The film opens with a narrated disclaimer over footage of an opening coffin. The narrator explains that the film's climax is so terrifying that it may kill the viewer, and reassures the audience that if they die of fright while watching the film, they will receive a free burial service, and it closes on the casket which has a card inside reading "Reserved for You."[1]
Newlyweds Jenni (Peggy Webber) and Eric (John Hudson) move into Eric's palatial country home. Jenni is Eric's second wife; his first wife Marion died when she accidentally slipped and hit her head on the edge of a decorative pond on the estate. At the home they meet Eric's friends, the Reverend Snow (Russ Conway) and his wife (Toni Johnson), as well as Mickey (Alex Nicol), the developmentally disabled gardener. Eric privately mentions to the Snows that Jenni spent time in an asylum following the sudden death of both her parents, and Mrs. Snow reveals that Jenni is very wealthy.
Jenni is disturbed both by Mickey's belief that Marion's ghost wanders the estate and by Marion's self-portrait inside the house, which Jenni believes resembles her mother. When she begins to hear unexplained screaming noises and see skulls around her house, she believes that Marion is haunting her. Though Eric speculates to Jenni that Mickey, who was a childhood friend of Marion and thus dislikes Jenni, may be behind the trickery, Jenni worries that she is going insane. Eric then suggests to remove Marion's self-portrait from the home. Eric and Jenni take the painting outside and burn it. While they clean up the remains of the painting, a skull emerges from the ashes. While Jenni panics at the sight of the skull, Eric denies that the skull is there. Jenni faints and Eric withdraws the skull and hides it, revealing that he was responsible for the trickery all along in an effort to get hold of her wealth.
Believing she has finally lost her sanity, Jenni resolves to be committed. She tells Eric that the entire property will be meticulously searched for the skull as a last resort. Before Eric can retrieve it, Mickey secretly steals the skull and brings it to the Reverend, revealing Eric's plans. That night, Eric prepares to murder Jenni and stage it as a suicide. Jenni sees Marion's ghost in Mickey's greenhouse and flees back to the house. When she enters, Eric begins throttling her. The ghost then appears and chases Eric outside and about the property; it finally corners and attacks him, drowning him in the decorative pond.
After Jenni regains consciousness, the Snows arrive. Mrs. Snow comforts a hysterical Jenni and the Reverend discovers Eric's body in the pond. Some undisclosed time later, Jenni and the Snows depart from the house. Reverend Snow declares whether or not Marion's death was an accident will remain a mystery.
我想在迪斯尼一个别人找不到的地方藏着到曙光。
2022年1月，我和我的全家人活得好好的，人口两千万几乎是整个英国四分之一的成都，这两年累计确诊190死亡3个，不歌功颂德难道想变成英国那15万人？ 这哪是洗脑的问题，有些人脑子已经坏掉了 775
天色尚早 但很快就要暗下来了 趁着白日漫漫，我们一起出去散步吧。
剧情有一些割裂，或者是我的认知太浅显。前半部分新冠来袭真的好真实，让女主角从“小变态”的角色中脱离了，看到了小人物的力量与柔韧。但后面砸门自行带病人开展隔离是咋回事？ ……
我想在路边的脏摊儿撸串啤酒吐到天亮。
“为什么不让这么好的演员去演商业电影”？(电影里的台词）感觉听到了一场真实的灵魂拷问，完全是一部洪尚秀的私欲电影啊，拍独立电影就是浪费时间吗？拍黑白就是刻意吗？最后作为摄影的洪尚秀和金敏喜的一场“婚礼”，满屏的秀恩爱直接溢出屏幕啊。
两星半。朱迪科莫不错；演员没问题，疗养院的视角和切入点也不错；但叙事不过脑子，剪辑也是；
愿心中温柔的人能过得好
疫情背景下的片子里，这部片子显得格外真诚朴素，用简单的视角和技巧就把人与人在疫情下的艰难和信任展现出来，朱迪科默的脆弱无助感也是我们最真实的写照，但从剧作本身来看，对于男女主之间的情感铺垫以及女主家人这两部分处理得有些潦草，导致后半段男女主感情递进的突然。为创作组真诚的表达初心所动容，希望国内有朝一日也会有这样气质的疫情剧情片。
8.5➕
当我为该写点什么显得不一样的时候，已经落入生活的俗套。自然到过曝的，无需色彩点缀的，普通而日常的才是我们的生活。谁都是演员，小说家，诗人。
名叫援助，其实更像是这位护工对病人的扶持。有点公益广告的味道——疫情下的边缘群体，更需要社会人士身体力行地关怀，而不是口头问候。大量的大特写长镜头，像看《索尔之子》时一样焦虑。
借「小说家」之手完成了一次更为私人的情感文本，也是对自己影像风格的过程式解构，所有的一切都是灵感的迸发，偶然的奇遇，人际的巧合。不需要任何人为动机的推进，只需要等待自然交互下的情绪降临，而洪镜头下的任何元素与符号都充满了最真挚的告白，就在自己所创造的话语结构里从容却又流露出难以掩饰的无处安放，就好像虚构下的「黑白」是第一视角的窥探，随之短暂的「色彩」开始出现后便让爱释放得更加具有魔力。
所以别说“战胜疫情”，太妄自尊大和避重就轻。那么多撕心裂肺，那么多人永远不可能回去，那么多不计数不具名的逝去，都真实地发生过，我们已经输了。人类没有战胜困难，人类只是习惯了习惯。
冲着金敏喜和洪尚秀看的。 对金敏喜感兴趣，纯粹是因为她的话题，什么男神收割机，什么和大22岁导演的不伦之恋，我在看她的《小姐》的时候甚至都不知道她，看的时候还觉得这小姐长得不够漂亮。其实我发现拍文艺片，尤其是大众看不明白的文艺片，是很容易让一个没什么姿色的女演员突然变得很有姿色，你觉得没有那是你没品味。说回这部电影，用手机拍摄就可以了，还说是剧情片，都不知道有什么剧情，还有就是不喜欢那个女作家，还有，完全不明白为啥现在有些电影要拍黑白片。文艺真是一个特殊的存在，你不懂是因为你只是一个俗人。
看到结尾字幕出现真是感动。看完真想拉踩一下《中国医生》，完全是痴迷于粗糙的“宏观大格局叙事”而不加节制，人物工具化得无法无天，刻意煽情泛滥。而本片，手持跟拍镜头极具表现力，朱迪科默强大的表演令人动容，剧本无处不在针砭时弊，同时人物依旧鲜活、有血有肉。无论如何，医护工作者真的很伟大。
洪常秀真是什么都不在乎了，聊天类电影的巅峰，绝对耐得住寂寞，全篇结尾才给了金敏喜特写，黑白清净，解剖与自我解剖，蛮好。
看到最后那段真的惊了。前面的情绪靠一张美丽的脸倾泻而出，喜欢看日常对话的我并不觉得累。他好爱她，她好可爱，但爱又怎么说呢。
他这座银熊确实是实至名归，把对电影的认知有往前推了。
很喜欢探讨创作的部分，还有社交中的尴尬处境。Lincoln Center/Secret Screening
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