影片主(🐔)角是一个78岁的英国著名(📥)作家(🍾),他身患重病却仍然酗酒成性,口不择言。夜(🏾)晚不(🗣)时陷于噩梦(♏)的(📔)缠绕中,令他想入非非,一边琢磨着他(🏺)最后一(☔)部作品(🚶)的情(🙉)节构思(🚄),一边回忆着他(💢)的往事。于是,噩梦、(🈯)他的想象加上往事的回忆相互混淆在一起,共同(🏡)构(🐾)成了他作(🐥)品的故事框(🛐)架。 影(📹)片将文学创作的过程跟(💜)幻想、愤怒等融为一体,制造了一个精致(🥄)的弗洛伊德哑谜。这是雷奈的第一部用英语拍摄(😲)的影片。剧本比较拗口罗嗦(👃),有较重(💵)的文学味,影片被(🚋)认为是雷奈的杰作,博加(💿)德的演出(✊)尤为(💢)精湛,但一般观众可能会(🛌)觉(🥝)得单调乏(🚎)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