The Card Counter 2021
IMDb Ratings: 6.8/10
Genres: Action, Drama, Thriller
Language: English
Release Year: 2021
Director: Paul Schrader
Stars Cast: Oscar Isaac, Tiffany Haddish, Tye Sheridan
Director: Paul Schrader
Stars Cast: Oscar Isaac, Tiffany Haddish, Tye Sheridan
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The Card Counter Review
"Card Counter" is a film made by one of America's greatest American social media filmmakers. Paul Schrader has done a job of looking at the dark side of American culture. This film is one of his best.
As a quiet character research, the Schrader’s sharp camera lens focuses on William Tell (a.k.a., William Tillich) who is wonderfully interpreted by actor Oscar Isaac. William spent eight and a half years in Leavenworth military prison. It was later revealed that he was one of those arrested as an example of the war in Abu Ghraib.
Through William's relationship with his young friend, Kirk Baufort, it is clear that the lower-level military personnel were carrying out orders from commanders and decision-makers who could not be contacted. Cirk identifies the poison not as "bad apples," but as "a bad bin." A short documentary film clip provides a glimpse of Donald Rumsfeld, as well as a strategic description of the "Gitmoize" strategy for dark sites around the world.
Cirk dreams of revenge on John Gordo (aka, John Rogers), who blames him for the death of his father, who worked with William in Abu Ghraib. While at Leavenworth, William studied the "Meditation" of Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius, as well as his arithmetic. The speech on William's back ("I hope my life in Providence") is a Stoic creed.
Some of the best scenes in the film are poker matches at various casinos. William wants to win enough money for Kirk to pay off student loans and rescue his mother, who is also in debt. He is assisted by one of the main characters in the film, La Linda, who acts as William's manager.
As William is able to "learn" other poker players, his ability to understand his little protégé is a sad failure. Kirk takes the money and, instead of visiting his mother, pays for a trip to John Gordo's house, then reverses his plan for revenge and is assassinated. The self-injurious William then forgets about the unpleasant stoicism he has embraced and seeks revenge on Gordo himself.
The film has a strong subtitle text in which William Tell's story is a metaphor for Abu Ghraib's horror. That experience serves as a coda for the failure of the American Century, a ghost that still haunts a nation that destroys its financial power and democratic ideals in order to gain a sense of revenge.
As a quiet character research, the Schrader’s sharp camera lens focuses on William Tell (a.k.a., William Tillich) who is wonderfully interpreted by actor Oscar Isaac. William spent eight and a half years in Leavenworth military prison. It was later revealed that he was one of those arrested as an example of the war in Abu Ghraib.
Through William's relationship with his young friend, Kirk Baufort, it is clear that the lower-level military personnel were carrying out orders from commanders and decision-makers who could not be contacted. Cirk identifies the poison not as "bad apples," but as "a bad bin." A short documentary film clip provides a glimpse of Donald Rumsfeld, as well as a strategic description of the "Gitmoize" strategy for dark sites around the world.
Cirk dreams of revenge on John Gordo (aka, John Rogers), who blames him for the death of his father, who worked with William in Abu Ghraib. While at Leavenworth, William studied the "Meditation" of Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius, as well as his arithmetic. The speech on William's back ("I hope my life in Providence") is a Stoic creed.
Some of the best scenes in the film are poker matches at various casinos. William wants to win enough money for Kirk to pay off student loans and rescue his mother, who is also in debt. He is assisted by one of the main characters in the film, La Linda, who acts as William's manager.
As William is able to "learn" other poker players, his ability to understand his little protégé is a sad failure. Kirk takes the money and, instead of visiting his mother, pays for a trip to John Gordo's house, then reverses his plan for revenge and is assassinated. The self-injurious William then forgets about the unpleasant stoicism he has embraced and seeks revenge on Gordo himself.
The film has a strong subtitle text in which William Tell's story is a metaphor for Abu Ghraib's horror. That experience serves as a coda for the failure of the American Century, a ghost that still haunts a nation that destroys its financial power and democratic ideals in order to gain a sense of revenge.
