New York private detective Duncan "Mac" MacLain is blind but has keenly developed all his other senses. He pursues his work assisted by his faithful guide dog Friday, his butler, Alistair, and his assistant, Marty. Retired actress Norma Lawry, an old friend, comes to Mac seeking advice. Her headstrong 17-year-old step-daughter Barbara, herself a promising actress, is enamored with her leading man in a small theater production, the much older Lothario Paul Gerente. Paul, who had once been Norma's lover, has convinced Barbara that Norma actually wants Paul for herself and has only married her father Stephen for his money. At Mac's urging, Norma tried to reason with Paul, but he insists that he loves Barbara and laughs her off. Barbara is equally disdainful of her and agrees to meet Paul for dinner that night at his apartment.
Norma's husband Stephen Lawry is a scientist leaving that night on a trip to test a secret invention on which he has been working for the government and the war effort. Worried about Barbara, she uses a pretext not to accompany Stephen and goes to the apartment. When Barbara arrives, she finds Paul's dead body and thinks that Norma has killed him, even though Norma insists that he was dead when she arrived. Barbara threatens to call the police unless she leaves Stephen. Fearing that a scandal will hurt him, Norma agrees. Norma then turns to Mac, who goes to Paul's apartment with Friday and Marty, only to find the body and the rug under it missing. A man arrives to replace the rug and Mac hides in a closet, overhearing a telephone call to Norma's number from "Gabriel" to "Vera." Mac accidentally gives himself away, but with Friday's help overpowers Gabriel, who refuses to talk. Mac has Marty hide him to keep him under wraps.
Norma returns to her country home unexpectedly, which discourages an espionage ring that includes her butler, Hansen, from breaking into Stephen's safe and stealing his plans. They have killed Gerente, who was also an agent, and hidden the body. Mac arrives with Friday at Norma's house and pretends to be her curmudgeonly "Uncle Mac" who has come for a visit. His blindness lulls any suspicions Hansen might have about him. Shortly thereafter, Barbara comes home from an "emergency rehearsal", called to get her out of the house by her director, Cheli Scott, who inveigles an invitation to spend the night at the Lawry home. Unknown to Barbara and Norma, Cheli is the ringleader of the spies. Cheli ordered Paul killed because his affection for Barbara was beginning to limit his effectiveness, and she immediately suspects Mac is not what he seems.
Gabriel's wife Vera, the Lawrys' maid, is also a part of the plot. When Gabriel does not return home, Vera becomes hysterical with worry. Mac secretly asks Vera to meet him in the greenhouse, using her worry about Gabriel as a lure. She is observed by the others, however, and is killed by Hansen before she can reach Mac. The spies cut the house's telephone wires so that Mac and Norma cannot call the police, and Cheli has Mac locked up under guard. Using his blindness as a distraction, Mac overpowers his guard and releases Friday out a window with instructions to "go home and get Marty." Stephen arrives home and Cheli threatens his family if he does not give her the final step in creating his invention, which was not in the safe. Barbara finally realizes how much Norma actually cares for her. Mac tries to stall for time, but is locked in the cellar. When Hansen goes to kill him, Mac has broken the light bulb and his advantage of total darkness helps him overcome the spy. Marty and Friday return with the police. When Friday is spotted by a lookout, Mac overpowers him and is saved from being shot by another lookout by Friday. After the spies are captured, Stephen and Norma are off to Washington, D.C., with Barbara remaining behind to care for her new "Uncle Mac."
Long live Ridley Scott！
罗生门其实不好搞，一是这是个被观众看烂了的小花活，这么多年了还用这一套吓唬人没惊喜，何况本片的三段故事其实并没有实质性差异，二是这种形式在稍增趣味的基础上没有添色，对于这个真实事件的影响力和震撼性反而打了折扣，也一定程度上影响了故事的真实性，尤其在女主视角的男女主对立其实不太站得住脚。但是我喜欢的两个原因，一是始终挺喜欢这个浅尝辄止的对男权社会的批判，就算是有限度自以为是的，还是一定程度上取悦了我（但其实我对女性主义没有明显偏向），二是最后的决斗段落很生猛带劲，算是提起了我的兴致。
雷德利斯科特的三重结构电影，第一层是中世纪决斗，看了开头的百年战争风貌可能会劝退一大批人。第二层是罗生门式三段叙事，两男一女同一故事不同视角三段讲述，三个主演演技炸裂，台词跟表情细微的差别映射三个主人公内心。第三层也就是真正的内核是女权主义，也就是玛格丽特的故事后面的truth意味。虽然是中世纪背景，但是故事里的男权控制（强奸犯最终也认为自己无罪）、夫权压迫（马特达蒙始终只关注自己的尊严）和社会的高压（法庭舆论、婆媳讨论还有塑料姐妹花）到今天也不过时，疯王查理六世说：我不背锅。目前看过最好的女权片，也完爆今年的奥斯卡提名。
太长了 中世纪女权片 可看性跟罗生门差远了 男性什么时候能站起来~ 大本的造型很另类 这片票房失利很正常 不要抬头不应该啊
中世紀的鋼鉄直男和有女權意識的妻子，在受投機取巧、更會經營的對手、拉偏架的領主欺凌后，向瘋批國王、虚伪的宗教投訴無門，以性命相摶，討回公道的故事。
如此大手笔，就拍了这么一件“小事”，值得赞扬！值得支持！电影3星，题材加1星！本片最大减分项就是color grading……好比tm美图秀秀滤镜一般…现在的润色师们能不能好好多看看几遍斯坦利和塔可夫斯基！尼玛连个白天的光都调不好！
据说在美国票房惨败，我觉得主要还是太长了，可以稍微精炼一点。拍的还是很好的，历史上真实案件的老瓶装上了女性主义的新酒。在决斗过程中我就在想，强奸犯和老公都死了的话，女主就自由了，可以自己当家做主了。果然这就是最后的结局，棒！
可能绝大多数人的关注点，都是玛格丽特这位女性的遭遇。但我觉得那个时代的男性同样可怜。一方出身低微，想方设法往上爬，另一方家道衰落，想方设法维护名誉。在那个阶级分明且牢固的时代，除了继承，唯有通过战争晋升贵族。让想方设法得来、格外珍惜的“骑士”称号，不过是贵族的最底层，除了一个sir的称号，没人看得起他。电影以战争开始，以战争结束，让死在战场上。像那个时代无数男人一样，名誉与权力，不过是贵族向下的统治工具，数十年自矜，不过幻梦一场，同样可怜。
这样一部强调“讲述”的电影里，只要有一个视角不可信，就意味着所有视角的不可信，更何况整部电影里三个视角几乎一丁点形式上的区别都没有。
刚开始看出结构的时候会想为什么要在中世纪背景下拍一个这么普通的故事。看完觉得，为什么直到今天我们才看到这个如此普通的故事。
顶级的剧本打磨，细节铺垫不同视角的不同表现，呆萌和大本的编剧能力还是依然在线
十余年后，雷德利•斯科特再度拍摄了一部中世纪题材的电影，是对自己史诗电影生涯的一次再度回归，也是历史题材电影衰落的时代少数的高光，完全不同于《天国王朝》中浪漫的耶路撒冷和富有骑士精神的战争，电影前两部分两个男主的视角与最终女主的视角对比尽显一个男权主义者和一个自恋狂的丑恶，谎言之间“骑士”的荣耀是建立在压迫和黑暗社会的麻木之上的，最后的决斗可以说是血脉喷张，在民众们看来，是秉承正义的骑士维护了妻子的尊严，可实际却是毫不在意真相的男人赢得了所谓的“荣誉”，女人在幸运中逃过了死亡和羞辱。
7.4/10，老瓶也开始装近几年的酒，朱迪的资源多了起来。
她的好运气是万里挑一 勇气也是｜真实历史改编
本质上是一曲女性悲歌。女主从作为商品被嫁出、到被展示、被羞辱、被伤害、被质疑、被庆贺……一切都围绕她展开，但两个男人你死我活又与她无关。女性只不过是展示男性可怜可悲尊严的所谓附属品，而中世纪女性的遭遇依然能延续到现如今本就是讽刺可笑又悲哀的。影片节奏多少有些问题，第一部分因为在罗生门结构里负责给出基础信息，太仓促不妥，像本片这样长到容易让人走神也不妥；第三部分因为负责真相也给了太长的篇幅，如果整体能缩减到两小时会更好。我很骄傲本马达改编出了这个剧本，同时也正如他们所说，女编剧Nicole是至关重要的存在，没有她，片中那些引起女性共情的真实感触便不会存在。
What a boring and anachronistic adaptation of the tragedy of a progressive woman in 1300s France. 核心冲突就一个，“女人觉得一个男人有吸引力并不意味着要与其上床”在那个年代是不被理解的，把这个道理在2021年单薄地复述一遍有何意义？所谓“罗生门”的叙事手法，对付的应该是一个极其复杂的事情才有趣，单一个“是否被强奸”的疑点是撑不住的，由此造成叙事极其低效，第一章节基本就把整个事情讲完了。同时也造成人物单维（Damon正义，Driver风流，Comer憋屈）。在末尾的法庭戏，其实有向“女性的悲剧”这一价值靠拢，那么以女主为核心好好讲述就行了，前面一堆男人戏码并不重要。
棋盘上的傀儡们有尝试过挣扎，王，将，骑士，公主，平民。拍的挺好的，拍法的不同营造了巨大的观测偏差，关于人类，大抵如此。
老雷居然拍了大量的文戏，还是一个性侵的题材，当然也无需惊讶，毕竟他在早年还拍过末路狂花啊。段落结构上，是罗生门式的，有港片叹息桥的感觉，不同角色陈述同一件事情，内容发生微妙变化，前两段男人之间的戏也显示了不同的内容，有点像职场戏，却使关注点出现了些许失焦，核心表达点还是要以女性的视角作为基准去看。另一点，吊诡的是，最终事件的解决，是通过一场决斗，以男性+暴力+强权 式的决定方式，胜者全胜，得到认同，获得颂扬。这样来看，中世纪及至700余年后的当今，世界的运作，还是强者掌握话语权，似乎从来没有存在过正义、公理，或者公理也只是强者认定的公理。演员都很强，气场到位，年度十佳！
哪怕不用罗生门就战争场面的一瞥都好看得要命，last duel一幕的紧张感劈头盖脸。本爹的4P床戏据说是自己加上去的我真的要笑死。当然最搞笑的难道不是司机插足本达蒙吗。雷爷不比你我都懂。这个戏每个人的表演都很耐品。朱迪科默最后的那个look好像奥菲利亚再世美美美。
印象中正经描绘中世纪生活的电影不多
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