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.
应该是看的第一部洪尚秀电影🎬，个人风格极其强烈，是那种静下来看能获得能量的电影。当然，女主角金敏喜实在是太美太好了，我要在假期把她的电影都补一补。
“不是纪录片”，洪常秀借李慧英的角色说道，但他却用真实的影像来倒置并思考了整个虚构-电影与现实的关系，又在影片中详细阐述对创作本身的理解，因此字幕放完后的“出戏”才是洪提出的终极问题：被“真实”所打动又是否足够？厄斯塔什式的，唯有经过“真实”，才能显示出场面调度之美：让我们回归电影中。
6.9分左右。
3.5。1.写给金敏喜的情书，影片中未出现的丈夫、女小说家，都可以理解成创作者本身，金敏喜成为洪常秀的缪斯，简直是疏解了自2010s以来洪常秀的创作困境。2.独自在电影院里看一部有关自己的短片，银幕上满是笑容、阳光，以及召之即来的色彩，这怕也是表演者的一种期待。3.洪常秀电影虽然一直以来谈谈情、喝喝酒、做做爱，但每一部诉求都不尽相同，每一部都有创作者的巧思，模糊戏里戏外的真实，窗外的凝视着的小女孩等等。
还是永远少不了的尬聊，咖啡，吃东西，喝酒，聊天，顺便在和纪录片一样的叨逼叨中吐槽着表达着想说的一切
洪常秀一如既往用镜头去捕捉人物的特质，在一次次对焦深望里反而坠入了无可估量的眩晕失重，是日常对话里的不适，也是熟悉场景中的陌生。
就是一群人互相围着各种话题聊了一个半小时，几乎没有情节的起伏，摄影机也基本上没有动过几次。感觉洪导的想法挺有趣的，拍的应该是他和金敏喜的日常状态。又觉得他这样拍的真的对观众很极端，极具私人性。也算是很特别的观影体验了，看几个人从头说到尾，自己也深深陷进这样的影像中了。
两星都给台词……
表象是创作力衰竭，进入瓶颈期后因一次重逢、一种偶然、一场会晤而顿生的灵感再现，这种灵感是创作者有意为之的、带有目的性的自我挖掘与试探，试图在灵感匮乏的时期以崭新的形式激活另一条思路。内核却是几次创作飞速蜕变，创作力只增不减，从文本到形式在细微处呈大幅变迁，神来之笔屡现，这种蓬勃的创作态势在其当下的阶段成为某种步入大师殿堂的证言。值得深究的是，在表象与实质内核间，文本用以反讽的作用以及其实际目的。连贯风格的同时，仍以令一般观众无法察觉的文本变化来隐藏其内里深刻的蜕变，从细微的变化中掌握叙事的主动权，在影像真实与否的疑问中传递超脱于一般电影语言所能给到的信息。色彩变化只为一束花，一个镜头特写只为纯粹的真实与烂漫。短暂的几帧画面把先前平整的叙事给打破，影像与现实进行互文，电影成为其收纳生活的艺术品
都在夸洪金的恩爱，但我对他俩实在羡慕不来；我要赞美李慧英的카리스마！教训一身爹味的权海骁那里实在太搞笑。
终于不用看洪电影里的男猥琐知识分子了，i love u 那句hhhh 金敏喜有点甜
很私人。幸好我看过不少洪，我大概明白他还在通过拍一样的电影通过敏敏持续了解女性和女性之间的神奇领域，最后的表白，被误解为想要表达一种浪漫的告白，真想拍拍他的头，请他继续吧别放弃。持续林间散步，做你的哲学
“自由”的拍电影。是从这部看到洪常秀他的理念。从这部片子开始才看出，他为什么放弃摄影组和一切技术，回归亲手操作展现现实与电影的互文。当金敏喜和摄影背后的洪常秀互相说「我爱你」和金敏喜被风吹得不断眨眼还一直看着洪常秀的眼神，他两个在电影与现实两个时空重叠，此时，洪常秀的主题不再是一层不变地不断重复自己，他的生活或许有了新的进展。小女孩的设计可能是私人的（不能喝酒的金敏喜说要处理生活上的事），或许吧。
松散的由媒介赋予情感的影像，在一场场自反性的对话中，构成一种关于“作者性”本身的统一，当经验者变为了观众，当观众借由经验者变为了创作者，这种人与人之间微妙的结构赋予了这看似粗糙的影像背后的诗意情境。
完全镜像反应导演的情况让人想很多但没什么意义；如果那个小女孩是即性的就牛了
2022.4.21 韩国首映 Cinecube. 洪尚秀变了…变了好多…已经脱离了很多 越来越纯粹了 好像就是电影本身 虽然无法定义 但电影本身就是这样。金敏喜就像普通人一样，捧着狗尾巴花，笑着，哼着婚礼进行曲，纯粹本身。
小说家的状态挺喜欢的，好像那些旧的联系并没有那么重要，电影才更重要一些。
洪导的电影虽然多数我也都很喜欢，但这部真的是洪导最近这几年最牛的一部
要不是因为这个名字，都不想看洪常秀了。像他这样拍电影，一个月能拍六个。吃饭时过爆，捧花时虚焦……最低级的错误都没有人提了。片尾转彩色更是用烂了。
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