The film opens with a narrated disclaimer over footage of an opening coffin. The narrator explains that the film's climax is so terrifying that it may kill the viewer, and reassures the audience that if they die of fright while watching the film, they will receive a free burial service, and it closes on the casket which has a card inside reading "Reserved for You."[1]
Newlyweds Jenni (Peggy Webber) and Eric (John Hudson) move into Eric's palatial country home. Jenni is Eric's second wife; his first wife Marion died when she accidentally slipped and hit her head on the edge of a decorative pond on the estate. At the home they meet Eric's friends, the Reverend Snow (Russ Conway) and his wife (Toni Johnson), as well as Mickey (Alex Nicol), the developmentally disabled gardener. Eric privately mentions to the Snows that Jenni spent time in an asylum following the sudden death of both her parents, and Mrs. Snow reveals that Jenni is very wealthy.
Jenni is disturbed both by Mickey's belief that Marion's ghost wanders the estate and by Marion's self-portrait inside the house, which Jenni believes resembles her mother. When she begins to hear unexplained screaming noises and see skulls around her house, she believes that Marion is haunting her. Though Eric speculates to Jenni that Mickey, who was a childhood friend of Marion and thus dislikes Jenni, may be behind the trickery, Jenni worries that she is going insane. Eric then suggests to remove Marion's self-portrait from the home. Eric and Jenni take the painting outside and burn it. While they clean up the remains of the painting, a skull emerges from the ashes. While Jenni panics at the sight of the skull, Eric denies that the skull is there. Jenni faints and Eric withdraws the skull and hides it, revealing that he was responsible for the trickery all along in an effort to get hold of her wealth.
Believing she has finally lost her sanity, Jenni resolves to be committed. She tells Eric that the entire property will be meticulously searched for the skull as a last resort. Before Eric can retrieve it, Mickey secretly steals the skull and brings it to the Reverend, revealing Eric's plans. That night, Eric prepares to murder Jenni and stage it as a suicide. Jenni sees Marion's ghost in Mickey's greenhouse and flees back to the house. When she enters, Eric begins throttling her. The ghost then appears and chases Eric outside and about the property; it finally corners and attacks him, drowning him in the decorative pond.
After Jenni regains consciousness, the Snows arrive. Mrs. Snow comforts a hysterical Jenni and the Reverend discovers Eric's body in the pond. Some undisclosed time later, Jenni and the Snows depart from the house. Reverend Snow declares whether or not Marion's death was an accident will remain a mystery.
“我从来没有因为我的思想而接受过审判”
很喜欢这些纽芬兰人们 很喜欢女机长的故事 很希望有机会看现场
【官摄】暴风眼外，世界边缘，有人得到有人失去，但所有人都交换过温柔和善意
不懂历史，但是作为电影，文学剧本和拍摄手法都相当好啊。因为主要场景是庭审，所以有几处闪回，时空切换的处理方式每次都有新意，比较喜欢的是Fred Hampton被害时的相机快门声串起的两个时空，冷酷的机器声音和活着的人的惊恐，就连起了两个时空。还喜欢Bobby Seales质问Tom Hayden时说的话，你们都有同一个父亲。我太爱Allan Sorkin写的剧了
于漫漫黑夜中，绝望无尽处，看到光，那是人性中的“善”，总有希望，总有温暖。
“与政府对我的蔑视相比，我对政府的蔑视不足一提”需要二刷 4.5
从头到尾人物都是不稳定的，除了法官是彻头彻尾的让人讨厌；事件切碎成好几个叙述者花式叙述，也没让我感觉到有更深入的效果；可能缺乏对美国历史和政治体系的理解，除了歧视黑人和反对人权让我热血喷张青筋暴起以外，本片的结尾并不如辩护人般震撼人心
索金教科书级的表现，虽然开头信息量太满，调度技巧也略显单调，但是公审闪回带出民运过程的叙事手段是索金拿手好戏了。愤怒的民运如何走向暴力，公权力如何使用权力打压异议迫使对方使用暴力，也在2个小时里用一种通俗好懂的形式讲清楚了。在一个全球局势风起云涌的时代，这部电影来得太及时，用一个60年代的故事证明了历史是周期性行进的。
第一次感受到了舞台剧的震撼，这还是隔着屏幕的感受，在现场的话，非常幸福了！
the whole world is watching Shanghai
虽然还是金句迭出，但有一种不出所料的倦怠。大概是年纪上去了，对这种政治意图过于明显的片子有点溶不进去。说起来二十年前west wing里的左派们倒有一种向右兼容的勇敢。而今只剩下你死我活的匹夫之勇了。
？？？？？？这个结尾猝不及防。电影本身可谓poorly directed，但索金确实是对话交锋的圣手，仅靠对话去推镜头剧情等一切也能让人体内涌起生理反应的鸡血，并或多或少在他的mansplaining中有所感。（话语权如此性命攸关所以这一整部电影满满当当充斥话语。）（故事中六十年代芝加哥的一切都是为了激励人投票所以这部电影本质也是投票广告。）（顺便，你们知道hayden后来娶了简方达吗。）
割席的、伪善的、精致利己的假温和派 好好看看激进派们在做些什么！
簡單來說就是 911大背景下的微觀群像，除了歌頌團結之類的普遍道德之外也不吝著墨於racist gender之類的沖突，其實是挺典的美式主旋律不過真誠得足夠打動人心😭好想去甘德看看
其实拍得还不错，主要人物性格都鲜明，但很难说hippie和popo谁更令人作呕。
5.1 这部电影的台词直接可以出一本语录了。节奏很好，两个小时非常政治的电影却一点也不觉得让人着急。我本以为是一个悲壮的历史正剧，结果却是一出抓马，但是该讨论到的东西一点没有少，并且结尾真的很煽情！！！
the whole world is watching，望尘莫及
“实际上，今天的世界是由死去的人和活着的人共同构成的，而不是单由活着的人构成，这是一个简单的概念吧，但总是被忽略，没有注意。”这段话出自娄烨，搬出它，是因为我觉得艾伦·索金就是带着这样的态度拍出这部电影的。
抛开其他的想法，看完让我产生思考的是到底存在多少真正意义上的和平游行与和平抗议？世界各地各种组织所组织的各种游行与抗议，我相信里面很多都仅仅只是为了发声，可最后却往往都走向了与政府的对抗，从而产生暴力流血事件！ 很多国家地区还往往都有着可以自由游行自由集会的权利且该权利受法律保护，但对待抗议游行的态度从本片中美国政府的处理就可以管中窥豹，可以说是军警宪特随时待命，不仅不批准场地，明面上有军警周围监控，暗地里还有fbi与警察派人卧底其中，利用民间组织的松散性质和无纪律性质通过情报制定计划产生冲突，从而站在合法的角度上将组织头目一网打尽，最后操控司法机关大搞所谓的“程序正义”审判，这一套流程看的真的让人触目惊心！
“比起政府对我的藐视，我的藐视不值一提。”
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