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* WaxingLyrical: Jake's line [[Music/PinkFloyd "Shine on]], [[Music/WishYouWereHere you crazy diamond".]]
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* WaxingLyrical: Jake's line [[Music/PinkFloyd "Shine on]], [[Music/WishYouWereHere [[Music/WishYouWereHere1975 you crazy diamond".]]
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* {{Claustrophobia}}: Jake is claustrophobic as a result of spending seven years and solitary confinement and hates riding in elevators.
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Two years after getting out of prison, Jake Green (Creator/JasonStatham) seeks revenge on the casino boss Dorothy Macha (Creator/RayLiotta) who put him there. The boss Macha orders his assassination, but Green is saved by two mysterious loan sharks. Massive MindScrew ensues.
* ArcNumber: The number 32 comes up repeatedly. The lift that Jake enters near the end of the movie has buttons for 32 floors. As per Ritchie's commentary:
-->The chess game has many mystical meanings. The Temple of Solomon was chequered like a chessboard, which has 64 squares and 32 pieces...32 floors: 32 vertebrae in your back, 32 teeth in your mouth, 32 chess pieces on a chessboard. On the same lift, the floor seems to be stuck between the 12 and the 14 floor placing Jake on the 13 floor.
-->The chess game has many mystical meanings. The Temple of Solomon was chequered like a chessboard, which has 64 squares and 32 pieces...32 floors: 32 vertebrae in your back, 32 teeth in your mouth, 32 chess pieces on a chessboard. On the same lift, the floor seems to be stuck between the 12 and the 14 floor placing Jake on the 13 floor.
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* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: Jake Green, who has {{claustrophobia}}, battles his [[MindScrew ego]] when he gets trapped in an elevator. What follows is a scene that looks straight out of the last episode of ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''.
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* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: Jake Green, who has {{claustrophobia}}, battles his [[MindScrew ego]] ego when he gets trapped in an elevator. What follows is a scene that looks straight out of the last episode of ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''.
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* ChainLinkFence: The protagonist escapes over a wooden fence and his pursuer tries to follow him with a shotgun in one hand. [[ShurFineGuns He drops it. Ouch.]]
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* ChainLinkFence: The protagonist Jake escapes over a wooden fence and his pursuer tries to follow him with a shotgun in one hand. [[ShurFineGuns He drops it. Ouch.]]
* ColorMotifs: The main character is named Jake Green, because according to Ritchie, the color green is the central column of the spectrum. Meanwhile, Dorothy Macha is seen in blue and Lord Wu is seen in red.
-->'''Ritchie''': Blood is red, and blood belongs next to black. So, there's three columns: green is central column, white is right column, black is left column. Everything manifests in processes of three, so you've got: proton, neutron, electron; Sun, Earth, Moon; masculine, feminine, child. Wherever you're going to go, you're going to see a manifestation of '3'. So you've got Zach (or "Isaac"), Avi and Jake: a process of three. They represent positive, negative and filament, where Jake is the central column. Blood is red, which belongs to the left column, black is extreme left column. So it's the idea that white blood cells are 'mercy', and red blood cells are 'judgement'. Right is positive and left is negative.
-->'''Ritchie''': Blood is red, and blood belongs next to black. So, there's three columns: green is central column, white is right column, black is left column. Everything manifests in processes of three, so you've got: proton, neutron, electron; Sun, Earth, Moon; masculine, feminine, child. Wherever you're going to go, you're going to see a manifestation of '3'. So you've got Zach (or "Isaac"), Avi and Jake: a process of three. They represent positive, negative and filament, where Jake is the central column. Blood is red, which belongs to the left column, black is extreme left column. So it's the idea that white blood cells are 'mercy', and red blood cells are 'judgement'. Right is positive and left is negative.
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* NoOneSeesTheBoss: "Nobody sees Sam Gold. But Gold sees ''everything''".He does exist. ''Kinda''. [[spoiler:But he's all in your head. Sorta. He's in everybody's heads. MetaphoricallyTrue. And he's also Satan. Maybe. This movie is weird like that]].
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* ThoseTwoBadGuys: Three, actually - TooDumbToLive: Sorter is clearly uncomfortable about Paul's interrogation techniques. When he complains, the Three Eddies.bad guy threatens him with "Question me again, Sorter, and we will have a falling out.". They do indeed have a falling out.
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* WhatsInItForMe: This is a recurring question Macha keeps asking, as show by his insatiable greed. He even lectures others on importance of always getting something out of any given deal, no matter how small, just to show that you're the boss.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Jake is claustrophobic as a result of spending seven years and solitary confinement and hates riding in elevators.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Jake is claustrophobic as a result of spending seven years and solitary confinement and hates riding in elevators.
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* ShoutOut: Jake's line [[Music/PinkFloyd "Shine on]], [[Music/WishYouWereHere you crazy diamond".]]
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* TactfulTranslation: There's a scene where Lord John endlessly abuses Macha's men in Cantonese, while the translator expresses this in very to the point and non-offensive words.
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* MediumBlending: The film has [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment one scene]] in which the events and aftermath of a heist are shown in cartoon form, on a TV, ''during the heist!''
* MindScrew: Very, very much so.
* MindScrew: Very, very much so.
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''Revolver'' is a 2005 psychological thriller by Creator/GuyRitchie.
Two years after getting out of prison, Jake Green (Creator/JasonStatham) seeks revenge on the casino boss who put him there. The boss orders his assassination, but Green is saved by two mysterious loan sharks. Massive MindScrew ensues.
Has nothing to do with Music/TheBeatles' [[Music/RevolverBeatlesAlbum album]] of [[SimilarlyNamedWorks the same name]].
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* AmbiguousEnding: Does the ending mean that [[spoiler: Zach and Avi/Jake's cellmates never existed except in his head, or are they really people who got a chance to realize his problems with his ego while they were in jail together and launched a BatmanGambit to snap him out of it]]?
* BatmanGambit: Zach, Avi and Jake all specialise in these. "The more control the victim thinks he has, the less control he actually has." Essentially, their plans revolve around giving their victims just enough rope to hang themselves.
* BigBad: Dorothy Macha is this, being the primary antagonist to Jake Green.
* ChainLinkFence: The protagonist escapes over a wooden fence and his pursuer tries to follow him with a shotgun in one hand. [[ShurFineGuns He drops it. Ouch.]]
* ChessMotifs: Quite frequently, with the similarity between chess and cons being a pervasive theme.
* ColdSniper: Sorter, quite frequently.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Macha, once he realises he has nothing and nobody anymore.]]
* DyingMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler:Sorter, who goes on a rampage against his own gang in order to stop them [[WouldHurtAChild killing a child]].]]
* TheEndingChangesEverything: [[spoiler:Knowing that Zach and Avi were Jake's neighbours in prison, and thus really have been conning him all along, lends a very different perspective to the first half of the film in particular]].
* EnemyCivilWar: Avi, Zeke and Jake start one between the gangs of Macha and Lord John.
* EnemyWithin: All the main characters are essentially fighting this battle. Jake, Avi, Zach and [[spoiler:Sorter]] succeed in rejecting the ego's rules. Macha does not and succumbs to it.
* FourEyesZeroSoul: Sorter plays it straight [[spoiler:but subverts it at the end, having completed his spiritual awakening. He proves to be exactly as dangerous an enemy to Macha as he was an ally.]]
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: [[spoiler: Mach, once he realises that he cannot conquer his ego.]]
* GreaterScopeVillain: The scary, all-knowing crime lord Sam Gold is [[spoiler:a subversion. He's ultimately revealed to be powerless, only having anything because of what people invest in him, with the investors actually controlling everything.]]
* HeelFaceTurn:[[spoiler:Sorter, a result of a gradual spiritual awakening that begins with his failed assassination attempt on Green at the start of the film, and culminated in refusing an order to kill a litle girl.]]
* HitmanWithAHeart: [[spoiler:Sorter]] shoots his fellow henchmen rather than watch them hurt a little girl.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Sorter. In one scene, when he decides that he wants to get rid of the henchmen, he ''blows'' a hole through the wall to kill one guy.
* {{Jerkass}}: Barring Jake, everyone else is this to varying degrees with Lord John close to the top of the list, being an obnoxious, murderous gangster who treats his closest friends like garbage.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Sorter uses a bullet to prevent the sociopathic Paul from killing a little girl, along with most of the rest of the gang thereafter. Though the fact that it's a clean death undermines the associated karma, as Paul gave in life far worse to many of his victims.]]
* MacGuffin: Macha's drugs, which serve as a mechanism for the conflict only.
* MindScrew: Very, very much so.
* MeaningfulName: Mr. Green and Mr. Gold are both incredibly rich.
* NoOneSeesTheBoss: "Nobody sees Gold. But Gold sees ''everything''".
* ThePlan: Zach and Avi seem pretty good at these
* {{Ponzi}}: How Jake makes his money back once out of prison.
* PornStache: Jake's got one.
* PosthumousCharacter: The Three Eddies are all dead before the events of the story begin, their role in the plot being explained via flashback and exposition.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge:[[spoiler:Sorter goes on one after finally conquering his ego. This does not end well for Macha's gang.]]
* RuleOfSymbolism: The movie is rife with references to [[UsefulNotes/{{Kabbalah}} Kabbalic faith]]. For example Avi, Zach and Jake are named after the three patriarchs (Abraham, Isaac and Jacob) and each character represents one of the three pillars in Kabbalah.
* ScaryBlackMan: Paul, Macha's [[TheDragon Dragon]], a remorseless torturer and assassin.
* TheSociopath: Paul. Also Lord John.
* ShadowDictator: It's never really stated whether Sam Gold really exists. He has no power, one way or the other.
* ShaggyDogStory: Sorter's plot is ultimately this.[[spoiler:He refuses to shoot the little girl, kills Paul and Macha's entire gang, only for Slim Biggins to put a bullet in his head after he think's he's killed the last of them. The girl is still captured and her father presumably killed. Downplayed though in that the demise of the entire Macha's gang seems to be a major factor in his eventual suicide.]]
* ShoutOut: Jake's line [[Music/PinkFloyd "Shine on]], [[Music/WishYouWereHere you crazy diamond".]]
* SmartPeoplePlayChess: Jake and Avi do so frequently.
* StealTheSurroundings: Used when Avi, Zeke and Jake steal Macha's safe where the drugs are being kept. The safe is stated to be nigh-impenetrable, so they just rip it right out of the wall and take their sweet time breaking into it later.
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: Three, actually - the Three Eddies.
* TheUnseen: Sam Gold is repeatedly referred to but never seen. [[spoiler:This reflects the fact that he doesn't exist in any real sense; all his power is an illusion created by his investors.]]
* UnreliableNarrator: Jake's version of how the Three Eddies met their deaths is inaccurate - Zeke and Avi provide the correct version later.
* VillainousBreakdown: Macha, during the climax of the film, where he points a gun at Jake and threatens to kill him, only to burst into tears.
* WriterOnBoard: The film seemed set to be the next awesome Creator/GuyRitchie crime film, but what had appeared at first to be a rather promising plot eventually turned out to be a MindScrew[=y=] delivery system for the Kabbalistic beliefs Ritchie picked up during his marriage to Music/{{Madonna}}.
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"You can only become smarter by playing a smarter opponent."'']]
''Revolver'' is a 2005 psychological thriller by Creator/GuyRitchie.
Two years after getting out of prison, Jake Green (Creator/JasonStatham) seeks revenge on the casino boss who put him there. The boss orders his assassination, but Green is saved by two mysterious loan sharks. Massive MindScrew ensues.
Has nothing to do with Music/TheBeatles' [[Music/RevolverBeatlesAlbum album]] of [[SimilarlyNamedWorks the same name]].
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!!"Your mind will not accept a trope this big.":
* AmbiguousEnding: Does the ending mean that [[spoiler: Zach and Avi/Jake's cellmates never existed except in his head, or are they really people who got a chance to realize his problems with his ego while they were in jail together and launched a BatmanGambit to snap him out of it]]?
* BatmanGambit: Zach, Avi and Jake all specialise in these. "The more control the victim thinks he has, the less control he actually has." Essentially, their plans revolve around giving their victims just enough rope to hang themselves.
* BigBad: Dorothy Macha is this, being the primary antagonist to Jake Green.
* ChainLinkFence: The protagonist escapes over a wooden fence and his pursuer tries to follow him with a shotgun in one hand. [[ShurFineGuns He drops it. Ouch.]]
* ChessMotifs: Quite frequently, with the similarity between chess and cons being a pervasive theme.
* ColdSniper: Sorter, quite frequently.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Macha, once he realises he has nothing and nobody anymore.]]
* DyingMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler:Sorter, who goes on a rampage against his own gang in order to stop them [[WouldHurtAChild killing a child]].]]
* TheEndingChangesEverything: [[spoiler:Knowing that Zach and Avi were Jake's neighbours in prison, and thus really have been conning him all along, lends a very different perspective to the first half of the film in particular]].
* EnemyCivilWar: Avi, Zeke and Jake start one between the gangs of Macha and Lord John.
* EnemyWithin: All the main characters are essentially fighting this battle. Jake, Avi, Zach and [[spoiler:Sorter]] succeed in rejecting the ego's rules. Macha does not and succumbs to it.
* FourEyesZeroSoul: Sorter plays it straight [[spoiler:but subverts it at the end, having completed his spiritual awakening. He proves to be exactly as dangerous an enemy to Macha as he was an ally.]]
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: [[spoiler: Mach, once he realises that he cannot conquer his ego.]]
* GreaterScopeVillain: The scary, all-knowing crime lord Sam Gold is [[spoiler:a subversion. He's ultimately revealed to be powerless, only having anything because of what people invest in him, with the investors actually controlling everything.]]
* HeelFaceTurn:[[spoiler:Sorter, a result of a gradual spiritual awakening that begins with his failed assassination attempt on Green at the start of the film, and culminated in refusing an order to kill a litle girl.]]
* HitmanWithAHeart: [[spoiler:Sorter]] shoots his fellow henchmen rather than watch them hurt a little girl.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Sorter. In one scene, when he decides that he wants to get rid of the henchmen, he ''blows'' a hole through the wall to kill one guy.
* {{Jerkass}}: Barring Jake, everyone else is this to varying degrees with Lord John close to the top of the list, being an obnoxious, murderous gangster who treats his closest friends like garbage.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Sorter uses a bullet to prevent the sociopathic Paul from killing a little girl, along with most of the rest of the gang thereafter. Though the fact that it's a clean death undermines the associated karma, as Paul gave in life far worse to many of his victims.]]
* MacGuffin: Macha's drugs, which serve as a mechanism for the conflict only.
* MindScrew: Very, very much so.
* MeaningfulName: Mr. Green and Mr. Gold are both incredibly rich.
* NoOneSeesTheBoss: "Nobody sees Gold. But Gold sees ''everything''".
* ThePlan: Zach and Avi seem pretty good at these
* {{Ponzi}}: How Jake makes his money back once out of prison.
* PornStache: Jake's got one.
* PosthumousCharacter: The Three Eddies are all dead before the events of the story begin, their role in the plot being explained via flashback and exposition.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge:[[spoiler:Sorter goes on one after finally conquering his ego. This does not end well for Macha's gang.]]
* RuleOfSymbolism: The movie is rife with references to [[UsefulNotes/{{Kabbalah}} Kabbalic faith]]. For example Avi, Zach and Jake are named after the three patriarchs (Abraham, Isaac and Jacob) and each character represents one of the three pillars in Kabbalah.
* ScaryBlackMan: Paul, Macha's [[TheDragon Dragon]], a remorseless torturer and assassin.
* TheSociopath: Paul. Also Lord John.
* ShadowDictator: It's never really stated whether Sam Gold really exists. He has no power, one way or the other.
* ShaggyDogStory: Sorter's plot is ultimately this.[[spoiler:He refuses to shoot the little girl, kills Paul and Macha's entire gang, only for Slim Biggins to put a bullet in his head after he think's he's killed the last of them. The girl is still captured and her father presumably killed. Downplayed though in that the demise of the entire Macha's gang seems to be a major factor in his eventual suicide.]]
* ShoutOut: Jake's line [[Music/PinkFloyd "Shine on]], [[Music/WishYouWereHere you crazy diamond".]]
* SmartPeoplePlayChess: Jake and Avi do so frequently.
* StealTheSurroundings: Used when Avi, Zeke and Jake steal Macha's safe where the drugs are being kept. The safe is stated to be nigh-impenetrable, so they just rip it right out of the wall and take their sweet time breaking into it later.
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: Three, actually - the Three Eddies.
* TheUnseen: Sam Gold is repeatedly referred to but never seen. [[spoiler:This reflects the fact that he doesn't exist in any real sense; all his power is an illusion created by his investors.]]
* UnreliableNarrator: Jake's version of how the Three Eddies met their deaths is inaccurate - Zeke and Avi provide the correct version later.
* VillainousBreakdown: Macha, during the climax of the film, where he points a gun at Jake and threatens to kill him, only to burst into tears.
* WriterOnBoard: The film seemed set to be the next awesome Creator/GuyRitchie crime film, but what had appeared at first to be a rather promising plot eventually turned out to be a MindScrew[=y=] delivery system for the Kabbalistic beliefs Ritchie picked up during his marriage to Music/{{Madonna}}.
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