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Thursday 24 September 2015

The Bet.

There is a new movie coming out called the "Bet". Individuals in a community choose to bet on the most innocuous happenings in an individual's life. They sabotage aspects of his life to try and secure the odds as they bet against him negatively. It is dramatized with the emotion and editing of an action-drama and with several near misses concerning death and dismemberment. The movie is not depicted in the gangland 1920's but in 1995 which makes it even more shocking as an American tale. They cut brake cables, sabotage his family home, betting on a divorce and family dissolution and then the members of the community still go to church on Sunday or Saturday. In the end, the authorities calculate the amount of criminal damage, near fatal poisonings, scalp burnings, scarring and accidents any one individual could suffer with greater frequency after graduating from chiropractic school. They eventually record and notice significant cash payments amongst the community members and see evidence of a conspiracy to murder. Someone in the community bought a coffin and put money in it hoping to "will" the individual's death. That same individual, possibly Catholic or Wesleyan, told the young man to work twice as hard in school while the young man was growing up and so the young man worked accordingly. It was not to show off but he was a little ethnically diverse or native and had to hedge against the phenomenon of race in society. You can never know who your teacher is perfectly but you can know the syllabus and the marking or grading scheme. But, now all they chant under their breath is that "...he will not leave us." Something quite profound, generational and emotional was going on in the community. Eventually, every bet payment as timed with a suspicious incident to improve the odds on the said bets was considered a conspiracy to murder. You do not have to succeed in such a conspiracy for it to be an offence. Watch it soon on Blu ray and in a major theatre release. The title of the movie is the "Bet" or "Love Thy Neighbor".

The copyright to this story and screen play is owned by Warren Augustine Lyon.

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