Carol Jeffries (known as 'Jeff') is a naive American woman staying in the Phillipines. She is given ten years in prison after being set up by her drug-dealer boyfriend, Rudy. She endures the harsh conditions, sadistic head matron and attempts on her life, then convinces her cell-mates to try to escape with her through the jungle, in spite of the knowledge that ruthless trackers will be sent out after them. ”
“ Legend has it that Sam Arkoff, head of American International Pictures saw a statuesque Grier at his company switchboard and cast her on the spot for her breakthrough hit Coffy. That, as they say, is bull shee-it. The former beauty queen made her film debut in 1970 as an extra in Russ Meyer's big breast bonanza Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls, and appeared in a number of B-pics shot in the Philippines the following year for AiP's rival company, Roger Corman's New World Pictures. Alongside her role as the tough-as-nails prostitute in Big Doll House were supports in the horror flick The Twilight People and as a topless hooker (again!) in Cool Breeze, then back behind bars for Women In Cages.
In Women In Cages, Grier plays the sadistic warden for once, a pot-smoking lesbian with a fully-equipped torture chamber (including a guillotine!). The 'New Fish' (a recent inmate, for you prison film novices), a ditzy blonde ex-stripper called Alabama, has taken the heroin possession rap for her pimp boyfriend. She knows too much, so the pimp blackmails her cellmates to execute her. A competent and well-shot entry in the tropical prison genre from Filipino director Gerry De Leon, it places the embittered ex-addict and prostitute Grier in the position of slave owner, watching her white charges toiling away in the plantation with obvious ironic glee.
黑男搭配白女的选举年左翼造势意图太过明显,后面的人格互换的核心设定又落于俗套,别说以往单单本年度就有一部杀人狂魔与内向女学生的换身片。但最大问题还是用动画去表现此类题材,那种互换变身后的奇特而尴尬的微妙感觉你无法通过滚圆无褶馄饨一体的动画角色面部微表情去展示。动画的特长是将动物人格化和人物虚夸化(钢琴师的茄子脸)。这一出一入就在客观上大幅降低了人与动物之间的物种差异,所以他们之间性格互换,诸如人行猫事或者猫说人话,并不能产生真人电影中的那种反差奇趣——动画片里的猫狗本来就说人话!……本位特点相互背离的动画形式与性格互换题材属于结构性错搭,加上离魂天堂走一遭的概念也在仿袭英伦经典迈克鲍威尔的《平步青云》。纵然天梯算盘和毕加索抽象天使曾让人眼前一亮,也仅仅是短暂惊艳而已。两星半。
Ryan Gosling saved Jazz and it killed Jamie Foxx. 平行解构现实堪比Inside Out,情节紧凑冲突刺激笑点炸裂,内容充实同时内核又饱满,一边讲灵魂一边更讲生活,没有目的真的会活得很辛苦,而活在当下又谈何容易。最好的黑人电影
奇幻的心灵之旅,帮助他人即帮助自己,人生不一定需要寻找什么高大上的特定目标,学会好好地活在当下就已经很好🧐😏
这是一个钢琴老师和没有名字的22号的故事,令人想起1900。
very spiritual very new age and im not surprised :)good to be alive.
希望短评里那么多被感动到手敲鸡汤文字的人,能真的把这份感悟和感触付诸于生活。
very spiritual very new age and im not surprised :)good to be alive.
还不错,很轻松,很典型的好莱坞剧本。但是idea还是棒的,新世界的规则我看第一遍没太看明白,对于新名词的阐释太过简单啦。遗憾是,jazz有点少了哈哈哈
活在当下,好简单的一句话,即使这么简单,也可以这么精彩。谢谢皮克斯。
好看!制作完美。也许在新冠肆虐的这一年有些特别意义:所拥有的不一定是理所当然的。很喜欢理发店吃棒棒糖那段,猫看乔伊的眼神就是我看很多朋友恢复健康的眼神!还有最后把人类导师都做成反派也很可爱,成功学滚蛋
没有给出答案,不必给到具体的答案。“灵魂不会被压垮,压垮你的是生活啊。”这是一部“打工人”之歌,并不童话,有门槛,2021奥斯卡最佳动画片非他莫属。无论怎样,热爱你所热爱,享受珍惜当下的生活。看的有点压抑,但又都get到它的点。想起《寻梦环游记》,故事上弱了一些,但依然是年度佳片。
没有预期般那么击中我,但是,必须承认这片拍的真厉害,过去了这么多年,皮克斯居然还在超越自己,用简单的故事去拓宽动画电影的深度和广度
反思自己。一无是处,但是努力活着。
在电影院里看哭了。飘落的树叶,洒落的阳光,孩子的欢笑,海边的浪花,亲人的拥抱……每一个镜头都能触动我。生活本身是没有意义的,但是认真地过好每一天就是意义。Live at the moment.
太治愈了,尤其是对于我这种梦想将灭未灭的中年人。当然这部电影对于我来说还有点独家意义,那就是它完美的还原了纽约的生活,对于在那里生活过一段时间的人来说倍感亲切,不是矫情,真的是怀旧了。
我們所經歷的每個平常的日常,就是連續發生的奇跡
好治愈呀,最戳的是那些脑子里只有目标的人其实是 lost souls。所谓的 spark 并不是人生目标,只不过是让你愿意尝试生活的 last mile 罢了,人生哪来的那么多精确又决绝的追求。前半段 22 的心路历程和我始终想不到以何种形式呈现的胚胎选择权桥段有点像哦
活在当下,好简单的一句话,即使这么简单,也可以这么精彩。谢谢皮克斯。
(说起来,找 与 我 两个字写起来好像,也许人活一生都是在努力找到自我吧)就算碌碌无为也不是什么可怕的事情。真的治愈到了。
“理想如果都实现了,然后呢?你会继续问自己,人活着最重要是什么?不是爱,不是恨,不是痛,也不是成功与失败,而是感知,有些人把它看作是庸俗的生活,有人却认为它是活着的全部意义。”——盲忙
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