第一次看卡萨维蒂这部电影有一种强烈的窒息感特别是在群戏场合突然出现的长时间沉默时熟女CHACHACHA这种感觉成倍增加导演有非常精准细腻的捕捉能力演员的表演令人五体投地看似是woman under the influence实际上所谓施加影响的人也在影响之中所有人的言行举止都很奇怪自身上都有强烈的矛盾仔细观察双方整个家庭的话会发现问题并不仅仅是一个人的最后Mabel回家后那种欲言又止的克制真的绝
Losey keeps everything to a disarming cool, downplaying psychological irregularities with elliptical cuts and treating exaggerated genre clichés with a straight face. The film crystallizes the contradictory tug between materialism and humility, anxiety and hope, and faith and distrust that defined the US consciousness in the early postwar years.