Thrillers and horror use coin flips, roulette wheels, contracts, and rigged...

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Thrillers and horror use coin flips, roulette wheels, contracts, and rigged games to ramp up dread by putting fate on a knife’s edge. In No Country for Old Men, a simple coin toss decides who lives or dies, making uncertainty a brutal, personal force