New York private detective Duncan "Mac" MacLain is blind but has keenly developed all his other senses. He pursues his work assisted by his faithful guide dog Friday, his butler, Alistair, and his assistant, Marty. Retired actress Norma Lawry, an old friend, comes to Mac seeking advice. Her headstrong 17-year-old step-daughter Barbara, herself a promising actress, is enamored with her leading man in a small theater production, the much older Lothario Paul Gerente. Paul, who had once been Norma's lover, has convinced Barbara that Norma actually wants Paul for herself and has only married her father Stephen for his money. At Mac's urging, Norma tried to reason with Paul, but he insists that he loves Barbara and laughs her off. Barbara is equally disdainful of her and agrees to meet Paul for dinner that night at his apartment.
Norma's husband Stephen Lawry is a scientist leaving that night on a trip to test a secret invention on which he has been working for the government and the war effort. Worried about Barbara, she uses a pretext not to accompany Stephen and goes to the apartment. When Barbara arrives, she finds Paul's dead body and thinks that Norma has killed him, even though Norma insists that he was dead when she arrived. Barbara threatens to call the police unless she leaves Stephen. Fearing that a scandal will hurt him, Norma agrees. Norma then turns to Mac, who goes to Paul's apartment with Friday and Marty, only to find the body and the rug under it missing. A man arrives to replace the rug and Mac hides in a closet, overhearing a telephone call to Norma's number from "Gabriel" to "Vera." Mac accidentally gives himself away, but with Friday's help overpowers Gabriel, who refuses to talk. Mac has Marty hide him to keep him under wraps.
Norma returns to her country home unexpectedly, which discourages an espionage ring that includes her butler, Hansen, from breaking into Stephen's safe and stealing his plans. They have killed Gerente, who was also an agent, and hidden the body. Mac arrives with Friday at Norma's house and pretends to be her curmudgeonly "Uncle Mac" who has come for a visit. His blindness lulls any suspicions Hansen might have about him. Shortly thereafter, Barbara comes home from an "emergency rehearsal", called to get her out of the house by her director, Cheli Scott, who inveigles an invitation to spend the night at the Lawry home. Unknown to Barbara and Norma, Cheli is the ringleader of the spies. Cheli ordered Paul killed because his affection for Barbara was beginning to limit his effectiveness, and she immediately suspects Mac is not what he seems.
Gabriel's wife Vera, the Lawrys' maid, is also a part of the plot. When Gabriel does not return home, Vera becomes hysterical with worry. Mac secretly asks Vera to meet him in the greenhouse, using her worry about Gabriel as a lure. She is observed by the others, however, and is killed by Hansen before she can reach Mac. The spies cut the house's telephone wires so that Mac and Norma cannot call the police, and Cheli has Mac locked up under guard. Using his blindness as a distraction, Mac overpowers his guard and releases Friday out a window with instructions to "go home and get Marty." Stephen arrives home and Cheli threatens his family if he does not give her the final step in creating his invention, which was not in the safe. Barbara finally realizes how much Norma actually cares for her. Mac tries to stall for time, but is locked in the cellar. When Hansen goes to kill him, Mac has broken the light bulb and his advantage of total darkness helps him overcome the spy. Marty and Friday return with the police. When Friday is spotted by a lookout, Mac overpowers him and is saved from being shot by another lookout by Friday. After the spies are captured, Stephen and Norma are off to Washington, D.C., with Barbara remaining behind to care for her new "Uncle Mac."
继《SOHO夜惊魂》之后，2021令人崩溃的名导新片和观影体验。。。。原版《玉面情魔》1947 真香，新版让我想无限吐槽。
靠火太近会被焚。
《水形物语》、《潘神的迷宫》吉尔摩德尔托罗执导，经典翻拍1947年同名电影，Bradley Cooper全裸上阵，全片散发着迷人的中年男人气息。鲁妮玛拉和大魔王Carol (2015) 后再度交锋。还有威廉达福的精彩表现，虽然觉得并没有什么发挥的空间。片子更像是对老电影的一种致敬，没有所谓的深度，片中角色人物的的动机也显得单纯甚至愚蠢，但好在演员的演技都在线，让原本平淡如水的影片变得可看性适中。
横扫威尼斯和奥斯卡之后，托罗的作者话语权达到巅峰，这反映在第一幕恋物癖式的马戏团部分失衡的冗长。但当这个伪通灵者傲慢踏上自己末途时，电影在祛魅式的算计和神秘的命运，在旧时代方术和新时代技术之间交迭，并最终回归马戏团，回归circus的本意——命运无尽轮回。如果托罗把恋物癖趣味放一放，花更多篇幅来塑造电影中这几位女士，这本可以是他最杰出作品，现在却只有半出好戏。 @西湖电影资料馆
现在这种电影真的是不多见了，难怪斯科塞斯老爷子认为大家应该去看一看。我确实是守旧，这种近乎手艺人的感觉，cult电影的气质，真是太戳我了。说回电影本身，也就是说，这个lowlife，不管怎样，最后他都是piece of shit，因为他没法控制自己的欲望，克服自己的弱点。highborn也不是因为克服得住自己的弱点而成为highborn的，人性中有无法克服的欲望和弱点。社会有运行的规则，拒绝相信有什么命定
有些地方剧情设置没有说服力，但整体是好看的，库珀这次演的还可以
剧作还是很优秀，可惜主卡司之间毫无火花，以致于人物生死并不抓观众的心，无法引起任何共鸣。
与生俱来的纯真，不惧荆棘密布，不畏泥潭沼泽，对世界彼端的向往，纯真少年，勇往直前！
拍得非常精致，摄影、服装、化妆、灯光等都相当讲究、舒服，演员表演也很克制。这部影片翻拍过几次，按理说故事应该没什么问题，关键在于整体节奏、悬念、手法的创造和运用。现在看，镜头运用似乎还是比较平稳、传统，难以让人感受到新奇之处。
比老版冗长太多，加入过多心理分析元素（特别是父亲这条线），男主贪婪本性大大削弱，可惜陀螺除了画面感外并没有带来什么实质性的东西。
除了最开始的两个学校，后面出来的人没一个记得的。灵魂出窍什么鬼。。。这些人儿时稍微玩两天就是刻骨铭心了= =
马戏团完全是陀螺展览他怪诞爱好的场所，以至于第一幕过长，中段和心理师的相爱相杀蛮有张力，而最终，读心者永远读出自己被反噬的宿命。三星半。
为什么结局整这么中二 附什么身淋什么雨 就不能让真琴和遥好好腻歪五分钟？！就五分钟不行吗！一句回家打游戏就打发走了？！岂可修！！
观赏性很强的院线片。画面、音乐和服装都很美，有着浓重的宿命感和悲剧感。骗中骗的结构，以弱胜强又和《犬之力》不谋而合。男人们自以为掌握了一切，结果还是被女人abandoned, haunted and executed。男主原本是可以成为福尔摩斯那样的人哪！
缓慢的节奏，如果再慢我得说服自己是在看美剧了。虽然对老版进行了改编但是整部片还是很老派。
不是吧，陀螺？一众大牌演了平淡的二战前故事，夹带太多陀螺的珍藏私货，尤其在嘉年华时期。
50多分钟,正片才刚开始，然后我就睡过去了。
总之剧情有些狗血有蛮搞笑期待明年4月的后篇！
问题或许出在成像风格上，陀螺的调子总感觉马上就有水怪或魔杖要登场了，而film noir要的只有黑色。PS. 达福演的那叫Clem Hoately啊
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