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...Bobby lacks the eloquence and focus of Allen, haltingly explains how he intended to make a scripted film about a road trip to Las Vegas with his estranged father, George (Ali Zahedi) and half-brother, Amin (Amin Zahedi). But Bobby could not procure the funding and instead he grabbed this opportunity to create a film that proves the existence...
...next scene opens on the day before Christmas in George's home in Los Angeles, where Zahedi's teenage half-brother Amin refuses to do the movie unless Zahedi pays him more money. A flustered Zahedi wavers between angry coercion and pleading persuasion, only to be saved by his father, who agrees to pay Amin out of his own pocket...
...control when he wants to, but when he does consciously attempt to take over, he fails. The audience experiences both these inabilities on the trip to Vegas. In the car, Bobby panics because to the evident lack of interesting events. He decides to reenact a scene where Amin yells at George, abandoning his entire premise for the movie. But the reenactment sounds contrived and Bobby despairs. The bumpy and tire-some car ride finally ends in their Las Vegas hotel suite...
...this confession and Bobby's initial speech on his faith in God reflects the schizophrenic quality of the movie which produces a dizzying effect, also revealing the ill-suited merger of this amorphic style and Bobby's own controlling impulses. Questions to the crew like, "Should I just let [Amin] be in a bad mood?" further illustrate Bobby's incapacity for letting God take over...
...this betrayal of his initial premise does not phase Bobby. Instead, he cajoles, yells, whines and wheedles George and Amin. Indeed, he even disregards his father's heart problem by blatantly lying to him about the dangerous effects of Ecstasy. After five grueling hours, Bobby relents and takes his hit of Ecstasy while George and Amin retreat to the gambling tables in the lobby...