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.
Love can make us alive
仿佛在看好老婆。立个flag今年补完West Wing！
我港的废青看完估计只关注到了思想犯罪而忽略了行为暴力了吧。
《美国之耻》。
疫情看真的太应景了。黑暗中才更能看到善意的光。太温暖了。
其实拍得还不错，主要人物性格都鲜明，但很难说hippie和popo谁更令人作呕。
编剧相当扎实，两位脱口秀演员增加了不少娱乐性，穿法袍那段爆笑如雷。法官塑造是不是太纸面化了，真的是个倔强的老痴呆，只会敲榔头，也想动手扇他。
Life goes on. 有的时候就想逃避一切什么都不管了，孤独也是真的
索金大师不愧是大师，在两个小时的时长内讲述了美国六十年代民运错综复杂的权利与社会关系，通俗易懂丝毫不显臃肿，人物也富有个性，法庭戏也不枯燥，如果要挑缺点那就是这片太匠气了，太靠剧本了，少了些灵气。演员都是拿奖的种子选手，最后对暴乱的直面展现也是颇有趣味。这个片子很适合和今年维吉尼亚金拍的迈亚密一夜一起看，各个民运派系观点的冲撞以及民运所附带的责任，这两部片讲的都很有意思。
工工整整的本子，基于还原历史真实事件的剧本很不好写，何况律政题材要尽量贴近乏味现实更难驾驭。能做到呈现出来这样的结构，加上凌厉剪辑锦上添花。艾伦索金发挥了多年优秀编剧沉淀下来的经验，交足一个功课——有些影片，社会意义大于影片本身。
20211123——266；荣获托尼奖的一部百老汇音乐剧。为纪念911事件20周年而作，根据真实故事改编。38架飞机迫降加拿大纽芬兰甘德小镇。12位演员，男女各半，在迫降旅客与小镇居民角色间转换，情绪饱满，故事感人。
好久没有一场表演能同时带来两种眼泪了。
法庭戏➕艾伦·索金的剧本，字幕已经看不过来。全世界都在看：有些人在推翻，有些人在伪装。
导演方面其实胜过编剧的，比如开场。全片靠法官的反派光环撑起剧情张力，而对诸如那个在人群中触发对抗的真正引爆情节的无名示威者避而不谈，如果说艾伦索金对民权运动本身不感兴趣，那么他又是如何展示司法体制和意识形态的关联以及权力的蛮横？影片的态度跟最后念名单时不住敲案的法官一样泄气。
好久没有一场表演能同时带来两种眼泪了。
剧本写得很紧凑，演技都不错，真实历史故事很精彩，每个人物的wikipedia page都精彩纷呈啊。Ramsey Clark代理了萨达姆的辩护案。
对美国政治不了解 看得我一脸懵逼 以至于最后的唱戏觉得有点尬。
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剪辑很好，简洁有力，干净利落地向观众交代清楚了复杂时代下的复杂事件，体现了好莱坞的工业水准。但是我并不是很能共情这些被审判的人，也许在历史事实上他们的遭遇确实有引人义愤的一面，可当他们的事迹进入文化工业，成为好莱坞在选战中的手榴弹，那么他们的角色和他们自身就都已经变成了工具人。
一个温暖的故事，一场意外带来的意想不到的迫降，每个小镇居民都尽力提供最好的条件给陷入恐慌的乘客们，关于爱的笑泪共存的故事。原卡yyds，女机长姐姐太帅了。
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