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.
导演运用了很多视觉上的小心思去诠释这样一个叙事诗的题材，和鬼魅浮生一样，整体调性过于装腔作势，使得虚伪骑士毁灭过程流于表面。
男主在里面挺性感的。然而即使留着大胡子，也掩盖不住眼睛所揭露的软弱。当个小白脸还行。这也是大多数男人的通性吧。骑士所具备的素质一如中国的君子。都只是极少数的人。大多数人都是贪生怕死贪财好色好逸恶劳。
镜头语言很美很有范，但剧情无聊，抽象派吗，看睡着了。
一次骨灰之旅，一部未竟之作，前半是与肉身告别，作家的身后事充满灰暗，后半是向生命致意，作家的作品光彩如常。“今天的少年，明天即耄耋”沉重的主题注入90分钟的轻巧体量，入戏未深即已终了，恰如人生之一瞬而过。
当理解了生的意义之后，也就接受了死亡。这部电影除了探讨骑士精神、何为重要之外，感觉还有存在主义/虚无主义的意味。
单就电影而言，我只喜欢它的荒诞不经和中世纪欧洲的布景
画面没得说。情绪不好看不下去。21/08/20
6.5 一则寓言故事，骑士的试炼。考验意志，品质，德行。开放结局留白，视听俱佳。美学风格独特，阴郁的氛围提升电影气质，节奏有点过于冗长，有精美外壳但无实质内核。
一部个人化的作品，献给已过世的兄弟。记忆已经褪色，未来是五彩斑斓的。
处处佳句却仅有半篇佳章。中世纪黑童话寓言故事还是很有趣的。“人的本性并不总是选择好的一面，低劣才是永恒的主导面。”整个过程似乎在用一出又一出的奇观来考验高文自身的信念，用“反向刺激”去洗刷他作为骑士不该有的品质；但看下来有点过犹不及了，过度炫技反而让情感的迸发时时处于崩塌状态，湖底捞头的部分完全拍成了恐怖片，没有必要啊……总之，A24擅长的用阴间活儿讲述形形色色的故事，还算是有一种新的突破。
The first part in B/W could be seen as a journey to bid his brother a moving adieu by transporting the ashes of Pirandello, whose works have been adapted by the brothers, to his Sicilian homeland. Whereas the second part in color is quite confusing for us who have never read the story before. The shift from grey to color is poetic though
成长故事，影像很好，故事立意很简单，塞了很多故弄玄虚的东西。
看哭了。前半段是告别，后半段才是属于莱奥诺拉的故事。送别了一路，不仅仅是因为他是受尊敬诺贝尔奖得主，也不是他是侏儒似的住在孩童的棺材里让人发笑，送别记忆是由战争，历史与记忆共同组成的。影像化的极简和转场的合二为一已经出神入化，送别路上的风尘苦楚，撒骨灰的色调转变，再到最后一幕的三像一体，年轻的，成熟的，老去的，有声，而回音的收尾。《钉子》除了是完成"未完成"的作品，也是一出纪念，如同《平行母亲》的任务是将女性之痛与历史挂钩，而《莱奥诺拉的告别》则是用未完成的和已完成的两部分，代表弟弟送别哥哥，用未完成的献祭已完成的。解决一场影像的割裂与对战争和平的反思，一场导演的技法与影像个人秀，只需要一句"to my brother"。
7.0 西方聊斋，魔幻气氛有了，但是人物刻画一个都不深刻，行为缺少原因和逻辑，剧情推得太快了
低于预期，对大卫洛维有点失望，故事太简单，叙事有点古板，只有精美的画面能看看。
5.我要养毛绒绒小狐狸他看起来好有礼貌的样子不接受反驳！！
很多隐喻符号意识流的东西，不懂用典会看得云山雾罩。
和狗狗说再见那里让我想起了很多次无力痛苦的分别，结尾漫画很温馨很幸福。。。
一部充满现代性的、重述与改写的骑士史诗，高文爵士成了浪荡懦弱的纨绔子弟，英雄传奇也染上了权谋表演的底色，绿衣骑士的树精造型及对绿色的那段直白阐述则似生态批评典例。大卫·洛维依旧喜欢把玩时间魔术，一如那段360度顺时针（显露可能的未来中的尸体）与逆时针（回到当下）的横摇镜头、无头圣女的还魂与尸骨复原，还有高潮时对老马丁[基督最后的诱惑]的效仿致敬。摄影和色彩叙事都可圈可点。180度倒转的镜头、恍若深井的床榻俯拍、误食致幻蘑菇+目击山中巨人群的场面让人眼前一亮，小狐狸很可爱。艾丽西亚·维坎德的一人分饰两角与人偶戏里的[高文爵士与绿衣骑士]（注意那个转盘）别有意味。幻梦中抽出绿色腰带之时契如刨出罪恶之蛇。PS：影片中最让人不寒而栗的还是巴里·基奥恩演的Scavenger一角，秒速穿越回[圣鹿之死]。（8.0/10）
“献给我的孩子们，今日还是青春韶华，明日就垂垂老矣。”
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