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].
男人们永远在要求一个完美受害者，到头来一切交给上帝判决，中世纪的强奸真相无人在乎，现在呢？罗生门式三视角拍法不新鲜但，让女主的悲剧事实重演了三次，这才是冗长的意义。
从《末路狂花》到《最后的决斗》，30年来Ridley Scott镜头下带给女性的理解和尊重无可比拟。这部电影票房惨败，是这个时代的耻辱。
TV版6—10，大boss和鬼医生都出现啦
但就从审美和美学的角度而言，叹为观止、惊为天人。
大潮流下的沉浮 / 四川话自带的属性让expo不会那么难受 又总有种乐天的感觉 / 极权之下 笑就是抵抗 / 结束在cr那边觉得不够 爱的是扫过去一众人像 扫回来已然空空如也 / set design有趣 / 初看戏剧式的表演有点too much对于电影 但看下去是戏如人生
世界观徐徐展开。
影片以章节式的结构，从三位主角的角度出发，讲述了这一著名的真实事件。剧本稳扎稳打，恢弘的场景和配乐一瞬间恍惚到《权力的游戏》。
【B】一种被精致包装过后的极致庸俗，老雷最终用一部“反叛精神”十足的电影去推翻自己曾经创造的史诗大片，稳健的背后却是老气横秋。分章节，多视角，罗生门，却在最后一幕里告诉观众这是不容置疑的“the truth”，好莱坞下的收敛与软弱，却也是更被观众所接受的稳健。然后在精巧结构和控诉文本下，雷德利的庸俗视听基本宣告影片的破功，视听手段与影像质感都在退化，直到最后半小时的决斗才终于找回“好莱坞一流名导”的底气，却为时已晚。当然，这份控诉和对题材颠覆的决心仍然值得尊敬。
里面这几句印象深刻。
这是什么神仙组合？？？
画框感很强
本来还奇怪最终大boss这么早就出现了，看了后面才知道原来如此
比起戳破强奸犯的谎言，这个片子更精彩的部分是戳破丈夫的谎言。嘲讽拉满，特别悲凉的地方又特别好笑。女主演得太好了！
在这个时代还能看到这样一部作品是幸运的，近些年华语第一！
“韦斯安德森式霸王别姬”。作为四川人完全无法理性评价的一部电影，充满鬼气，看完手脚发凉。
大失所望。不敢相信雷公居然用自己曾创造无限辉煌的历史题材和女性主题拍出来这样一部电影。
去年做成都天府公园大草坪项目时想邀请这部影片做“坝坝电影”放映，但当时邱炯炯说声音最后调整未完成。今天在Anthology Film Archives看了美国theatrical premiere，三小时乐山/四川的历史叙事，密集绵长，荡气回肠。全片均以搭景拍成，是浓缩在一个studio里时间跨度极长、剧力变化多端、视觉冲击强烈、声音设计考究的方言戏剧化影像，与中国当代电影中流行的纪实风格迥然有异，是华语电影在2021年罕见佳作。Anthology Film Archives明天还有一场放映。据影片在美国的发行人Karin Chien说，6月11日皇后区的Museum of Moving Image还将放映此片，并有邱炯炯的作品回顾放映。
3.女性电影是为了强调女性独立自主的权利和与男性相等的勇气、胆识。不是单纯地将所有恶扣在男性头上。长达四五年的真相追逐，面对封建体制的压迫，冒着丧命和家族蒙羞的危险，去保护妻子的尊严，Jean绝不是雄性主义的恶霸
#南特三大洲#很奇特的观影经历，天马行空，却又落入实处，才气逼人的作品。陌生化，戏剧化，荒谬化的表达，但稍稍有点长，一度分神，也充斥着过多符号，信息量负载过大。
EP.15-21 《那田蜘蛛山篇》
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