爱丽丝的失踪

两男一女极简布景——《爱丽丝的失踪》

今天聊聊电影《爱丽丝的失踪》。

片名The Disappearance of Alice Creed (2009)，别名爱丽丝蒸发奇案(港) / 爱丽丝失踪事件簿(台)。

本片是导演J·布莱克森自编自导的处女作长片，影片用极少的演员和极简的布景，完成了一个极为有趣反转颇多的惊悚小故事。

但凡能够闯出一番名号的处女作，作品都是带有鲜明的个人特点和为人称道的优点。本片最大的特点与昆塔《落水狗》类似，没有复杂的布景，仅依靠台词和表演推动剧情，最终呈现一个完成度极高的有趣故事。

就像演职员表所示，《爱丽丝的失踪》全部演员总共就三人。

两男一女共处一室，两名男人是绑匪，女人是被绑架的倒霉蛋。

绑匪里年纪大的叫维克特，面相凶恶，行事干练，一举一动透露出惯犯的自信和沉稳。年纪轻点的叫丹尼尔，看起来唯唯诺诺，唯维克特马首是瞻，复杂打下手，类似从犯角色。

剩下那位女性就是片名提到的爱丽丝。她是一名富家女，老爸很有钱，但她和老爸感情却不见得多好，显得很叛逆。

《爱丽丝的失踪》的主要场景也十分简单，就一座密不透风的房子，绝大部分时间两男一女都在这间房子里度过，顶多加上一辆汽车和废仓库。

简单布景同时，影片还照顾了重口味恶趣味。变装、囚禁、捆绑、受辱、野外……似乎这些极为吸睛的标签都可以用在这部影片上。而且观众们看完正片后也不会觉得有一丝一毫的标题党，这些元素都在影片中有详细表现。

最为亮眼的就是影片剧情。剧情也像布景一样，猛地一看十分简单。绑匪精心策划绑架了爱丽丝，向爱丽丝老爹索要两百万现金。

从影片第一秒开始，凌厉的剪辑就瞬间抓住观众，经验丰富行事干练的绑匪预示着他们将要做一起大案。于是从影片一开始，悬念就设立完成。

而紧随其后的剧情更是反转不断，每每以为事情可以一帆风顺地走下去时，就会来一点儿揪心的小状况。小悬念也没有停过，大到整个绑架案、小到一个弹壳，都能玩出新花样。

好的剧本是成功的一半。《爱丽丝的失踪》优秀的剧本是影片成功的基础，影片进行中持续不断地推出新悬念，慢慢积蓄观众情绪，直到最后高潮彻底宣泄，整体感受酣畅淋漓。

最后回到片名《爱丽丝的失踪》，三个人一顿充满悬念的操作后，最终，爱丽丝还是失踪了……

对于这种强调反转的电影，观众们只需要按照片名去找来看就行。千万不要看那些剧透式详解，所谓详解就是毫无营养地将整个故事复述一遍，观众将毫无观影乐趣可言。

所有的小悬念、小反转，观众一定要沉浸式体验电影时才能有所体会。

两男一女极简布景，

悬念不断反转不停。

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The first and third features from English filmmaker J Blakeson, who most certainly has a partiality for dark and queer characters. TDoAC is a three-person hostage thriller shot on a shoestring, in the mode of William Wyler’s THE COLLECTOR (1965), only more ascetic and messier.

The titular Alice Creed (Arterton) is a rich daddy’s girl, who is kidnapped by two ex-convicts Danny (Compston) and Vic (Marsan), things would go peachy for everyone had it not been the fact that Danny is Alice’s ex-boyfriend, and once this cardinal information is divulged, the whole shebang veers to murkier waters as viewers cannot ascertain who among the three would be the victor, each one seems to an unknown quantity.

The craft on show is adroit, the opening wordless sequences are neat and bracing shot and edited, they smooth the way for audience to gear up for what it is coming - a typical hostage situation set in a single, drab location, where a voluptuous Arterton has to undergo some roughhousing, being gagged, tied, undressed (the usual suspects of S&M fantasy), redressed, and later choked and slapped, but most humiliating of it all, urinating to a bedpan in front of two masked kidnappers.

Well, Blakeson does not actually go to extremes on the path to a torture porn, instead he manipulates various plot twists in a canny way that each time, when a character achieves some sort leverage, the table will be turned in a trice. Also, the fluidity of sexuality plays a major part in the double-cross/counter-double-cross gamesmanship, can sweet nothings soften the gun barrel pointing at your face? Twice out of three you might not luck out.

The long and short of it, TDoAC is an absorbing debut feature mines brilliantly into its meager resource and the outstanding performances from its three players. Can a cowing Eddie Marsan transform himself into a meek lover? You must see for yourself; whereas Martin Compston portrays Danny’s bisexual oscillation with adequacy and Arterton goes for broke in her birthday suit, when all is said and done, countering to what its title alludes to, “disappearance” could be a blessing in disguise.

However, in I CARE A LOT, a Rosamund Pike’s feminist vehicle, Blakeson’s irony and sarcasm goes pitch black. Pike plays a ruthless con woman Marla Grayson, who operates a company legally acquiring the guardianship of elderly people through a duplicitous scheme (often assisted by unscrupulous doctors and inane judges), so their assets are completely at her disposal (though on the face of it, the juridical procedures feel rather facile).

Her gravy train hits a snag when she milks a wrong cow, Jennifer Peterson (a nonplussed then fuming Wiest is always a corker), the apparently perfect candidate, affluent, childless, all alone in the world, actually has a formable friend at court, the Russian mafia boss Roman Lunyov (Dinklage). So when the gloves are off, it is Marla and her girlfriend Fran (González) versus the murderous gangsters, do they have a chance? Or, shall we care?

The answer is yes and no, the ineptitude of Roman’s riffraff is astonishingly shocking (what can you say? they botch not one but two cases of snuffing a defenseless, unconscious woman!), and Marla is depicted as an amoral overachiever, a stony-faced ballbuster, a totally unregenerate bitch (not a scintilla of remorse can be traced on her face), ergo, that really puts audience off from empathizing with her, save for the pungent disgust towards the American Dream she is spoiling for.

If its paint-by-number predator/prey dichotomy sounds trite, its David and Goliath tale seems incredulous and oversimplified, what saves I CARE A LOT from heading to the abyss is Pike. Tricked out in fetching attire and unflappable towards any threats shot at her from the other sex, her Marla is “Amazing Amy” with a vengeance and irrefragably batting for the other team (her affection for Fran is genuine, a viewer might second-guess Marla’s unspecified backstory, how her reprehensible carapace could be the outgrowth of the malefic influence inflicted by the world at large, and Fran’s female warmth becomes her only safe haven). Even in the absence of cordial redeeming feats, it is still riveting to watch Pike’s Marla in action, her fearlessness is both scary and inspiring, you hate her guts but also crave for her guts (or maybe just a part of) ambivalence is here to stay.

At last, Blakeson plumps for poetic justice to put paid to Marla’s unstoppable ascension (can it be construed as a veiled pro-gun testimony? In the United States, the only way for a poor, miserable guy to seek justice from a powerful woman is to use anti-personnel weaponry, how reassuring!), but it feels bathetic, unlike Martin Scorsese’s THE WOLF OF WALL STREET (2013), Blakeson doesn’t know how to dream up a proper coda for a repulsive character, he settles for the safest exit strategy, since everything in I CARE A LOT is Manichaean.

Elsewhere, a debonair Messina lights up the screen as an unethical, soigné lawyer who tries and fails to railroad Marla into dancing to his tunes; Dinklage is always an atypical screen magnet, here his surly temperament is a good match with Pike’s posh sharpness. From TDoAC to I CARE A LOT, the production design goes from drab to hip, Marc Canham’s hypnotic electronic buzz swells and intensifies, but Blakeson’s script and imagination seems to be impeded by a bigger scale and more handsome budget, is it the downside of the money monster?

referential entries: William Wyler’s THE COLLECTOR (1965, 8.0/10); Martin Scorsese’s THE WOLF OF WALL STREET (2013, 8.0/10).

Title: The Disappearance of Alice Creed

Year: 2009

Country: UK

Language: English

Genre: Crime, Thriller

Director/Screenwriter: J Blakeson

Music: Marc Canham

Cinematography: Philipp Blaubach

Editing: Mark Eckersley

Cast:

Gemma Arterton

Martin Compston

Eddie Marsan

Rating: 6.9/10

Title: I Care a Lot

Year: 2020

Country: USA, UK

Language: English

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller

Director/Screenwriter: J Blakeson

Music: Marc Canham

Cinematography: Doug Emmett

Editing: Mark Eckersley

Cast:

Rosamund Pike

Peter Dinklage

Eiza González

Dianne Wiest

Chris Messina

Isiah Whitlock Jr.

Damian Young

Nicholas Logan

Alicia Witt

Macon Blair

Celeste Oliva

Rating: 6.4/10

也算是带给人惊喜的一部小成本电影了

全篇两男一女，只有两个室内场景

总觉得应该是那种剧情很简单，台词很单一，呼吸很粗重的那种羞羞的电影

羞到确实有点羞羞的

但是…...剧情绝不简单

有没有尿点？

鬼刀般的剪辑和配乐，你只会绞尽脑汁思考剧情走向，然后被编剧啪啪打脸

尿点？你敢去撒尿，回来保你一脸懵逼，完全不知道刚才发生了什么

电影爆点不少，对于三观正直的青年来说，有的时候可能会被突然吓的屁滚尿流

比如

这就完了？还早呢！

再比如，赤裸裸的X暗示，估计很多直男得费点纸巾

这部剧真不适合剧透，小成本电影赢就赢在剧本

虽然现在喜欢编剧式观影的大神越来越多了

但对于还没看过先看影评的大多数人来说，一看剧透，本剧毁90%

所以这里直接甩出几个灵魂拷问

如果你看完都能回答

恭喜你，这剧对你来说应该不止价值7分了

灵魂拷问1：爱丽丝异性恋、小V同性恋这个基本无疑，那么你认为丹尼尔真的是双性恋吗？

灵魂拷问2：丹尼尔对爱丽丝或小V是真爱吗？还是一场蓄谋已久的瞒天过海？亦或是如你所见的一步错、步步错，爱比纸薄，命比钱贱？

灵魂拷问3：小V临死为何要救爱丽丝？真的只是人之将死所以变善吗？

灵魂拷问4：丹尼尔明知回去复仇夺金自己就会命不久矣，为何最终还是选择这样的黄粱一梦，而放弃生命？

终极拷问5：导演苦心伏笔的电影名称，为何叫《爱丽丝的失踪》而不叫“绑架爱丽丝”？

以上冷鱼自然有自己的理解，不过一百人眼中有一百个哈姆雷特，如果你看出了自己的理解

那么这部电影，就没有想的那么简单，也同样欢迎留言探讨。

当然，如果看完没法回答，或者你根本不是特别care剧情本身，不要紧

剧情反转反转再反转，基情又激情四射；剪辑给力，bgm完美，果体迷人（男女都是）。以上这些也完全价值7分，作为日常观影爽口小菜，绰绰有余了。

本剧优酷免费观影但略有几分钟果体删减，不过冷鱼自有资源

冷鱼电影VX工号

有些电影，光看开头就能猜到结局；有些电影，反转在结尾，全程耍得观众团团转。

不过相比之下，今天这部电影才叫厉害，因为你永远不知道下一秒会发生什么。

从片名就开始埋下伏笔，真正做到了十几分钟一个转折——

《爱丽丝的失踪》

这是一部典型的小成本电影，整片看下来只有三个演员，两个场景。

最大手笔就是烧了一辆废旧的小货车。

在这种极简的背后需要剧本必须具备足够的张力，观众才不会腻。

幸运的是，《爱丽丝的失踪》做到了。

电影一上来就是一段三分钟的无台词画面，一壮一瘦两个男人在“布置”一个房间。

他们往墙上贴满隔音泡沫，用木板封死窗户，在床上打满钻孔，又在门上安上锁扣…

当一切布置结束之后，画面突然出现了声音。

这是一个女性的惨叫声，她被这两个人绑架，囚禁在了床上。

随后，两人脱光了她的衣服，拍摄了勒索短片。

绑架、伪装、制作短片，一切都一气呵成。

很明显，这是一起有预谋的绑架，被绑的女孩就是我们的女主角 爱丽丝，她是一个富豪的独生女，绑匪目的很明确，要钱！

然而没想到短短几天内，意料之外的事情接连发生。

两个绑匪和一个人质如同坐上了一辆失控的汽车，朝着未知的方向极速狂奔，前路未卜。

第一次转折出现在“壮”劫匪外出时，爱丽丝借上厕所的时机抢下了“瘦”劫匪的枪。

当爱丽丝拿枪指着劫匪的时候，劫匪摘下面罩：原来这个劫匪就是她的男友 丹尼尔！

丹尼尔解释道，我只是太爱你了，想从你父亲那里抢点钱然后和你私奔…

两人僵持不下，此时“壮”劫匪突然回来了，爱丽丝也没有其他的选择，只好配合着丹尼尔继续做戏。

不过是晚了几分钟开门，“壮”劫匪一进来对着丹尼尔就是一顿怒骂。

丹尼尔则唯唯诺诺，不敢吭声。

导演在两个劫匪身上用的篇幅不算多，但几句话几个神态，就将两个人的性格、过往勾勒得入木三分。

而这两个劫匪的深情一吻，也让剧情发展变得更加扑朔迷离。

至此，剧情矛盾点也就全在于丹尼尔的选择。

这场绑架案里，基友、钱、爱丽丝，他到底会选择哪个呢？

值得一提的是，本片虽然处处是反转，但并不是为了反转而反转。

影片中的每一次反转都有剧情前后铺垫，真的不得不佩服导演的剧本功力。

你永远不知道导演在哪里反转，但每次反转又觉得情有可原。

看完整部影片不得不说让人有种淋漓尽致的感觉。

情节紧凑，节奏分明，画面感强烈，有什么理由不去看一看呢？

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