Set in an underground dungeon inhabited by bundled, ragged human beings, after the nuclear holocaust. The story follows the wanderings of a hero through the situations of survival. People wait for the Ark to arrive and rescue them while their habitat falls apart.
Delving deep into the dusty and long abandonded vaults of b-cinema in search of lost gems always leaves me with a bittersweet taste. On one hand the discovery of unexpected gems where no one would think them possible is a rewarding experience. On the other hand though it makes one wonder how many of these remarkable low-budget oddities, personal love affairs of directors never quite famous and now all but forgotten, have almost forever slipped from memory?
n any case what we have here is a little post-apocalyptic gem from Poland that is really better than it has any right to. The dystopian near future of O-BI, O-BA finds a group of survivors of the nuclear war that ravaged the Earth inhabiting an underworld concrete bunker and biding their time as they wait for the mysterious Ark, an air ship of some kind that will come and save them. The Ark proves to be an elaborate hoax, carefully designed to give hope to the malnourished and desperate denizens of the bunker, while in the meantime the dome that separates their miserable existence from the nuclear winter outside is slowly caving in.
What first striked me about the movie is the design of the bunker and the depiction of the survivors. The survivors are gaunt, filthy and terrible-looking penitents, dressed in rags and aimlessly wandering the neon-lit halls of the bunker like automatons. The bunker is a rundown, seedy place, with bright neon lights peering from all sides like the eyes of malignant beasts.
On one hand it is a slightly 80's depiction of the dystopian future but the movie never stoops down to MAD MAX cheese. Instead it combines biting political satire with the bleak outlook of a world with no future, black comedy with barbs on apathy, religion and power. The survivors, for example, are fed some kind of flour dropping from a tube that hovers in the air - later on we discover the food supervisor uses books and the Bible itself as filler for this meagre meal. There are many such short symbolic touches, perhaps not life-changing or faith-restoring, yet playful, clever and inspired.
One thing is for sure; O-BI, O-BA is not your run-of-the-mill sci-fi schlock. It overcomes its modest budget with creativity and has genuine artistic aspirations both from a writing and directing perspective. My opinion is that it should have been filmed in black and white instead of colour though. The director uses atmospheric light and shadow to great effect and it would have registered even better in stark black and white. The blue-green neon on the other hand outstays its welcome after a while. Just a minor gripe in an otherwise solid b-movie with its heart set in all the right places.
Imagine a less bleak THE ROAD (Cormac McCarthy) being injected with the satire and humour of DR.STRANGELOVE and you're getting there. See it if you can find it.
核算拍没多大关系，虐人者人恒虐之，中间我是睡过去了。
替罪羊之无聊误打误撞学会算牌的帅气背头大叔。
替罪羊之无聊误打误撞学会算牌的帅气背头大叔。
摄影有布列松那味，但是一看到男主屁股那么大就又……不是那味。长镜头监狱那段，真的挺帅。
三星半，Oscar Issac这张冷峻的脸就是全片节奏和风格的写照。算牌只是虚晃一枪，重心是PTSD主题和相辅相成的鱼眼镜头。BRMC的音乐还是很有辨识度的。
5/10给我这种观影体验的今年只有两部，一部是《算牌人》，一部是《热带往事》。自带一种迷人的氛围，但这种氛围究其根本却让人觉得冗长无比。影片有一股日式黑暗的氛围（导演曾拍摄过《三岛由纪夫传》），由一个糜烂的创口开始过往，一切如图鱼眼镜头般变形成不可逆转。扑克牌牵扯一种连锁反应，和故事形成轴转体系，但故事如此朴素真不应该。
2.5；看的时候就觉得是在pandemic期间用无人的赌场拍的，一查Wikipedia果然，用了六天就拍完了。Paul Schrader还是安心写剧本吧，好的影评人未必是好导演。
背景故事線挺好的 夾雜了愛情線後 讓人一頭霧水
确实不是我喜欢的类型，还挺斯科塞斯的。最后高潮没推起来，男主以为自己被救赎了那里跟小孩一样表演出问题了
只拍了一个月就杀青了， 这个水平可以理解。
有著濃厚存在主義色彩的電影，以裝飾華麗的賭場帶出角色內心黑暗過去的設計，主人公那種在經歷痛苦後揮之不去的創傷後壓力癥候群，都環繞在整部電影里，讓他們飽受身心的折磨。雖然算牌人能夠依照牌桌上出現的卡片做出分數加減，借此判斷這場賽局對於賭客的有利程度，但這場名為人生的賭局卻沒有這麽簡單就能計算預測。
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 。。。。。。。
想看施拉德拍《出租车司机》……性冷淡的表演搭配性冷淡的配乐营造出一种虚无的迷幻气息，而先验性的影像恰让观众看到了布列松新世纪通过数字媒介所延续的一种可能。Oscar Isaac可以说是年度最迷人的男性银幕形象，在存在主义的救赎中竟创造了反传统的皈依，而罪恶永远无法抹除，在审讯的囚牢中我们仍旧看到收敛的刺激感以及来自地狱深渊凝望人性的恶魔
看完唱起那首歌：万万没想到，万万没想到啊~
没有那么差，但是本来以为是什么酷酷的赌博电影结果看到一半才发现是要救赎温情，前面半个小时真挺不知所云的，而且算牌扑克和审讯ptsd两条线好割裂。
女主不够漂亮诱人、让那个小年轻跟自己也有些突兀，除此之外，不错的片子，节奏略显缓慢。洋人就是喜欢这种大背景（美国黑狱虐囚）下的小故事。
在男主给小白15万美元，让他回家看妈妈时，我如醍醐灌顶，这部把男主往救世主拍的自恋爆棚的作品，必然是自编自导，这种剂量的自恋，我上次还是在《文科恋曲》里大受折磨。 奥斯卡·伊萨克实际上扮演的就是保罗·施拉德想象中的自己。
极度克制的影片。可能就是因为克制到了极点，反而显得有点拘束。亮点在对监狱鱼眼镜头的展示，配上美式摇滚，真的让人在不寒而栗的同时又充满着新鲜刺激。爱情的片段更多的种“润滑剂”，给这部充满了克制、压抑的影片一点温度，不过可能也正因为此，影片的力度才显得不够，看完有种意犹未尽之感。
整个就太刻意太硬了。有些段落感觉就像学生作品那种生硬感。随便翻翻看到海报辣爹点进去的。就喜欢辣爹肉体嘿嘿 不是皮包肌肉那种紧实的感觉 而是皮和肌肉之间还有一层脂肪的肉感 圆润 穿着衣服又有型 就很恰到好处。
虽然将题材从宗教转变为赌博，但保罗施拉德通过沉稳、缓慢的叙事节奏隐隐约约让本片有着影史最沉闷赌片的潜质，故事本质上还是在延续《第一归正会》的通过自我救赎走出过往，只是回忆中鱼眼广角镜头下的虐囚与当下赌桌上逢赌必赢的“USA”口号，多少是在讽刺美国当下体制内的病态犹如这一场场赌局，看似充满希望，实则深陷泥潭
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