Even after spending much time in class to watch Ocean’s Eleven and try to discuss the film, many students continued to show their confusion about the content of this movie. Herein is a brief explanation of this movie as understood by the teacher of this class without much consultation of secondary sources.
At first glance, it would seem that this movie is simply about stealing money from a casino. This would seem to be the most common theme of the movie as evidenced by students’ understandings of the movie prior to finishing it in class. However, sometimes the main things are not in fact the main things. In that case, we have to look at the implicit meaning of the movie.
There are three scenes prior to the end of the movie that seem to foreshadow the underlying story of this movie. The first is when Daniel finds Tess at the casino he is preparing the team to rob. The second is when Rusty confronts Daniel on his real intentions of robbing the casino, which have very little, if anything, to do with money. The third is when Daniel says goodbye to Tess. The scene where Terry chooses money over Tess shows that Daniel’s intention all along was to get Tess back and that he was willing to risk his own criminal record as well as those of his cohorts to prove this love to Tess. In the end Tess learned that Benedict loved money more than her and that Daniel loved Tess more than his own reputation.
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