影片主角是(shì )(🐽)一个(📼)78岁的英国著名(🕋)作家,他身患重病却(🍥)仍然(rán )(🔧)酗酒成性(🥈),口不择言。夜晚不(bú )时陷于噩梦的缠绕中,令(🌗)他想入(rù )非(fēi )(😎)非,一边琢(zhuó )磨着他最(zuì )后一(yī )(🛍)部作品(pǐn )(🕯)的情节构思(sī ),一(🛹)边回(🏐)忆着他的往事。于(yú )是,噩梦(✖)、他(tā )的(de )想(🖍)象(🚑)加(jiā )上往事(shì )的回忆(🤷)相(🔊)互混淆在一起,共同构成了(🚨)他(🛑)作品的故事框架。
(🗞)影片将文(✋)学创作(zuò )的过程(chéng )跟幻想(xiǎng )、愤怒(💪)等融(róng )为一体,制造(zào )了一个精致的弗洛伊德哑谜。这是雷奈的第一部用(⚾)英语(🌮)拍摄(shè )的影片。剧(💹)本比较(🥊)拗口罗嗦(suō )(💍),有较重的文学味,影片被认为(wéi )(🤷)是雷奈的杰作,博(🐩)加(jiā )德的演出尤(💿)为精湛(zhàn ),但一般观(guān )众可(📛)能会(huì )觉(jiào )得单(🥤)调乏(👵)味(wèi )。
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?