David Memet's House of Games was an awesome movie. The fact that the con artist was eventually the realest character in the film was very interesting. If you really think about it, he was. He tells her straight up, he's a con artist. She, in turn, lies to her clients, telling them that she can help them when in reality she's merely listening to their problems and making her own private conclusion. The con man says he lends confidence to everyone he cons. They feed off his confidence and a temporary, naive trust starts to build which paves the way for the con. She, however, lends false hope. Everyone who sees a psychologist is told they'll get better but few actually do.
The realest thing is the con itself. Living life the way she did, by the book, routine, and robotic isnt really living a real life. Life is full of emotions and unfortunately people have flaws (and make mistakes) but this woman had none. She never really let her emotions get the best of her or even do anything wrong until the end of the movie, when she started to live life normally.
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