedy underworld.
Molly's guilty of pushing society in a bad direction, but this film does just as much to normalize the behavior and then the media machine that lauds Molly's efforts to do right by her 'wrong' customers and keep their secrets secret, how many levels of wrong are we going down to come up with a right?
Go watch some interviews after watching this movie and look at the media scrambling to paint Molly as a role model for keeping her mouth shut.
It's a case of not seeing the forest for the trees. Her act of loyalty is seen as good except it's loyalty to a sick society, granted loyalty against another sick portion of the same society, the messed up law enforcement sector.
There's so many levels of wrong from this kind of movie, and this movie in particular, and it's all wrapped up in an easily digestible entertainment package.
This is a loose for everyone involved, audience, Molly, film makers, media, society in general, but technically it's a well made piece of cinema so points for that.
I feel bad for having watched it now.
And thanks for making me rant like a fundamentalist for noticing this stuff. Stop making this damaging rubbish and glorifying these people. The only plus was there wasn't much in the way of graphic violence and lovingly portrayed gun play, well, apart from her beating.