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I liked the routine. I liked the regimen. Same activities,
same time, every day. The same toothbrush,
the same clothes, same toilet. Same stale sweat, stale smoke, stale bodies,
stale cooking, stale farts. Same conversations. The faces change but not much. No choice. I found that I liked
reading books. I'd never read a book before...
not all the way through. I found a life for myself that
had been beyond my imagination. It was in prison
I learned to count cards
same time, every day. The same toothbrush,
the same clothes, same toilet. Same stale sweat, stale smoke, stale bodies,
stale cooking, stale farts. Same conversations. The faces change but not much. No choice. I found that I liked
reading books. I'd never read a book before...
not all the way through. I found a life for myself that
had been beyond my imagination. It was in prison
I learned to count cards
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I liked the routine.
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I liked the regimen.
00:00:05.503 --> 00:00:08.908
Same activities,
same time, every day.
00:00:08.941 --> 00:00:12.071
The same toothbrush,
the same clothes, same toilet.
00:00:12.745 --> 00:00:16.447
Same stale sweat, stale smoke,
00:00:16.481 --> 00:00:19.818
stale bodies,
stale cooking, stale farts.
00:00:19.852 --> 00:00:21.082
Same conversations.
00:00:21.854 --> 00:00:23.889
The faces change but not much.
00:00:23.923 --> 00:00:25.523
No choice.
00:00:25.556 --> 00:00:27.492
I found that I liked
reading books.
00:00:27.525 --> 00:00:30.796
I'd never read a book before...
not all the way through.
00:00:32.831 --> 00:00:36.701
I found a life for myself that
had been beyond my imagination.
00:00:39.537 --> 00:00:41.974
It was in prison
I learned to count cards.
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Movie Summary
Redemption is the long game in Paul Schrader's THE CARD COUNTER. Told with Schrader's trademark cinematic intensity, the revenge thriller tells the story of an ex-military interrogator turned gambler haunted by the ghosts of his p...