Talk:House of Games

Unsatisfactory description of plot ending
The plot does not simply end with Margaret simply being able to forgive herself. The movie is more suggestive of other things. At the end of the movie, Margaret does what she was not able to do before, namely steal. She is in a restaurant and a woman is sitting besides her at another table. Margaret sees the woman light up a cigarette. After the woman puts the lighter away, Margaret asks the woman to please look over to the buffet to see what they're serving. When the woman does that, Margaret slips her hands into the woman's handbag and retrieves the gold lighter. The woman never realises that. Margaret lights up her cigarette and the story ends there.

What do you think the director is trying to tell us with this last scene? It's much more than simply that Margaret is able to forgive herself. Has Margaret become somewhat of a con-woman herself? Perhaps. And perhaps, even able to con people into believing that she has forgiven herself. And so, now who is being conned? The audience? 71.146.17.104 (talk) 02:48, 15 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Find a source. Focomoso (talk) 07:49, 17 October 2009 (UTC)