Details are Important

I will consider House of Games a female character study movie. All the changes of dark and light help telling the story. What do we think of the main character Margaret? She was a psychiatrist, who studys human behavior and trys to explain them. However, in this movie, we found that she is actually the most interesting person that needed to be study. There are a lot of interesting details in this movie that need to be watched carefully because they are the truth teller. In this case, David Mamet made himself -- the direct the most important person for the movie, and actors are just doing minimized performance, so we don't expect them to tell the deep stuff directly. And what I like the most for the movie is that he made the trick, the crime and the bad things a kind of art. And it's beautiful. Exploring, hiding, resisting, appearing are parts of the art. A bridge that connect the reality with art is built here.