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who described it as "a flawed-but-charming comedy that highlights the bad, embraces the good, and does both out of love. Watch it with your friends. Think about it. Pick it apart. The filmmakers' intent, as I understand it, was to keep people talking, and to have fun doing it. In that, at the very
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Cass starts seriously learning the game and while at the beginning he is at a low level, he later discovers that his friend Leo is also an old player of the game who has now quit and is willing to teach him. Cass becomes a skilled player and meets
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Meach's king to seat in the God Head Seat. Cass accepts the offer and wins the tournament. Later
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