(🌠) 影片主(zhǔ )角是(🐽)一个78岁的英国著名作家,他(🛍)身(shēn )(🔱)患重病却仍然酗酒成性,口(kǒu )不(bú )(🌰)择(🍖)言(🔬)。夜晚(🐮)不(bú )时陷于噩(📿)梦(mèng )的(👋)缠绕中(zhōng ),令他想入非非,一边(🐿)琢磨着(👑)他(🎩)最后(hòu )一部(🎡)作品的情节构思,一边回忆着(zhe )他的往事。于是,噩(🍮)梦、他(😻)的(de )想象加(jiā )(🐶)上往(wǎng )事的回忆相(xiàng )互混淆(xiáo )在一起,共同构成了他(tā )作品(😞)的故(🔢)事(❔)框架。
影片将文学创作的过程(chéng )跟幻想、愤怒(nù )等融(róng )为(wéi )一(yī )(🈴)体,制造(🤷)了(👃)一个(🔔)精致(zhì )的弗洛伊德哑谜。这(🎋)是雷奈的(de )第一部用英语拍(pāi )摄(shè )(🗳)的(de )(🤘)影片。剧本比较(🥊)拗口罗嗦(suō ),有较(jiào )重的文学味(🐛),影片被认为是雷奈(nài )的杰(🚶)作,博(bó )加德(dé )的演出尤(yóu )为精湛(zhàn ),但一般(bān )(😙)观众(zhòng )可能会(huì )觉得(dé )单调乏(fá )(👵)味。
(🚲)Clive Langham (Sir John Gielgud) spends one tormenting night in his bed suffering from health problems and thinking up a story based on his relatives. He is a bitter man and he shows, through flashbacks, how spiteful, conniving and treacherous his family is. But is this how they really are or is it his own vindictive slant on things?