American psychologist John Holden arrives in London to participate in a symposium aiming to expose witchcraft and devil-worship as a fraud, with attention centered on a cult run by a Julian Karswell. Debarking his plane, Holden learns that the symposium leader, Henry Harrington, has suddenly died and he is now in charge. What only the audience knows is that Harrington was clearly killed by a demon, apparently summoned by Karswell to avenge his persecution. Despite both threatening and cajoling behavior by Karswell, Holden determines to proceed, though the only cult member willing to talk about his experiences is in a prison psychiatric ward, catatonic after allegedly killing yet another cult member. However, Harrington's niece, Joanna, believes, based on her uncle's notes, that Karswell may indeed have some satanic powers derived from an ancient tome in an obscure language which he has been able to translate, and attempts to warn the skeptic Holden. Karswell's mother also attempts to warn Holden off. However, the thing which begins to most get to Holden are the occasional, but mounting, sensory and mental disturbances he begins experiencing after an encounter with Karswell, and the discovery that, during this encounter, Karswell secretly slipped a slip of parchment with a curse in runic symbols on it into Holden's belongings, a parchment identical to one Harrington recorded having had passed to him in a similar manner shortly before his death... [N.B. Holden at no point stays at the Karswell estate].
如果结局大家都回归普通，没有超能力也能活得很快乐，就更有寓意、更现实了。不过这毕竟是迪士尼给小孩子们的一个梦：当你一心向善勇敢面对不公，好事终将降临。童话毕竟还是要美好的。
最近很多不值polyvalent这个形容词的叙事 但是本片真的值得 虽然在架构上重述了当代女性主义常识 但是人物血肉丰满 又eternal 又真实到有限制感
看过就知道，这是惊悚片吗，这是女人的血和泪。
比想象的好很多，尤其开篇很多画面蛮美的。后面就比较草率，转折太快，人物也没怎么深挖
精神病院里的老套故事，最后还来个极限一换一，理解不能…
罗兰不愧是雨果迷，开场就是雨果葬礼，背影镜头很吸引我。女二入场较晚，似乎更多地表现了“与女一互文补充”的工具性意味。 唯一的盟友还是位男性同性恋。
內心壓抑.表達了很多面.人性的善.善的歸屬是什麼.
情节、场景偏分散、琐碎，过于强调情绪的细微变化。表达并非深刻，但意图较明显。
用现实主义来拍超自然，十分反套路，简直是近代精神病研究弯路和女性迫害实录。。。看后容易引起不适
关于女巫的真真假假已不重要，重要的是对女人的圈养规训和猎杀，简单的故事，黑暗中的扶持 启蒙和希望。
作为法国片，难得不拖泥带水。女主虽然不是美上天，但是带观众入戏能力一流。本想做家务电影，但是认真的看完了。二女主感情铺垫不够导致后期的情节不信服。总体好看～
看到神就是奇迹，看到鬼魂就是神经病。就是想让我们闭嘴！
进了疯人院，所谓的治疗就是迫害，疯女人们的舞会，是逃离的唯一机会。
“女性应激也不可以发怒。发怒就是歇斯底里。歇斯底里就是一个莫比乌斯环，是异化、污蔑和戕害女性的无限恶性循环。”
算是作为导演的梅拉尼交出的一份不错的作业，男权社会女性只是附庸，不论是在尤金妮家里做主的父亲，还是医院里身为“担保人”的教授，开篇镜头美到出奇，双女主之间的感情实在是交代的过于隐晦，但两位是真的养眼，看完之后叹一句确实是法国片的调性了
外婆的魔法来自那个瞬间急切想保护丈夫，家人间互相理解能强化魔法（拥抱妹妹），当外婆开始拿外孙女去联姻时，她已经没在保护家人了，魔法自然会消失。能懂女主接受自己（“i see me”），但我不理解的是，她怎么能在一瞬间和过去的全部和解？听完外公的故事就能原谅外婆过去一直想把她变成家里的透明人？
人性的压抑是共通的，故事挺好，两位女主都是散发着光彩，成熟性感
基本的都能看懂，我是觉得那个男的应该是被逼疯的，若不是真的喜欢不至于很久都没下手，若不是真的喜欢那女的变残疾了还想和她做，或许是那里面男的才是真的变态，舞会上那个女的啥样还去舔别人手，属实恶心。看不懂这点，背景搞的太压抑了，有些细节确实不太明白。
其实仔细想想，Laâge和M的感觉有些相似。还是值得一看的
儿时经常听这样的话，村口的“疯”女人；楼下自言自语的老婆婆，；教室角落独自面壁的女同学，都是怪人。异于常人带来了疯的刻板印象，性别的压迫带来了对女性的不公待遇。
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