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].
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。
有几个镜头从奥斯卡的侧脸几乎看到了德尼罗😂意料外非常色气的角色。跟玩牌关系不大
虐俘阴影祸后代，又成赎罪公路片。
故事本身也算有趣， 一个打着算牌的马甲。。。实际就是饱经沧桑的算牌人救赎和自我救赎的故事 可惜平淡无波男中音絮絮叨叨讲述自己经历和心路历程 再加上无病呻吟低沉背景音乐 不知道导演是不是想让观者在全程看与不看的挣扎与自我意志作斗争的过程 以此让观者感同身受男主心里挣扎 。。。。。。。
摄影和配乐都很好，但是故事不够戏剧化，多了真实感，却过于平淡让人食之无味，弃之可惜。
讲自我救赎的公路片，男主角的人设细节设计的很好，剧情拍的太平淡了，观感有点闷
没想到是忏悔录 跟赌博其实没几毛钱关系 节奏是真的慢 剧情也是靠猜
和导演之前几部片子一脉相承，charlie two chins那段乳华了妈的
关于赌博和虐囚部分都很不错 但主角帮助男孩和放弃比赛的动机仍然缺乏必然性
监狱闪回的痛苦 要"以你我的方式终结"拒绝了大男主路线
几首歌选的不错，特别片尾，坚持听完了。
不过中间确实看困了
7.5 导演拯救剧本。并非如通常般着重展现赌牌、监狱、报仇这样充满“男子气概”重头戏，转而聚焦情感的流动表达。
人生如牌局，男主的冷静与隐忍是为了做个社会化的“好人”，但没有正确释放的权欲和攻击欲最终都要找到一个宣泄的出口。导演的童年生活对心理影响应该挺大的。
施拉德再拍一部就可以和《第一归正会》一起凑成“当代美国迷茫与救赎”三部曲了。故事框架上确实有些出租车司机，但此时此刻却又无比需要这样的电影。“USA”哥们儿可能是我年度最佳喜剧角色了。但也真的很绝望，男主不管到哪里，那滑稽的“USA”伴随到哪里，男主不管做什么，最后赢的都是“USA”。
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
770｜不知为何，这种冷峻压抑的风格很吸引我。除去尴尬的情感线，这个故事是施拉德《出租车司机》《第一归正会》的延续，而算牌和白布等设定让整部电影更神秘，更迷人。别人不喜欢就算了，反正我很喜欢。
莫名其妙的故事，人物关系和进展也很莫名，除了一点虐囚的镜头，真是乏善可陈
Oscar Isaac 梳着大背头，不知为何令我想起了旧好莱坞时的演员... 画面和配乐不错，调子极慢极隐忍，然而末尾却感觉戛然而止。
7.5 lol Paul Schrader....
Copyright © 2015-2023 All Rights Reserved
