In the discussion (7)
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- Eddie’s liquor-wholesaling and possible bootlegging business are clarified
- Eddie’s tournament forfeit and sudden rejection of hustling are criticized as insufficiently dramatized
- The Amos hustle is defended as a crisis that makes Eddie value excellence and honest victory; his private celebration after beating Vincent demonstrates that change
- Eddie is interpreted as believing he is in a sports movie while Vincent reveals they remain in a con-man movie
- The defense is rebutted because Eddie invented and taught the con before abruptly disavowing it
- Vincent’s claim that Eddie used the young pair is interpreted as Eddie using their journey to rediscover his passion
- A late-night bar conversation with Helen Shaver is proposed as the missing explanatory scene