American psychologist John Holden arrives in London to participate in a symposium aiming to expose witchcraft and devil-worship as a fraud, with attention centered on a cult run by a Julian Karswell. Debarking his plane, Holden learns that the symposium leader, Henry Harrington, has suddenly died and he is now in charge. What only the audience knows is that Harrington was clearly killed by a demon, apparently summoned by Karswell to avenge his persecution. Despite both threatening and cajoling behavior by Karswell, Holden determines to proceed, though the only cult member willing to talk about his experiences is in a prison psychiatric ward, catatonic after allegedly killing yet another cult member. However, Harrington's niece, Joanna, believes, based on her uncle's notes, that Karswell may indeed have some satanic powers derived from an ancient tome in an obscure language which he has been able to translate, and attempts to warn the skeptic Holden. Karswell's mother also attempts to warn Holden off. However, the thing which begins to most get to Holden are the occasional, but mounting, sensory and mental disturbances he begins experiencing after an encounter with Karswell, and the discovery that, during this encounter, Karswell secretly slipped a slip of parchment with a curse in runic symbols on it into Holden's belongings, a parchment identical to one Harrington recorded having had passed to him in a similar manner shortly before his death... [N.B. Holden at no point stays at the Karswell estate].
Oscar Isaac很迷人，但劇本有點過時
看到监狱的部分有惊喜，但和算牌始终有点割裂，如果只讲虐囚会不会好一些？
音乐不错。除此之外，一部无聊的烂片，导演故弄玄虚，可惜很多内容不能引起共鸣。很多枝枝蔓蔓毫无意义。为什么很多人推崇呢，实在搞不懂。烂片。
本来以为是一部赌片，结果又是一部战后ptsd的片子。两种情节穿插在一起，整个片子的节奏都很慢，只是力度完全不一样，在打牌的时候很稳很平和，离开牌桌后，男主的动作和习惯以及和cirk的对话，却充满了力度。还不错
又是个恩怨情仇的故事，终归是仇占了上风、主宰了生活，爱则一如既往的坚强——在电影里。
德扑只是一个噱头，一个包装罢了。本来就缺少必要的戏剧冲突，再不包装一下，岂不是半个小时就讲完了？
La rédemption d’une âme tourmentée.
15-022英国《算牌人》
有些镜头蛮有意思的，大段的广角和监狱里的百态，很妙。
能理解导演想表达的意思，许多镜头设计也很好，看了许多评论，确实导演反类型，反高潮的风格，不是我的菜。
行走江湖的传说，一段悲痛回忆背后的成长，带有浓厚大卫林奇风格的镜头语言和配乐，却是有些一丝斯科塞斯的人物设定，堪称精彩
2.5 救贖、孤獨、日記獨白、夜間流離的戲份都看得出 Taxi Driver 的影子，但Paul Schrader 始終不是 Martin Scorsese 啊
看完才明白为什么被各美国杂志评选成年度优秀电影之一，典型的“USA”式电影，外人感受不会那么深，再加上剧情冲突较弱，观众情绪无法带入，也就当作了解了一件事吧，今年奥斯卡能有这片一席之地。
7.5 施拉德赋予的独特气质，使其不同于其他美国电影。
4.0，某种能控制精神的调度。主观的、暧昧的表达，在前四分之三处堆积出了情绪的迷幻，欲罢不能。可惜最后又莫名开始写实？观感被迫抽离出来（和第一归正会相同的失败点）
有点半意识流的味道？节奏实属很慢了，但奥斯卡这个脸我真的还能再看五小时🥺
《第一归正会》中的喻体：环保议题本身与救赎主题无关，因此处理得游离且荒诞，拓展出黑色幽默式的修辞；这一部里的喻体其实就是赌牌，它仍然浮于主题的表面，却被刻画得抒情又板正，最终甚至导致了电影情境的崩盘——建议把《出租车司机》忘了吧！
6.2，小片子，讲美军虐囚事件，男主和《婚姻生活》男主是同一个人！！！
气质压倒叙事 氛围重于故事 迷幻的人声浅吟低唱 迷离的视角追溯过往 迷人的Isaac令我🐔叫
oscar的颜真对胃口啊，帮我撑着看完……
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