这是Richard Lester最好的一个片。
An absurdist classic
This is a wonderful surreal comedy based on the play by Spike Milligan and John Antrobus. You know that it is going to be an odd film right at the beginning, when the opening credits list the cast in order of their height. The film begins with the BBC (Frank Thornton) telling us through the facade of an old television that this is the third, or is it the fourth?, anniversary of the shortest war in history, lasting 2 hours and 28 minutes. England is now a barren landscape, littered with derelict cars and buildings, hills of old boots, broken crockery, and other debris. Forty million people perished and there are only 20 known survivors. The Queen did not survive, and of the 20 known survivors the next in line for the throne is a Mrs Ethel Schroake of 393a High Street, Leytonstone. Among the other survivors are Ralph Richardson (O Lucky Man!) as Lord Fortnum of Alamein, who isn't looking forward to his impending mutation into a bed sitting room. Michael Hordern is Bules Martin, who wears a 18-carat Hovis bread ring. Spike Milligan is a postman who wanders around and delivers some memorable dialogue, for example: "And in come the three bears - the daddy bear said, 'Who's been sleeping in my porridge?' - and the mummy bear said, 'that's no porridge, that was my wife' ". Arthur Lowe is slowly turning into a parrot (which is then eaten by Spike Milligan), while his wife, the owner of her own death certificate, turns into a wardrobe. His daughter is pregnant with a strange creature, which she has held inside her for seventeen months. Peter Cook and Dudley Moore are a pair of policemen who perpetually tell the others to "keep moving!". Moore growls a lot and turns into a dog at the end. Marty Feldman is a wellington-boot-wearing nurse. It's a hilarious, absurdist treat, and one of my treasured filmic pleasures.
如果你每听到强奸案都会震惊，那你每15分钟就会震惊一次，一小时4次，一天96次。太绝了，时政社会议题大集合，结果反映出来还是尚有良知的人背锅，罪大恶极的人继续逍遥法外，扣一星。
尽管电影本身有许多瑕疵，人物塑造刻板失败，法庭上用演讲代替举证让人感到非常混乱…但是，“政治通过媒体操纵民意、公众不关心事实更注重情绪宣泄”这两个core立得很好。
总体观感不如杰伊比姆。反转还是很多，副督察从正义到邪恶再到良心发现，瘸腿律师从出场看着像个正派，说话像个反派，抽丝剥茧还原了副督察给的真相。新闻媒体和警察操纵了真相，程序正义的重要性。
作为退学博士，
最近看的几部印度电影，杰伊比姆、一个星期四和这部，都有反转，都在批判，揭露印度社会体制问题，虽然掀起反抗的都是个人，似乎仅凭借个别人的力量是无法撼动问题的根本的，而且他们的做法现实中可行性、成功率太低，印度的问题是错综复杂的绝不仅仅是影片指出的体制问题。但总归有人在反思，哪怕这个国家糟透了。
一碗丰盛的麻辣烫，有女性议题，政治议题，媒体议题……警察冲动杀人确实一开始就不可信，果然反转了，律师那么神能弄明白事件全过程也不可信，后面也圆回来了，除了结尾有点理想主义喊口号，前面都很好，政治🟰黑暗，在哪个国家都是一样的，至少印度端出来这么一碗诚意满满的麻辣烫（不输韩国）而且，画面还蛮干净，真的是第一次见到……
除了种姓和出身，研究生导师的权力太大，与学生不平衡的关系也是蛮重要的点
依法治国
文化要自信，先要放开约束，绑手绑脚怎么自信？绑人的在那喊自信有什么用？
印度版唐三事件，也不要嘲笑人家印度髒亂，人家至少敢拍…總比雷聲大雨點小的「封報」行動好看…
法庭戏精彩，最后塞进的反转信息过多，显得稍乱，前面可以减少时长，电影就会精炼些。
好题材，好内容。拍的不好，声效使用太不节制了，处处都在煽情，而且场景的作用和意图，混乱重复，抓不住重点，几处反转也没有层层递进，不是一部电影的感觉。
前面稍微有点拖沓，精简点会更好。后面一个半小时直接起飞，全程无尿点，看的头皮发麻。
慢动作煽乐毫无节制，素材不断做加法，
162分钟，结尾居然是这个……虎头蛇尾吧。
确实很敢拍，抽丝剥茧，融合了各种深层议题与思考，有很多振聋发聩的金句，美中不足就是宝莱坞配乐依然太满，片子也拖的有点长。
6.一个国家的尊严就是它给予女性的尊严
种姓制度，法律程序正义，选举政治，高校剥削，印度片不止载歌载舞，还有各种揭伤疤
结尾差点意思，总体来说很不错，看完了能引发人的思考。
电影揭露了一通他们体质的弊端，可最后的结果是消灭这万恶的体质吗？不是的！
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