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].
有种90年代剧情片的感觉，两个男主选的都不错，特别是伊萨克，造型非常有张力。罪与罚，是与非，在人间的审判之上的是“上帝”的审判。
有点没看懂，快演完了，都还不知道主旨是啥，是真比赛复仇，还是互相利用，女主冲出来的意义又是什么，对复仇有作用还是比赛有作用，搞得太慢也太隐晦了，直到最后，也没弄出个有说服力的结局。男主忧郁沉闷的气质很赞，其他，，，
理解把Oscar拍得帅得没边了，但拿拍太空戏的劲儿拍小赌场牌桌和廉价霓虹灯花园是不是太过了，“他不仅又帅又神秘还很有深度，真的很深哦（配乐起）”，最后一幕做作到想掀桌。
故弄玄虚的氛围和温吞的剧情推进有点脱节，爱情戏则像是硬加进去的佐料没有任何chemistry ，而”墙上挂着一把枪”的铺垫下的结果竟然是”我就是不让你看到我是怎么用的”，真是让人觉得非常没劲了。如果是一本小说，或许还挺值得一看。
这部电影的主导就有问题，是战争创伤吗？可是他们没有真正的反思，奇克的父亲不是因为虐囚自责而自杀，却是因成为了别人的替罪羊心理不平才自杀……所以此后的一切都毫无意义，只是在歪打歪撞。
各方面都干净克制，也就用这么点干净对抗肮脏了。监狱的单一生活，牌桌上的简单数字， 写日记的习惯……终究避无可避，如同主角的名字谐音“Will Tell”一样，真相在鱼眼镜头下扭曲的梦魇里窒息，年轻人的复仇被杀和主角的复仇都在画外，没有给观众一丝释放怜悯或者快感的机会，只留下五彩灯带里牵起的双手和隔着玻璃触碰的指尖。
很难再看到的经过精密计算的电影，而且在剧作“运算”的过程中也保证了内容的可看度。注释性文本与机制的解读类似说明书般将电影进行操控，《Taxi Driver》式的情绪暗涌又把机械的运作齿轮打破，于是整部电影前后段的对峙就进入了一个僵局：慵懒、任性的自我与抗争、博弈的命运间的冰点，如同牌局一般满是疑点、猜忌，但最后都要走向胜负一方的毁灭和结束。
在这个年代看到这种风格的片子，让人感动，节奏缓慢，却又娓娓道来，会讲故事的人，什么时候都可以讲好一个逼近真实的故事。
oh daddy!太辣了，辣到让我无视神叨叨的台词和摸不着脑的情节
ᐈ一个好的牌手能看穿你的想法，无论你是戴上耳塞，穿连帽衫，带上棒球帽，眼镜还是面具，都不能阻挡他看穿你的视线
算牌只是份技能，但电影更多讲的是沉浸过去的痛苦回忆，复仇和救赎。
stay away from FOCUS company, which is famous of producing profound, meaningful, well acted but ... extremely BORING films!
21/10/4：施拉德年轻的时候还能写俩本子，做导演他可能缺乏写基本功和想象力。
看着还不错的卡司阵容，装得特深沉地演了个B级片。
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
就，看到最后二三十分钟前其实都还不错，结尾拍的太空了（？就让整部电影显得有点弱智起来……
I'm sorry what was this???
“算牌人”的身份似乎并不重要，只是用来认识女主和快速筹钱的背景板。但这恰是全片最迷人的地方之一，我们等待男主一掷千金一夜暴富一雪前耻，我们等待牌局作为翻盘的机会，甚至我们就是在等待输或赢的结果。最后，轻飘飘的，他走了。
It's not bad, ”but…it's repetitive. ”
3.0。运用非布列松的表演方式和剪辑节奏，去表现布列松的电影内核，这是矛盾而无效的。除去鱼眼镜头带来的压迫感，整体极为散漫。
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