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].
又又又又又是傲慢与偏见到底还有多少编剧在混水摸鱼。
小鸡电影来说值得四⭐了，女主男主颜值演技都在线，不浮夸也够撩，适合假期被窝观看哈哈~
# Venice 78 没有抢到沙丘的选择，这种电影大概只能在大荧幕上感受到迷人的魔力吧
5.5分，男女互动还行，前半段斗法太短，根本就是在调情。
最近很喜欢看一些口水电影 和炸鸡可乐非常配 轻松的享受一下生活
男主身材不错（想看看正面，但是魅力有限，女主很可爱灵动，男二虽然nerdy但是很可爱
这片评分只有六分?算牌人虽然没有保罗施耐德前作第一归正会那般狠辣，但还是保留了其延续至今的创作理念——自杀式袭击是否能真正挽救一个人的过错以及实现社会的进步，这一点立意的阐述要比把暴力运动粉饰成平权运动的sb片妇女参政论者强太多了。除此之外，算牌人还讽刺一些无脑幼稚的青少年无法看清矛头来源(类似第一归正会和玉子讽刺极端环保主义者)。反派戈多有一句话说的没错，在这里无需要分辨黑白对错，获取一切有利于人民的利益(假借国家二字)[/狗脸]
bgm好听是真的。
having my dinner alone with it, enjoyable
以为是个商业性的赌片。然后好像他要完成一个厚重的任务，又好像电影想表达一种宗教类的神秘内涵，也像要对社会、国家、政治进行控诉，又跑偏到为相对小众人权发声，所以啥也不是。呸！
我以为是个小甜饼，但是看下来我并不吃这种设定，我理解不了这种斯德哥尔摩式的莫名其妙的爱情，再帅的对象也不行。如果我讨厌一个人，除非他有什么惊天逆转的表现或者解释，最多可以理解然后变为普通熟人，但是突然爱上？最后一刻还搞什么反转误会？拉倒吧。
我很好奇女拳看了这个电影如何感想。无论如何，我很后悔浪费时间了。
本片延續了保羅施拉德編劇的《出租車司機》以及《基督最後的誘惑》等對戰後創傷，孤獨憤怒，自我救贖等主題，編導風格壓抑剋制，並無一般賭片那般緊張刺激，但一觸即發的暴力處理得讓人屏氣凝神。保羅施拉德刻畫的救贖之路，是無法用金錢，愛情，法律就可以洗清的罪孽，賭徒再是精于計算，也無法脫離命運的擺弄，那種扭曲，地獄的虐囚經驗造就了他自毀之路，保羅施拉德藉由此片控訴了美國的愚蠢無情的愛國主義暴力，沾染鮮血的手亦能作惡，也能懲奸，亦能像羅伯特布列松的《扒手》一般用手指在囚禁和自由間傳情。
C＋/ 对数字影像语境下城市景观的平面性显得更加敏感，由此能将人物内在和外部世界摊开在同一维度。但与此同时视听的扭结上又太过松垮，以至于时不时显得过于嘈杂，过于标举着氛围、情绪乃至只有推进叙事的效果，无法让人物维持在被扰动的开放状态。假如关于监禁与安全的社会批判仍在前半段的多种媒介的穿插中有些奏效，那么后半段嵌入或是仅仅浮游于权力关系的救赎就完全是剧作意志主导下空幻的施拉德式cliche——只不过失却了《第一归正会》里那种翻转于污浊与圣洁之间的沉静罢了。
还挺好的片子，很轻，壮汉好像故意贴合女性，打造了女性的梦中情人，可以完美结局的职场恋爱，很轻松，我这男的看感觉就不太真实，但还好，国内职场剧的精简版。
现如今chick flick越来越少了 且看且珍惜
呼吸部分跟冥想相关，这一部分比较吸引人。但是关于救赎，电影表达的差劲。
2022/02/13
反正也是杀时间
男女主的化学反应真是没得说。好久没看过这种俗得我很喜欢的电影了。
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