My life in Pink

The movie 21 is about a group of MIT students who broke the band in Sin City. The students defeated the Black Jack tables in Las Vegas by using their minds to count cards and win big. This movie portrays Vegas as a city where dreams can happen in a minute or your life could be over in matter of minutes. The movie was advertised with many different views about how Vegas is Sin City and it can either beat you or you beat Vegas. The main character is a very smart MIT student who realized Harvard Medical School is 300,000 dollar and he doesn't have the money for that. A group of students learn to count cards and plan to win big in Vegas. The main advertisement is the group of kids getting carried away with money, sex and living a double life than they would back at MIT.The Trailers for the movie are fast pasted and very exciting because it shows the group of kids embellishing in money and sex. The trailer first shows why the main character turns to counting cards and cheating his way through medical school. He realizes Harvard Medical School is 300,000 and he doesn’t have the money for it. So he teams up with a group of students to learn how to count cards and take over Vegas. After a couple of weekends of winning big he loses sight in why he was really there and spends a lot of money on living a new life which includes sex and women.The reason I chose to write about the movie is because gender my not be the main role in this film is sure does show how gender can influence certain decisions. After winning big in Vegas the kids start to loose sight why they are there and start to indulge in expensive clothes and stripers. They do this to live a double life and escape to a fantasy life where the only thing that matters is sex, alcohol and money. I don't like how they portray Vegas as nothing but sex and lies, the gender roles in this movie are mainly dominate by men but women are involved to be the second hand man if something goes wrong. These portrayals show gender roles in a negative way because of many different things. First off the main roles are dominated by men and the women are just their for show. The males are the smart ones who count the cards and the women are just there for looks which shouldn't be acceptable. Women are just as smart as men and they can be the lead card counter if they really wanted to. Lastly when the students start winning it shows them going to strip clubs and throwing around money like no one else exist to them. I don’t like this because it shows that if you don't have money than you are important to this society and they is the last thing we need when fixing this society