失踪2009

这部低成本的片子是我在豆瓣上淘来的，下载完后就扔在文件夹中冷藏着，今天好不容易打起兴致来看，发现是一部还不错的片子。我的朋友在我的片库里找片时，是直接把这部忽略过去的，确实，这不是一部适合看惯好莱坞大片的观众的片子，它更偏于那种小众，节奏有些缓慢，场景也不够壮观，但是它适合慢慢地看，从中体会着小人物的跌宕起伏，也别有一番滋味。
可是。。。对于结尾那个大反转，当满脸络腮胡子的大叔和一脸受样的小青年两人眼含热泪深情对望时，我，瞬间菊紧了。。。我完全感受不到其中的深情和纠结，我只能感觉到恶寒。部。。（大叔：丹尼，你爱我，我知道你爱我，我感觉得到，你抱我的时候，你亲我的时候。。。）各位，我已经无力吐槽，因为我的狗血已经全喷涌而出，奉献在了这个伟大的时刻。谁能告诉我前一刻还像仇人一样你给我一拳、我给你一枪的两人，怎么瞬间变成了“神交已久”的恋人？是我三观不够奇葩还是世界变化太快？也许片中早有揭示，当小受跪着哭喊“我害怕极了，你保护了我，我永远也不会忘记”时，我纯洁地认为只是普通的兄弟情，况且下个瞬间就是小受将大叔扑倒在地。
这部片子教育了我们：1.同性恋心软是没有好下场的 2.双性恋两边都顾是没有好下场的 3.直女要远离同性恋和双性恋的组合

本片绝对是低成本之作，我认为，只给三个演员、一个导演、一个编剧的工资基本上就是成本啦，哦，加上一辆破旧的面包车、租一间破旧房子、几条绳子、一张床、一些海绵包装材料、几把仿真手枪的钱。女主角爱丽丝的衣服也没换两件，有时还是裸体，服装成本基本可以忽略不计，但这些，都不妨碍本片是一部优秀的电影——高潮迭起，意外连连。

片子看多了，很多时候看片，都能按照影片的思路走，一般看了个开头，就能不断地猜，猜出结局一般八九不离十，但本片，不论故事发展的过程，还是故事的结局，我一样没猜对，郁闷之余收获了意外的惊喜。

最先嘛，俩男人干净利索买床啊、绳子啊一类的绑架工具，然后又干净利索地绑架了爱丽丝，这些都没什么，绑架一般都这么干，只是绑架的细节非常清晰，包括绳子怎样勒紧爱丽丝雪白的肉体，怎样把爱丽丝用手铐铐在床上，怎样用绳子拉扯爱丽丝的双脚固定于床上，使之大字形躺于床上，更为惊奇的是，爱丽丝的嘴上居然有SM片中常见的嘴塞——就是一个像台球一般的圆塑料球，两边扎有绑带，用时将球塞在嘴里，绑带固定于头上。我想，用这东西的目的是让爱丽丝不能叫喊求救，但我当时就怀疑，这东西根本防止不了叫喊，不信？各位如果家里有鸡蛋，可以一试，将一枚鸡蛋置于口中，再扯开喉咙喊试试，绝对能喊出声，记住，玩的时候不要用牙哦，除非你喜欢吃生鸡蛋。这嘴塞还不如臭袜子有效防止绑架者叫喊，一来臭袜子能够充满口腔，二来臭袜子臭，能熏死人，闭嘴都来不及呢。用剪刀剪开爱丽丝衣服那一段很香艳，暴力美学在这里完美体现，而且爱丽丝的身材是我喜欢的那类型，丰满而不肥腻，各位如喜欢可以暂停细看，哈。我口水这么多，是想让大家知道，看本片的开头，我以为这是一部为满足日本人口味的SM片，但是，我错了。面对玉体横陈的爱丽丝，俩大男人的神色明显不同，主角之一的丹尼有点色迷迷的不知想干嘛，而另一老一点的主角小维看起来就淡定多了。当时我就猜坏事的肯定是丹尼，他要不爱上爱丽丝，要不非礼爱丽丝，要不强奸爱丽丝——大字形绑在床上，很好操作嘛。但我又错了，什么都没发生，丹尼绑架的爱丽丝是他现任的女朋友，而且看他们的关系，早就是超友谊的啦，他绑架女友的目的是勒索她那有钱的抠门爸200万美刀，然后和女友远走高飞。我以为我自己理顺了电影情节，就是俩恋人合作骗钱，然后踢开小维，独吞巨款。这次错的更离谱。当看见丹尼和小维俩大男人激情拥吻之时，我崩溃了，肚子一痛，菊花一紧，电视也没关，上厕所大号去了……

好了，剧透了一些电影情节，不太厚道，但还有大量的惊喜和惊吓还没说，留给有兴趣看本片的去发掘，重申一下，本片值得一看。

本片反映的主题是：在金钱面前，什么感情都是假的！

在绑架Alice的破屋子里，Danny去开车时，Vic从Alice口中知道了Danny骗了他，问Alice为什么还继续演戏，然后不等回答，自言自语地说，“因为他答应把钱分给你一份。”
我的问题是，Alice本来就是富家女，并且是独生女，Vic又不认识她，怎知道她爸爸不给她钱？怎知道Alice也想分钱？

The first and third features from English filmmaker J Blakeson, who most certainly has a partiality for dark and queer characters. TDoAC is a three-person hostage thriller shot on a shoestring, in the mode of William Wyler’s THE COLLECTOR (1965), only more ascetic and messier.

The titular Alice Creed (Arterton) is a rich daddy’s girl, who is kidnapped by two ex-convicts Danny (Compston) and Vic (Marsan), things would go peachy for everyone had it not been the fact that Danny is Alice’s ex-boyfriend, and once this cardinal information is divulged, the whole shebang veers to murkier waters as viewers cannot ascertain who among the three would be the victor, each one seems to an unknown quantity.

The craft on show is adroit, the opening wordless sequences are neat and bracing shot and edited, they smooth the way for audience to gear up for what it is coming - a typical hostage situation set in a single, drab location, where a voluptuous Arterton has to undergo some roughhousing, being gagged, tied, undressed (the usual suspects of S&M fantasy), redressed, and later choked and slapped, but most humiliating of it all, urinating to a bedpan in front of two masked kidnappers.

Well, Blakeson does not actually go to extremes on the path to a torture porn, instead he manipulates various plot twists in a canny way that each time, when a character achieves some sort leverage, the table will be turned in a trice. Also, the fluidity of sexuality plays a major part in the double-cross/counter-double-cross gamesmanship, can sweet nothings soften the gun barrel pointing at your face? Twice out of three you might not luck out.

The long and short of it, TDoAC is an absorbing debut feature mines brilliantly into its meager resource and the outstanding performances from its three players. Can a cowing Eddie Marsan transform himself into a meek lover? You must see for yourself; whereas Martin Compston portrays Danny’s bisexual oscillation with adequacy and Arterton goes for broke in her birthday suit, when all is said and done, countering to what its title alludes to, “disappearance” could be a blessing in disguise.

However, in I CARE A LOT, a Rosamund Pike’s feminist vehicle, Blakeson’s irony and sarcasm goes pitch black. Pike plays a ruthless con woman Marla Grayson, who operates a company legally acquiring the guardianship of elderly people through a duplicitous scheme (often assisted by unscrupulous doctors and inane judges), so their assets are completely at her disposal (though on the face of it, the juridical procedures feel rather facile).

Her gravy train hits a snag when she milks a wrong cow, Jennifer Peterson (a nonplussed then fuming Wiest is always a corker), the apparently perfect candidate, affluent, childless, all alone in the world, actually has a formable friend at court, the Russian mafia boss Roman Lunyov (Dinklage). So when the gloves are off, it is Marla and her girlfriend Fran (González) versus the murderous gangsters, do they have a chance? Or, shall we care?

The answer is yes and no, the ineptitude of Roman’s riffraff is astonishingly shocking (what can you say? they botch not one but two cases of snuffing a defenseless, unconscious woman!), and Marla is depicted as an amoral overachiever, a stony-faced ballbuster, a totally unregenerate bitch (not a scintilla of remorse can be traced on her face), ergo, that really puts audience off from empathizing with her, save for the pungent disgust towards the American Dream she is spoiling for.

If its paint-by-number predator/prey dichotomy sounds trite, its David and Goliath tale seems incredulous and oversimplified, what saves I CARE A LOT from heading to the abyss is Pike. Tricked out in fetching attire and unflappable towards any threats shot at her from the other sex, her Marla is “Amazing Amy” with a vengeance and irrefragably batting for the other team (her affection for Fran is genuine, a viewer might second-guess Marla’s unspecified backstory, how her reprehensible carapace could be the outgrowth of the malefic influence inflicted by the world at large, and Fran’s female warmth becomes her only safe haven). Even in the absence of cordial redeeming feats, it is still riveting to watch Pike’s Marla in action, her fearlessness is both scary and inspiring, you hate her guts but also crave for her guts (or maybe just a part of) ambivalence is here to stay.

At last, Blakeson plumps for poetic justice to put paid to Marla’s unstoppable ascension (can it be construed as a veiled pro-gun testimony? In the United States, the only way for a poor, miserable guy to seek justice from a powerful woman is to use anti-personnel weaponry, how reassuring!), but it feels bathetic, unlike Martin Scorsese’s THE WOLF OF WALL STREET (2013), Blakeson doesn’t know how to dream up a proper coda for a repulsive character, he settles for the safest exit strategy, since everything in I CARE A LOT is Manichaean.

Elsewhere, a debonair Messina lights up the screen as an unethical, soigné lawyer who tries and fails to railroad Marla into dancing to his tunes; Dinklage is always an atypical screen magnet, here his surly temperament is a good match with Pike’s posh sharpness. From TDoAC to I CARE A LOT, the production design goes from drab to hip, Marc Canham’s hypnotic electronic buzz swells and intensifies, but Blakeson’s script and imagination seems to be impeded by a bigger scale and more handsome budget, is it the downside of the money monster?

referential entries: William Wyler’s THE COLLECTOR (1965, 8.0/10); Martin Scorsese’s THE WOLF OF WALL STREET (2013, 8.0/10).

Title: The Disappearance of Alice Creed

Year: 2009

Country: UK

Language: English

Genre: Crime, Thriller

Director/Screenwriter: J Blakeson

Music: Marc Canham

Cinematography: Philipp Blaubach

Editing: Mark Eckersley

Cast:

Gemma Arterton

Martin Compston

Eddie Marsan

Rating: 6.9/10

Title: I Care a Lot

Year: 2020

Country: USA, UK

Language: English

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller

Director/Screenwriter: J Blakeson

Music: Marc Canham

Cinematography: Doug Emmett

Editing: Mark Eckersley

Cast:

Rosamund Pike

Peter Dinklage

Eiza González

Dianne Wiest

Chris Messina

Isiah Whitlock Jr.

Damian Young

Nicholas Logan

Alicia Witt

Macon Blair

Celeste Oliva

Rating: 6.4/10

一場預謀的綁架勒索，200萬。
電影還未結束，我一直在想這200萬會被誰得手。是danny帶著creed私奔還是和小v遠走天涯……

在獄中danny和小v相識并相愛，兩人預謀綁架creed并勒索他的父親200萬然後私奔到地球的另一端，從新開始新的生活，做快樂的基佬。

danny在獄外的女友creed成了他們的作案對象，毫不知情的creed最終還是識破了danny。可danny對creed說這一切只是因為愛，有了他爸爸的錢倆個人就可以私奔真正的在一起。

詭異的三角戀。
當一切敗露之後，每個人都打著自己的如意算盤。

你到底在愛著誰？還是或許你誰也不愛，愛的只是金錢？！
小v想殺danny未果最後卻被danny三強斃命，creed也企圖殺了danny最終danny因為槍傷失血過多死了……

three words eight letters i love you
愛裡沒有謊言沒有背叛。
在紛繁複雜的世界面前，愛是藉口。
愛會敗給世俗。
當小v舉槍對著danny時又或是最後danny拿著槍對著小v時才會被說出口的愛，只是爲了求生的藉口。
就像creed質問danny一樣，如果你是真的愛我還要綁架我甚至在別人面前羞辱我……我就值那些錢麼……
對啊，你愛的是錢還是人。
詭異的三角戀最終三個人都敗給了金錢，有了金錢，誰也再不缺一個男人也不少一個女人，卻永遠丟了心中的那份最真的愛。

最後的最後，creed把danny的屍體拖下車後自己坐在車裡關了音樂失聲痛哭，看看身旁的200萬，再次打開音樂，一個人開車揚長而去……

誰會想到最後的贏家會是她呢……

从影片的中间开始，高潮刚刚起步，就有太多可能性会发生，而你却不知道导演要将这条线往哪边引，他们俩俩组合却各藏私心，说到底都是为了钱，此种低成本却如此内涵的电影是值得一看的。

三个演员一间房，就能完美演绎一台戏。编导把绑架片“看守人质”这个小环节放大玩出如此多的花样，无论是演员的个性表现，还是故事的人性探讨，乃至于世事无常、情感纠结予人的种种感触，都不能不让人佩服。咱国内不管是胸怀壮志盯着奥斯卡小金人的大导，还是苦无资金的DV级新人，都应好好学习观摩。

台词讲究，没有废话。

人物性格鲜明，但都很现实。

爱丽丝前男友丹尼和狱中新结实男友维奇，在爱丽丝毫不知情下绑架了她，因为她的有钱爸爸。

有意思的是，反转并不在丹尼计划之内，爱丽丝挣脱后，被枪口所指的丹尼不得不拉拢前女友，说服她扮演人质。

爱丽丝也不是傻白甜，在一次体液交流后，顺利拿到电话报警。却被维奇发现（此处有些生硬），无奈之下也撒了一个谎，丹尼只是利用维奇。

维奇先发制人，丹尼虽中一枪却侥幸逃脱，维奇最终死在丹尼枪下。

临死之即，维奇将手铐钥匙给了爱丽丝，逃出的爱丽丝找到了路边轿车内做着美梦死去的丹尼（流血过多）。

爱丽丝则在痛哭一场后，拿着钱失踪了。

所以，在绑架这种高危、高紧张状态下，缺乏信任实在可怕。

人性的趋利，不考虑别人损失，很容易造成冲突。