the article and the comments here rather neatly miss the point of the movie. whether or not you have FU money (or what FU money is) is the wrong question. john

the article and the comments here rather neatly miss the point of the movie. whether or not you have FU money (or what FU money is) is the wrong question. john goodman, whom the article quotes, is not a protagonist. the safety goodman is describing is exactly what mark wahlberg cant stand. "You're born... as a man... with the nerves of a soldier, the apprehension of an angel, to lift a phrase, but there is no use for it. Here? Where's the use for it? You're set up to be a philosopher or a king or Shakespeare, and this is all they give you? This?" perhaps your first instinct is to think this is a first-world problem, an ignorance of privilege, but remember - wahlberg is in debt to two bookies that will likely kill him, and he triples down on a loan from a third who promises to kill not just him but also his whole bloodline. to whit: “The only thing worth doing is the impossible. Everything else is gray.”