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.
凌厉的剪辑，干练的台本与机关枪般的对白是索金的强项，审判法庭戏和真实暴动片段闪回交叉叙事。“如果要流血，那就让鲜血流淌整座城市”，到头来才发现，是我们的血，政府早就安插了卧底，公诉人是他们的，证人是他们的，法官也是他们的，审判不过是流于形式的程序正义。看到最后我真的哭了，一如辩护人般的公义之花开在公权力之上，一如波斯语课般神谕式的念出四千多个烈士名单，相比政府对我们的蔑视，我对政府的蔑视不值一提。9
All world is watching, indeed, we are just watching and free ourselves.
真好看。Aaron Sorkin写了这么好的剧本，然后找了些英国演员来挑大梁。Mark Rylance，Eddie和Sacha Baron Cohen都太棒了。
太敬业了，一人饰演几个角色还那么好看，瞬间切换，好想现场看一次百老汇的表演！剧情也很好，从小处着手，面对危难人类的团结一致，真的很令人动容！
索金成为一流导演的最大障碍就是他是超一流编剧。
配乐淡化了些许工整匠气，学院派的良心之作。
暖心的故事，很感动。剧情精彩，音乐顺耳，表演精湛。看完这电影（音乐剧），谁能不想去newfoundland呢
不算很深入的思考。但是呈现的技巧太厉害了。
编与导上的掌控力把很琐碎繁杂的长达百天的审判拍得通俗易懂，既不枯燥也不刻意煽情，更难得是从被审判者到审判者，每个人物都在有限的时间内被刻画得淋漓尽致。“Do you have contempt for your government? ” - "It's nothing compared to the contempt my government has for me.”所以，是「在“自由”地与强权对抗后仍旧感到巨大的无力」绝望，还是「连“自由”地对抗都不曾拥有」更绝望？
凌厉的剪辑，干练的台本与机关枪般的对白是索金的强项，审判法庭戏和真实暴动片段闪回交叉叙事。“如果要流血，那就让鲜血流淌整座城市”，到头来才发现，是我们的血，政府早就安插了卧底，公诉人是他们的，证人是他们的，法官也是他们的，审判不过是流于形式的程序正义。看到最后我真的哭了，一如辩护人般的公义之花开在公权力之上，一如波斯语课般神谕式的念出四千多个烈士名单，相比政府对我们的蔑视，我对政府的蔑视不值一提。9
在飞机上看完，fly high，get high，这是我2019年疫情前买的最后一张戏票（当然没看成）。狭小的舞台，出色的访谈纪实文本，20年后我们还会感受和相信人的温暖和恐惧嘛。女机长之歌真的动人…
宣传911期间美国北方小镇接纳临时停靠的大量飞机乘客的音乐剧。从舞台布景灯光音乐到演员台词走位唱段无不体现出百老汇一流的制作水准。对比美国社会的现实状况，片中呈现的诸般美好难免透出一丝不真实。
The whole world is WATCHING!!!
“我从来没有想过我要为我的思想而受到审判”。要常常翻翻自己的旧帐烂账脏账，对着镜子照照自己那张碧莲（简称 以史为镜）。
“你是否蔑视你的政府？”“相比政府对我的蔑视，我的蔑视不值一提。”借古讽今得恰到好处，无论是80年代的中国，早两年的香港，还是隔三差五的欧美，什么样的社会结构，这种故事都会存在。艾伦·索金标志性的连珠炮台词，犀利铿锵，一层层的把情绪推进到结案陈词的顶点，一个个名字念出来真是燃动人心。★★★★☆
“与政府对我的蔑视相比，我对政府的蔑视不足一提”需要二刷 4.5
应景是一回事，但如果艾伦索金最拿手的台词没有起到作用，那么他就会显得相当平庸，结尾强起的bgm印证了这种无力。除了萨沙的艾比霍夫曼外人物都颇单薄。“把一件事情说明白了”可算不上什么像样的标准。
真的好想看一次现场。
借古讽今得恰到好处。庭审戏中闪回真实事件场景的剪辑非常有力度。索金的剧本还是那么凌厉。Sacha演得太棒了！只有囧瑟夫毫无存在性完全是个工具人。
看之前没想到这个剧传达的信息这么optimistic 卡司无缝衔接身份转换 in an ideal world 陌生人的善意 世界和平
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