A GAME ISN’T ‘THE GAME’

     Every game can’t be a game every time. Maybe,  game isn’t a game. It’s name may be different. Called ‘the game’ may not be the game. Let’s try to understand what is it that we called ‘game’.

     In this film , there is something misleading. We can think both there is a game and there isn’t a game. I think there isn’t any game. So, what were the all things that experienced? If it isn’t a game, what is it? To find the answer these questions, let’s review the film.

     I won’t  tell the whole film. You already know what was happened.  I will give just a few examples to prove that it isn’t a game. Actually, it is too complicated. I even find it hard to understand. Anyway, I’ll try to explain that it isn’t a game.

     In the film, there are some scenes and events that they prove that there isn’t a game. When Nicholas went to CRS, he asked what they were doing. Justice replied that there was a game. If there was a game, why Justice said it. Also, game must be funny. But if it was a game, why this game didn’t make Nicholas happy.  On the contrary, there were dangerous things that they could kill Nicholas. They were only arrangements to celebrate the Nichola’s birthday. Nicholas had everything. He was an investment banker. Nicholas had so a lot of money that it could be meaningless to gift him an ordinary gift. So, his brother thought to arrange something different to Nicholas. He accomplished it. Nicholas had a thing that it never can’t  be his. He had the meaning of life thanks to his brother’s birhday gift. His brother gave this gift to Nicholas. It wasn’t a game. It was a gift. One who had all things understood the meaning of life. In this gift, not a game, Nicholas experienced everything. He felt fear. He experienced poverty. He was faced with death. This gift was a really useful gift for Nicholas to understand that life wasn’t having everything. I want to touch on a point. Actually, Nicholas was a weak man personally.  Namely, he wanted to die when he shot his brother. There wasn’t any thing anymore. He hadn’t anything. Nicholas lost everything.  He shot and killed his brother on the top of it. Eventually, he wanted to die. But he didn’t die. Because of his brother’s gift, he survived.

     All of things were a gift to Nicholas from his brother. A gift that everyone should experience it. Although we haven’t got everything like Nicholas, we also don’t know the meaning of our lifes. I wish someone would gave me such an extraordinary gift. Then, I even could understand the meaning of my life.

AYŞE BALIN