英国社文课的一次作业
The main story is set in the year before World War II, drew out by the narration of an old man who is a relative of the heroin Anne and who at that time was a little boy.
Anne was an adopted child of an aristocrat family. She was a popular actress before the War started. Her father Alexander and brother Ralph were all working for the government. The family seems to live a tranquil and idyllic life. However, after the death of an old friend of the family, the peace life was gone forever. Anne accidentally found a record which contained the evidence that Alexander and Ralph were arranging an action to assassinate their political opponents in order to keep Britain out of the war. And she later found out that whoever knew about the existence of this record was killed or commit suicide. Trying to dig out the truth, she met with strong resistance. And eventually, as she was getting closer to the truth, the family grounded her in a country villa. Being secretly released by her mother, Anne chose to leave the family forever.
The movie presents three common attitudes the British people held towards war.
One is represented by the father who had gone through the World War I. They had seen the cruelty of war and chose to do their best to keep the peace, even at the cost of that the Britain might be Nazified although they did not approve Nazism. From today’s perspective, their approach was least inadvisable, but this judgment is based on one premise that we already knew the course of history. Although the policy of appeasement is doomed to fail, this attitude still enjoyed great popularity before the war broke out. Because it not only corresponded to the country’s inherently conservative bias but also met people’s requirements of avoiding mass casualties. No wonder why the father in the movie, together with the whole family, would resort to extreme measures to stop Anne. Objectively speaking, Prime Minister Chamberlain’s appeasement policy was not useless at all for it bought Mr. Chamberlain some time for updating the Air Force and the defense radar system, which set the foundation for the Churchill government.
The second attitude is represented by Anne and Hector in the movie, and Winston Churchill in reality. On the one hand, Anne was driven by her sense of justice that people should never commit atrocity even it is for the interests of the country. On the other hand, she did realize that blindly making compromise to Germany was in vain.
The last one is represented by the mother, an inconspicuous member of the family. Compared to her husband and children, she showed little enthusiasm in politics and stayed out of the whole action towards Anne. Every time she appeared on the scene, she was doing gardening. Let things drift if they do not affect one personally. This is also a feasible way to save oneself during the war time, but it is the most passive method among the three.
I think the director shows clearly in the story which attitude he favors. In the end, all the other family members died. Except Walter and his brother who was just a baby when things happened, Anne was the only one survived, which symbolizes the victory of bravery and justice.
开头悬疑起的十足,原以为是谍战大戏。后面这剧情实在让人失望啊!难道全程抖放这家人怎么对养女阴阳怪气。伦敦20世纪三十年代贵族是看不上演员的吗?(也是,不管什么年代,贵族就看得上贵族而已)。一张唱片被养女收了藏了,讲真这很简单吧。随便叫个仆人把这张唱片找来销毁就是了。还那么多戏!唱片里讲的是什么?神神叨叨断断续续的故弄玄虚!真是浪费了这么强的卡司!还有小雀斑演的弟弟,即看不起这个养女姐姐。又对她怀有不怀好意的邪念!哪怕你给我演个禁忌之恋然后得不到就毁灭她的故事也比搞什么囚禁合逻辑。还有那个妹妹,门缝里姐姐朝外看她靠在父亲身上的镜头,父亲夸她是个合格的女主人啦,我TM以为这对父女有什么关系。女演员实在太欠扁轻佻又邪恶啊!毕竟这家的母亲整天拨弄园艺,她是活死人吗?!借她一万个胆也没胆放走养女的。导演最邪恶了!最后的结局,不尴尬啊!
冲着卡司来看的,看之前不知道是什么题材,只知道有托比少爷和DT。一开场发现李爷爷,小雀斑,朱诺坦普尔,bill nighy这么多人把我激动坏了。
好惊悚。英国二战时期的阴谋论。
全程采用很多展现超现实主义的摄影,梦境和现实融合在一起,我都在怀疑这一切都是女主臆想出来的,至少有一部分是假的。
各种各样的巧合不太可能真正发生啊。大胆地猜测一下,女主也许是有精神上的疾病,被家人严加看护,又是战争时期,就在病房里臆想出了这一切。
例如,最后逃出房间看到家人向她温暖召唤,太超现实了吧,我认为是她没逃出来,身体极度虚弱时幻想的。五十年后重逢也可能是她那时对自己未来的幻想和期望。
当然,很大的可能是这一切都真实地发生过,但是真是这样简单的话就浪费了那么牛的摄影。私底下更希望解释成第一种。不知道有没有人有同感。本来想罗列一下“虚幻镜头”,可是通宵看完电影今天已经很晚了,拖到明天写又没感觉(其实我就是懒......)
结尾看得我wtf,不错的一部电影在最后给毁了,女主穿越时空的笑容,我get,so what?导演想通过它说明什么?度过难关的坚强?对家人的宽容?你们这俩兔崽子不把我当家人看但是我现在过得好好的原谅你们把你们当家人,恩。败笔。
赎罪. 70年过去,重逢时只是一句“你好”。
BBC出品,服化道和镜头画面一如既往的精致优秀。镜头以大女儿安的视角推进剧情,烘托气氛,后期气氛营造很不错。不过前半部电影画面剧情衔接有些生硬,显得过于碎片化,如果不是因为服化道显示着这部电影的用心还是很容易让人放弃的。此外海克托在餐桌上的一次长篇大论算是第一个高潮——小十的死亡语速……之后他死后安偷听唱片时他在唱片里的嚎叫算是第二个点。这种隐忍压抑中的小爆点更突出隐忍压抑。之后便是阿尔伯特那段诡异的录像。至此之后剧情走向流畅。
故事比较牵强。男演员们普遍比较帅,结果都是来打酱油的。
知道的越多越危险,步步惊心!演技很出彩!
2010.07.03感觉一般,情绪渲染似乎不够到位。印象最深的角色么,一是那位不得志的龙套,二是出场极为有限的母亲。
英剧最大的特点在于也许你不觉得特别精彩,但无形中被故事催眠,这个故事确实称得上惊悚。
色彩与服装无比美丽,细腻舒畅的镜头与画面,永恒不变的对英国country house的热爱,DTT惊鸿一瞥,虽然无论是bill nighy还是其他人都有没有发挥畅快的感觉,但是还是有绵长的诗意在其中。
封面深深的吸引了我。。。女主角很有布兰切特的感觉,那种二战前夕的种种争执从一个贵族家庭上演出来,但是总感觉有些过于不真实
为什么都在说无聊?难道就我窒息了将近1个半小时?风景服装很唯美,主题很深远。只要是捡来的就别相信所谓的亲人会对你多好,情感是虚伪的,到最后还是会像宠物一样无情地把你扔掉。
我不知关于此人,我的所爱总是那服装,画面,还是那总是带一点诡异气味的叙事…… 但我的确曾很爱很爱
萌的演员N多,但故事很牵强。ps,帅哥们在片子里的地位近乎打酱油。
历史没有绝对的对与错,于是所有纠缠其中的感情都变得模糊不可分辨。其实这是惊悚片(正色)
Toby只在开头和结尾出现了一下而已,当然美丽如故。居然这片子也有Juno Temple……都跟Toby合作2部电影了,不会擦出什么奇怪的火花吧?!那个神出鬼没的小男孩Walter每次出现我都觉得我看的是鬼片……最后他们把女主放了是什么原因啊到底。。。英国人奇怪死了
这种rebecca式的阴谋论悬疑片,前面一百多分钟华丽丽的铺垫,不就是等一个精彩有力的结局嘛。结果等半天出来一烂尾,害我一口气岔在那里连觉都没睡好!
从故事到拍摄手法都非常粗糙,表意不清,毫无章法。只能看到人们都在为坚持自己认为对的事情,做出坚持。
居然非常,非常惊悚,后面都快喘不过气来了,结果结尾画蛇添足毁一半。开战消息传来时导演说先继续拍戏等人送无线电来,平淡的处理但有种暗暗的冲击力;女主自始至终都和宠物等价,在许多构图中站在外围;RG妹子在这里的演绎简直超神了。
今天推荐这个电影,里面的toby很受阿
「It's not always a good place to go, the past.」「This little war makes everything uncertain.」
BBC出品必属精品!绝对属于《傲慢与偏见》同等级的精品。英国贵族风范十足,各种细节体现着家族历史沉淀的底蕴。到最后,那母亲的一句:go!以及女主的一句:we are all family,让人心中一颤。
飞机上裸看的。太多细节没听懂,于是注意力分散在歪嘴女的婊情和肢体以及漂亮的服装上——就算是傻不拉叽的假发简爱帽大浓妆,也让人觉得像emma一样好萌。Garai演技大涨,奴家特别稀饭丫被软禁以后发狂的大爆粗口,每一句都爆破有力,爽死了。gilbert死后诡异的影片和兽医诊所挺寒的。