A quick glimpse at the cast for this film would make any horror fan giddy with glee. The actual movie doesn't live up to those high expectations, but it's far from being all bad. Desi Arnaz Jr. (!) plays an author who makes a crazy $20,000 bet with his publisher that he could write a great novel in only 24 hours. To do so, the publisher gives him the keys to an old abandoned house where he won't be disturbed. Not true. Once he gets there he is interrupted by a multitude of guests including a family which consists of John Carradine, Sheila Keith, Peter Cushing and Vincent Price. They are gathered there in a twisted family reunion to release their brother from the room he's been imprisoned in for forty years. Even Christopher Lee drops by as Corrigan, the man who has just purchased the house. Soon, they realize that the caged brother is loose and out for revenge.
What a great plotline and what a dream cast! This movie should have been a hell of a lot better. It's hard to pinpoint the exact problems with the film, but I would venture to say that the lack of lighting was a major fault. Sure the house has no electricity but I think they took the title of the movie a little too literally. Scenes after scenes are barely visible and the actors' faces are undecipherable. Only the moments in the main dinning hall are well lit. Also, the great actors are given very little to do. Cushing gets a few chuckles as the scared brother but Price, Lee and especially Carradine are somewhat wasted here. Well, at least Price gets the best line of the film: `Please don't interrupt me while I am soliloquizing.' And on the plus side, the story has enough twists and turns throughout to keep one`s interest and the ending, while a bit of a cop-out, manages to surprise.
电影的价值与意义 没有追求的生活有什么意思
不行，各种尖叫得头疼。走向很明确的电影，真实的事件却把人物拍得那么纸片那么假。
但权势者需要之时还要讨价还价地拿走它。
南印电影里程碑。尽管有些造神煽情歌舞的桥段，也不能掩盖这个纪实电影的优秀。拍出来这些印度顽痼沉屙，会改变吗？总有一些在慢慢推动的吧。在家，with阿梓
血淋淋地展示了底层人民的生存状况。没有土地，住不起砖房，拿着微薄的收入小心翼翼地生活，却仍然不知道何时天降横祸，随时会被警察污蔑犯罪。警察明知犯罪者是谁，可在受贿后闭口不言，随便抓人顶罪，不分青红皂白妄图屈打成招。昏迷过去直接向眼睛撒辣椒粉，为了撤销指控数次威胁家属，大街上把孩子抢走。甚至把人打死后还要污蔑他逃狱，暗地里却把尸体扔在荒野外。触目惊心的画面竟然是根据真实改编，让人窒息。而好的是这不是近年来的案件，并且还能被改编成电影上映，敢于承认且揭露真相，是伟大的举动。
毫无疑问，印度至今存在着非常严重的性别歧视和种族歧视，甚至可以在这里用一个“最”字。但印度社会允许质疑的声音发出来，也允许挑战这些不公的个人英雄主义的存在，还允许人们揭开旧伤疤看一看它究竟长好了没有……这就是他们的希望所在！
用了巨大的篇幅来做背景铺垫，然后抽丝剥茧，层层推进，稳扎稳打。质量是上乘的，但头确实也是疼的，印度也可以做好的剧情片，但配乐可以不放就还是不要了。还有哭戏，头疼。。
法院作出的不仅是判决，还是希望。看的版本翻译太差，整体节奏稍慢。
电影的价值与意义 没有追求的生活有什么意思
三星半。不能给太多，怕太骄傲。比较商业片，非常努力让观众能看懂。胜在题材承担着足够的社会性，选角也极具魅力。但是还是逃不过印度片比较夸张的表达方式，还是不太符合个人审美。
看完人傻了，就是你看惯了2.0甚至3.0的东西再回看1.0，就朴素的让人觉得很心酸，但即使是这个程度的东西我们也拍不出来
打着韩国《辩护人》的称号，自然增加了不少期待。得益于叙事的方式和节奏，三个小时的片长并不觉得冗长乏味。社会命题固然沉重，但整个庭审胜利和伟光正的主角，未免有些轻巧了。（3.5星）
事件是震撼的 但拍摄手法人物塑造太过于刻板流水账
这个拍出来的形势，就像一个印度超人拯救平民一样，这种跟传统的美国意识形态相一致了。
电影里用几个月赢来的胜利，现实里用了十年。
大部分人就是滥用自己那点微不足道的权力罢了，出了事还得别人给他擦屁股………很多故事就是这么来的
这导演可能真的是第一次拍电影，如果不是故事实在太精彩可能听到第二首歌的时候我就放弃了。
唯一的败笔就是男主这个人设有些缺乏情绪的流露过于理性化。整体看着很压抑愤怒，然而人家毕竟敢拍能拍随便播……
意义在电影之外，电影层面真是鸡汤鸡血轮流地灌啊。。
印度电影老生常谈了，也不是第一次直面国情制度等等，未来还是期待更多年轻化视听语言的印度电影吧。
Copyright © 2015-2023 All Rights Reserved
