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].
前半段看得有点闷，但整体看完看下来就是两个字：凌厉。
热火朝天汹涌澎湃的1968反越战嬉皮年！！
仿佛在看好老婆。立个flag今年补完West Wing！
不懂历史，但是作为电影，文学剧本和拍摄手法都相当好啊。因为主要场景是庭审，所以有几处闪回，时空切换的处理方式每次都有新意，比较喜欢的是Fred Hampton被害时的相机快门声串起的两个时空，冷酷的机器声音和活着的人的惊恐，就连起了两个时空。还喜欢Bobby Seales质问Tom Hayden时说的话，你们都有同一个父亲。我太爱Allan Sorkin写的剧了
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这部片子里讨论了很多问题，比如性别歧视、种族歧视、毒品泛滥、系统性的滥用暴力、美霸权主义操控的海外战争等等。回溯过去两年的新闻，很容易发现这些问题始终蛰伏在社会的角角落落而从未得到妥善解决。
台詞密度高不代表就很厲害。庭審戲拍得實在太無聊了！鏡頭無聊、剪輯無聊、連演員的表演都被帶的很無聊⋯⋯一星留給這段發人深省並正在重演的歷史。看完這片也就懂了為什麼囧瑟夫會在臉書發那篇文了。P.S 真不敢相信這是拍出《 The Newsroom》的導演 ( •̅_•̅ )
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机长的演唱太精彩了，印象最深刻的一个角色，演技很棒，寓意也很好，非常有爱的一部音乐剧
精彩！“你是否蔑视你的政府？” “相比政府对我的蔑视，我的蔑视不值一提。”
210424@ sfm：这剧本太八面玲珑的吧，庭审戏也很爽。半年庭审前因后果俩小时完成不乏味。看的时候忍不住想这两年隔岸看到的新闻、那部不能说的提名纪录片和现在正在进行的审判。就算能理解历史总会翻页，但身处其中的人呢？Abbie Hoffman角色设定太高光了。
看的百老汇官摄版本，歌曲好听，剧情节奏紧凑，只是故事内容单纯不是很对胃口，始终无法打动我。
挺喜欢的题材，可惜可能受制于历史的事实，最后还是草草结尾（其实这剧本密度我完全不介意它被拍到3小时及以上）。希望奥斯卡大满贯吧，别再fuck audience with love and peace了。
“如果注定流血，就让血流满芝加哥。”（小雀斑太适合革命斗士这类角色了吧，《悲惨世界》的马瑞斯也很好哭QAQ）
他们revolution，他们蜕化，他们轮回。
就是喜欢这种调调的电影，老死头子法官太气人了，真想知道他的后续，想看他吃瘪
此类电影看多了都是一个套路，主旋律社会题材，匠气又刻意，有几处剪辑上的亮点（叙说和闪回结合），一看就是奔着奥斯卡去的，估计能接着今年社会运势的东风拿一些提名。看戏外发现更多有意思的地方，小雀斑演的人物是简方达的前夫，当年奥斯卡影帝之争，被小雀斑最后时刻逆转的基顿演了个配角，两人同场出镜
有些人在长期缺失某些东西后忘了他们也应该/可以拥有那些东西，有些人在看到别人拥有他们缺失的某些东西后羡慕别人并渴望他们也能享有那些东西。
所以今年大选的时候念因新冠去世的人的名字会怎样？
整体很精彩，是一部带有索金鲜明个人风格的电影。稍显不足的是有点过度娱乐化了，以及控辩双方并没有形成真正意义上的对决，完全是一边倒的表演。
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