With a high degree of integrity and personal discipline, Brown built a mini-empire that brought her wealth and made her name a household word in an underground economy.
You could understand how the real Molly Brown, who was just as beautiful, would have become a magnet for the high stakes players who showed up at the Cobra Lounge and later, her own digs after the break with Player X (Michael Cera). I've seen Jessica Chastain in a couple of other films ('Zero Dark Thirty', 'The Zookeeper's Wife'), but never this glamorous or gorgeous. Bloom (Jessica Chastain) eventually struck out on her own and became an even larger force in the gambling world. Having hung on long enough to learn the game and the major celebrity players involved, Ms. Then there was the jerk Dean Keith (Jeremy Strong) who hired her, and despite his irritating persona, introduced her to the world of high stakes poker gambling which the feisty woman took as a challenge and ran with. I'm thinking of the little sprig of pine needles that upended her Olympic trial run for which she was a virtual shoo-in. The thing that fascinates me about the life of Molly Bloom is how virtually inconsequential things in and of themselves can have such a major impact on one's life and career.
