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."
末了，给保守党政府一记耳光：忽视对护理院老人的保护，致使因新冠而死的人中有四成属于护理院的老人。
we need someone to unveil the overlooked.
老头半夜发热那段长镜头，让人身临其境的感受到瘟疫发生的残酷和无助，能让所有同类电影汗颜，但是导演好像更想表达孤独患者间的相互怜惜——从海报也看得出来，典型文青式的表达我有点不太接受
covid change the world，so sad.face to the death,the world became more cold.this movie beat the heart directly.so deeply.
这只是电影，所以结局可以拍得这样荒唐，在这样的境遇下，就是想“逃”而已——从人的本心出发表述人最真实的想法；并没有记录轰轰烈烈的伟大，只是想告诉幸存者们逝者的痛苦，不要忘记悲伤和狼狈的政府。
那种说了99句我很关心你，你很重要，最后一句对不起我们做不到那种伪善的人（部门），令人无奈和气愤。什么时候我们能做到人人平等。
91/100。我最初是冲着利物浦和啾迪来的，啾迪果然没有让我失望，片中也有很多与利物浦（足球俱乐部）相关的台词和服饰。（啾迪饰演的角色是埃弗顿球迷，难道她是埃弗顿球迷吗！）不过抛开这些不谈，这部电影也绝对是一部值得五星的片子。这是我看过的第一部有关新冠疫情的电影，我也大受震撼。影片真实地反映了新冠疫情下的英国，真实得让观众很容易代入进去，尤其是中间的长镜头让人窒息。灯光的运用、镜头的聚焦也独具匠心。另外感情线的安排我也觉得没有问题，男主很明显是一见钟情，通过女主的家境和经历也能看出她多么珍惜一个好人。结尾的安排巧妙而不落俗套。很开心我能有幸看到这么一部电影。
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这是我看的第一部新冠相关题材的影剧，片中许多的片段，都让人回想起两年前新冠爆发时，亲历过的恐惧和无奈的心境。西方百姓对疾病防控的认知和我们并没有大不同，只是他们更关注「个人」而不是「国家」罢了。
个人认为结尾将个人苦难转移到政府层面的失职实在是个败笔。
4星的故事加上1星的社会意义
i love you acctully. i love you too. 我以为你爱他们，但如果你这么做了 你就和其他人没区别了。
这才是真正的小正大 几乎都能被称作是后covid时代电影的开山之作了 从个体出发 对权势和政府体制进行强而有力的控诉 不一味歌颂 让人回归人的本质 该犯错时犯错 该牺牲时牺牲 最近在看野田高悟的剧本结构论 里面有一句话说得特别对 电影不是用来宣传的 电影是生活的镜子 依然还是得回归到平民的生活上 没有人的生活是美满的 真实地展现生活中的苦痛和不如意 也呈现所谓的“不幸”结局 才能与世界电影齐肩 judie comer太绝了 她的呼吸完全carry住了整部片子 长镜头下的演绎一气呵成 绝
1.此“抗疫片”不仅揭露了外国枉顾人权抗议不力的种种乱象，更暴露出其宣传条线不讲政治不顾大局的涣散局面；2.从歌颂到批判、从批判到改善，各自都还有长路要走；3.从反社会混不吝的杀手到内心有爱无助又坚定的护工，Jodie在演技上一次结实而漂亮的跨越。
3星半 从护工的视角讲述新冠期间的可怕 不止是病毒的可怕 最后还痛斥了一顿zf
-一直很担心女主和tony会有所谓的男女情感 还好没有
1.此“抗疫片”不仅揭露了外国枉顾人权抗议不力的种种乱象，更暴露出其宣传条线不讲政治不顾大局的涣散局面；2.从歌颂到批判、从批判到改善，各自都还有长路要走；3.从反社会混不吝的杀手到内心有爱无助又坚定的护工，Jodie在演技上一次结实而漂亮的跨越。
二十多分钟的一镜到底演一个慌乱的救护夜晚 jodie拿捏得死死的 jodie适合演这种有点疯有点极端的角色 虽然最后结尾某句台词实在是太夹带政治私货了 影片立意蛮好的 有些话咱也不敢说咱也不敢问
剧情本身而言拍得很现实，让人很难受。
Couldn’t believe wear mask and keep social distance had become my daily routine.
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