Lotto win – “six correct”: throw the money away!

Anyone who plays for money wants to win, nothing else. But who likes winners? Not even this likes themselves. The sympathies are always among the losers. But you can’t buy anything from sympathy, and you have to buy to survive. So it is the big dream of all losers to be one of the winners. Until they are – by chance – once.

Then the profit breaks over them like a power of fate – but the expected great happiness fails. On the contrary, now the dangers are lurking, real and imaginary. The old life full of gathering and uncertainty, which somehow trusted you, may even be nice. Instead of sympathy you suddenly arouse envy. Winners feel the winner. How did you earn that?

Exactly, you didn’t deserve anything, that is the problem with sudden wealth. As quickly as he came, he can disappear again. Dostojewski, for example, only came to Baden-Baden to play in the casino. He lost everything, but couldn’t stop playing, after all he had to regain the lost. Until he had lost more than he owned, even his wife’s clothes played and finally sat on a huge mountain of debt. The reputable writer then had to try to remove it somehow – now by excessive work. What he wrote and still wanted to write was all seized by creditors. So you will certainly get hardworking, but not necessarily happy.

Gambling, which should be called misfortune game, is “six correct” by Romain Choay and Maxime Govare. What used to be the casino is the stock exchange today. You play and woe to those who win at the beginning – he will check off every upcoming loss as temporarily and continue to play until the bitter end.

“Six correct” deals with gambling as a popular sport, also called Lotto. Some even have a lottery subscription, with or without a system, and don’t even have to tick the numbers themselves. Documentation about it would be an action -packed enough, but this is a comedy, albeit one of a special kind. Or simply said how every plan of happiness finally turns into a haphazard misfortune.

Half of all the main lottery winners, the LADENUO GOVARE & CHOAY read, were ruined after four years. The excessive profit as an inconsistent self -destruction? Everything distrust is suddenly blown away, the profit is cheered as a solution to all problems. And with that the winners go into the trap, one by one. That doesn’t just sound like a cinematic comment on Max Stirner’s pioneering anarcho manifest “The only one and his property”, that is an adorable proof of its correctness in the form of a deep black comedy.

Half a dozen bitterly stories circle in this episode film about the lottery win and what he does in the life of individuals. This is only fun if you are ready to laugh about the absurd traffic of happiness and misfortune. In other words, if you have the damage, you will also get the ridicule for free.

Basically, this French production of the Anglo -Saxon view of comedy follows, which is always a tragedy. Those who mistakenly consider themselves to be winners are not only threatened here or less minor inconvenience, but even the loss of their own head. Is cruelty strange? Romain Choay calls Quentin Tarantinos “Pulp Fiction” a role model for “six correct”. Several stories are grouped around a single topic.

In half a dozen episodes, the supposed happiness of winning is brought to his nasty core: greed for money, sometimes also after love. A lottery win is “like a particle accelerator,” explain the two directors – and consistently implement this speed approach.

At the beginning we see Paul (terrific as a hopeless loser type: Fabrice Eboué) in the car and wife (disappointed from life to apathy: Audrey Lamy) and the two half -female children on the way on vacation. Inexpensive, of course, a visit to the grandma. Every form of anticipation has long been behind them.

When she cleans up his glove compartment on the way, a few old lottery buttons fall into her hand. Out of boredom, she compares the numbers with the winning lists in the newspaper. You have the main prize – but the deadline to pick it up has almost passed. Five million euros – but only ten minutes left to register in a lottery company in Marseille. Now the staunch family man is becoming a rambo at the helms and losers’ images. He manages to be there on time – but has to go to prison because of severe rowdytums. His exams are not yet over.

A young woman who dreams of great love is lucky in the game – which she should have been suspicious – and wins ten million euros in the lottery. And suddenly there is a good -looking young man who falls in love with her. In her or just in your money? There is the suicide bomber in the Paris Metro, who, shortly before he ignites the bomb, notices that he won forty million in the lottery. Or the nurse in the old people’s home, in which lottery player Henri has just learned that he has won sixty million euros – and suffered a fatal heart attack. The lottery collective is now taking on the lottery box. Enough for everyone to live carefree in the incisive wealth? No, it seems that a curse is on the profit – or is it mere hysteria?

They rush from disaster to disaster, nothing remains of all the promises of happiness. “Six correct” in France has already achieved cult status as a furious statement against the dance around the golden calf. Throw the money away before it destroys you!

No coincidence that only Paul, the notorious loser, is lucky in the end. Albeit in a very minimalist variant. Or is it nothing if you don’t stay alone in your misfortune?

“Six correct ones. Happiness is not for beginners «, director and book: Romain Choay and Maxime Govare. With Fabrice Eboué, Audrey Lamy, Anouk Grinberg, among other things, France 2024, 103 min.