I love this movie.

When looking into the opal for the first time, Howie is mesmerized by it’s beauty and fantasizes about his big break at being rich. (Holy shit, I’m gonna cum.) When Kevin Garnet does, he sees his childhood, he sees his yearbook picture, he sees the Ethiopian Jews, he sees his future. He essentially has a spiritual experience with the gem. Toward the end of the movie, when Howie is reunited with the opal after the auction, he…