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.
“若不能按照所学的来生活，起码得按照自己的性格来活。”黑白色彩的东方美学，王权与儒家思想交互，知识分子的梦想是包容的，但是现实又往往是狭窄的，最后只能是师徒二人哀叹余年。★★★★
知识分子的纯粹性和精神还原，卞耀汉演得很不错。喜欢丁若铨和张昌大在黑山岛上写兹山鱼谱的那一段时光，充满了人性本质的好奇心，生命的勃发，自由的惬意畅快，若不能按照自己的所学生活，那就按照自己的性格生活! 这是知识分子对自己精神世界最好的维护，对真理的至高敬意。
知识分子下乡，乡下人有了知识却要进城当官赚钱。才发现有了知识后，就过不惯中饱私囊了。知识分子一旦脱离了劳动人民，知识分子的身份和剥削阶级本身就是矛盾的。这鱼谱的历史地位相当于法布尔的昆虫记。这个编剧应该是不知道中文互联网上海螺姑娘的段子，突然出戏。
年度十佳～
不要为抽象的理念而活，孔孟或上帝之道都不如一顿海鲜来得真实。生命从流放时的赤裸在博物学的探索下重获一种形式-生命，由好奇心而来的救赎。
我们的罪就是生孩子多而已
朝鲜时代的《海岸村恰恰恰》。扣一星是因为我更喜欢彩色电影。
一开始以为是传教片，差点儿劝退，还好坚持到了黑山岛（开头的背景交代真的太长了，其实几句话就可以说清楚），马上被这里的纯朴温暖捕获。不敢说完全理解了这部片子，但一个西学东渐过程中的牺牲者、一个见惯权力斗争和名利场的流放官员、一个能够以俯视地球高度来看世界的人，为什么将自己原本消失的好奇之心倾注到了一本鱼谱和一本别人的历险记里，还算感悟良多。
愧疚！抱憾！考公大军逐年增加，山中老虎纷纷遭打，运方来信家中一切安和，生活想象不到的富庶。我却无福消受独自苦闷，受世人嗤笑@自制拷贝带简体中字。
道不行，孔子乘桴浮于海，多识鸟兽虫鱼之名，不作春秋作鱼谱，开篇第一句便是：北冥有鱼，其名为鲲，化而为鸟，其名为…
朝鲜半岛这片土地及在它上面繁育的民族千百年积累下来的自我矛盾、认同的冲撞、无解与挣扎在这部电影里尽数体现。
他们那时注定要承受巨大的孤独，
国家的民主现代性进程这样一个宏大的主题，落到具体的细微个体身上来展开，非常具有感染力
各有所长，互为师长。壮阔的景象，潮水的声音，鲜活的生命。落脚到，我可以怎么活。好电影。
韩国是有这样的人物，然后可以强。日本明治维新时亦有这样的大人。吾国是有曾、李，谭、梁，孙文乃至于毛泽东。想到张香帅建汉阳兵工厂，而“汉阳造”为武昌首义打响了第一枪，正是影片里在海水中可重现墨迹的乌贼墨水，是海胆里飞出的青鸟，是“星星之火，可以燎原”。
从黑山岛的无人识字的自在宁静，俯视朝廷中的尔虞我诈的伦理野蛮。
或许导演也是某种意义上的丁若铨，感谢他拍出这么一部纯粹历史传记电影
百想 名至实归啊，儒教与基督教的冲突，士大夫的出世入世，去写经史子集还是编写鱼谱，没有一部电影可以如此详细的探讨这么多话题。
7/10 薛景求是在给对面那小伙子上演技课么
若不能按照所学生活，便得按照自己的性格生活。
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