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Wolff relishes the many deceits and indiscretions he commits in his pursuit of Internet riches and, after this brief hiatus, he redoubles his efforts to hoodwink the financier-partners he believes are out to swindle him.
Even so, his Delphic statement of principles might hoodwink conservatives and moderates.
David Mamet--who, coincidentally, wrote Connery's marvelous dialogue in that movie--gave the American theater a brusque shove out of the romantic realm of disillusioned lefties such as Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller into a brutal capitalist realism, wherein every encounter was reduced to an attempt by one party to hoodwink, psych out, or otherwise overpower another.
The unease Kubrick generates is a little like Mamet's: You can't tell if everyone sounds so phony because they're all part of a scheme to hoodwink the protagonists or because Kubrick has forgotten how human beings talk.