Salomé (1923), a silent film directed by Charles Bryant and starring Alla Nazimova, is a film adaptation of the Oscar Wilde play of the same name. The play itself is a loose retelling of the biblical story of King Herod and his execution of John the Baptist (here, as in Wilde's play, called Jokaanan) at the request of his stepdaughter, Salomé, whom he lusts after.
Salomé is often called one of the first art films to be made in the U.S.[citation needed] The highly stylized costumes, exaggerated acting (even for the period), minimal sets, and absence of all but the most necessary props make for a screen image much more focused on atmosphere and on conveying a sense of the characters' individual heightened desires than on conventional plot development.
Despite the film being only a little over an hour in length and having no real action to speak of, it cost over $350,000 to make. All the sets were constructed indoors to be able to have complete control over the lighting. The film was shot completely in black and white, matching the illustrations done by Aubrey Beardsley in the printed edition of Wilde's play. The costumes, designed by Natacha Rambova, used material only from Maison Lewis of Paris, such as the real silver lamé loincloths worn by the guards.
No major studio would be associated with the film, and it was years after its completion before it was released, by a minor independent distributor. It was a complete failure at the time and marked the end of Nazimova's producing career.
A longstanding rumor, which seems to have started while the film was still in production, suggests that its cast is comprised entirely of gay and bisexual actors in an homage to Oscar Wilde, as per star and producer Nazimova's demand. It is, of course, impossible to say, but one of the extras in Salomé reported that a number of the cast members—both featured and extras—were indeed gay, but not an unusual percentage of them, and certainly not all of them. What can be said is that Nazimova herself was a lesbian, the two guard characters (who, next to Salomé, have the most screen time) are at least played very stereotypically gay, and several of the female courtiers are men in drag.
Salomé was screened in 1989 at the New York International Festival of Lesbian and Gay films and in 1990 at the New York Gay Experimental Film Festival.
In 2000, the United States Library of Congress deemed the film "culturally significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry.
叙事比较炫技，但是故事内核相对薄弱，有些地方比较刻意，水平不太行，浪费了好演员。
一部让人如鲠在喉的国产悬疑新作，质量不上不下，优缺点明显。首先这部电影的故事很脱离现实，不知道编剧是不是剧本杀的狂热发烧友，整个剧情从头到尾都有着严重的刻意设计痕迹，那些无数的巧合和不停的反转，只要观影者稍微推敲一下便会感到逻辑漏洞，好的是影片通过悬疑片特有的倒序插叙等叙事结构，再加上不错的讲述节奏，将这些令人难以信服的情节还算流畅地拼接了起来，同时也弱化了诸多合理性的问题，可即便如此，影片中所呈现的与人物设定及现实情形严重背离的bug还是泛滥成灾，最终全片在窦骁弱智的一番话和愚蠢的操作下彻底崩塌，将电影推向低智，而在本来黑色背景的故事中强行升华道德的手法，也着实显得突兀和尴尬，让影片主题看起来不伦不类。演员们的表演还是优秀的，范伟和张颂文自不必说，朱珠更是风情万种，窦骁这次也算是有点突破。
典型的三一律戏剧式作品，这类作品作为处女作在结构上是比较容易出彩的，因为相对好驾驭的多，但同时对剧本和表演的要求更高了，带有一些黑色幽默的属性，但最终结尾的反转没能带来足够的心理冲击力，而且编剧刻意的和观众打信息差，严格来说也很难算是一部足够优秀的悬疑作品，凶手身份只埋了之前新闻这一条伏笔，终究有些单调，范伟这个角色太简单了，应该更复杂一些，真正复杂的人物只有凶手一人，很难称之为精彩
小惊喜，喜剧搭配悬疑还带着点惊悚的杂糅片，没什么大bug，整体尚能及格。
故事叙述方式充满悬疑，故事逻辑有瑕疵但无大碍。结局真凶若逃走会更精彩。对黑色产业链的控诉让这个电影不只停留在黑色幽默的肤浅。
37th with Tao. ——2021.10.16 @学清路嘉华
商业片，有点故弄玄虚的意思，感觉是应把反转逻辑灌输给观众，镜头切换主人公，硬切，不够自然。
孩子们的合唱那一幕有点震撼。摄影视角太单一了，导致不同人的角度看故事的时候重复画面很多，层层反转的快感少了好多。感觉故事情节还是有点单薄撑不起来一整部电影，不过窦骁最后黑化的时候也是蛮带感的。
三星半。可能多数人希望的结局，是在警察冲入房间，把小马堵个正着时结束吧，或许这种所谓的开放结局会更让人钟于打高分，不过喜欢HE的我，还是愿意为好人至少没有恶报的结尾，多打半星。
挺不错的悬疑喜剧片，可惜也是选错了档期。密室悬疑杀人案，不同角色的逐渐加入，让剧情有了不同角度的解读。特别是刻意隐瞒身份的角色，让剧情更加扑朔迷离。梁超演的尤老板戴眼罩那段很搞笑，喝了牛奶乳糖不耐受拉肚子那段又有点恶心。缺点是不同角色经历的情景有完全相同的重复片段，换个角度拍也不至于减分。
头开得不错，可惜编剧和导演功力不够，结尾圆不回来。但是演员们的整体表现还行，只是被剧本的逻辑不严谨给拖累了。贩卖儿童乞讨的时代背景应该放在90年代，看了看评论，明显有很多年轻观众对这种操作感到陌生，改成恋童癖买儿童，都会比乞讨更有说服力一些。
小成本电影。范伟的声音哪个片都这么有辨识度。
挺好看，但剧情的紧张感因为太熟悉演员而减弱不少，总觉得格局不太大，巧合也挺多。
其实还行，我以为是要拿小朋友做文章的，没想到后面警察来了，谁报警了吗？
故事是个好故事，但是剪接的不行，不够流畅缺乏眼前一亮的惊喜，而故事本身有这个惊喜。
反转到疲劳，巧合到离奇，青年导演为了讲个故事真可谓绞尽脑汁了。
21.11.23
这个场景选得好，诡异的圆形楼梯房很有感觉，抽丝剥茧的反转，还是挺有意思
不能说反转，叫拼图更准确一点。直播男在厕所被锁了几个小时？这个太夸张了！
有些俗套，但是这就像看人一样，确实不应该偏听偏信。
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