American psychologist John Holden arrives in London to participate in a symposium aiming to expose witchcraft and devil-worship as a fraud, with attention centered on a cult run by a Julian Karswell. Debarking his plane, Holden learns that the symposium leader, Henry Harrington, has suddenly died and he is now in charge. What only the audience knows is that Harrington was clearly killed by a demon, apparently summoned by Karswell to avenge his persecution. Despite both threatening and cajoling behavior by Karswell, Holden determines to proceed, though the only cult member willing to talk about his experiences is in a prison psychiatric ward, catatonic after allegedly killing yet another cult member. However, Harrington's niece, Joanna, believes, based on her uncle's notes, that Karswell may indeed have some satanic powers derived from an ancient tome in an obscure language which he has been able to translate, and attempts to warn the skeptic Holden. Karswell's mother also attempts to warn Holden off. However, the thing which begins to most get to Holden are the occasional, but mounting, sensory and mental disturbances he begins experiencing after an encounter with Karswell, and the discovery that, during this encounter, Karswell secretly slipped a slip of parchment with a curse in runic symbols on it into Holden's belongings, a parchment identical to one Harrington recorded having had passed to him in a similar manner shortly before his death... [N.B. Holden at no point stays at the Karswell estate].
配偶评价，桑德拉布洛克还挺适合这样的角色的，有点强硬但又不够强硬，关键是还有点蠢，科恩嫂就不合适了。
前期的情感与理性法律的冲突在得知妹妹才是枪杀警长的凶手之后，一切都土崩瓦解淡然无存了，情感瞬间充斥着每一个镜头，毕竟一个替妹妹扛罪的亲情故事人们可爱了。当一部电影的称赞都在演员身上时，说明这片不算好。
偏见无处不在，放哪都一样。桑姑终于不再是个“傻大姐”了。喜欢最后那一个拥抱
不过导演对于情绪的控制力还是可以的。
奈飞最新的垃圾，成年人给五岁小破孩顶罪你们也想得出来？！
一度想要放弃，反转后，我感觉一切情有可原了，
演技把我征服了，叙事符合逻辑。一个无意的错误，两个家庭的破坏，谁错了？谁在苦？电影有很强的悲悯之情，余味在心。
一个逻辑怪圈：为了呼吁观众对刑满释放人员的关注，给他们一个重新开始的机会，于是编剧调动一切手段合理化观众的共情：以迟来的真相将她从罪人反转为受害人，设置一位反派把她打造为英雄，彻底“洗白”了她的一身囚服。等于默认了罪人们活该被歧视、被踩踏、被隐形，哪怕他们接受了法律意义上规定的惩罚。 桑婆的表演没理由被无视。
直到最后才慢慢交代真相，虽然大致也可以猜到。细节刻画的很到位，每个人物都很有特色。回忆的色调是温暖的，这可能是Ruth生命中唯一的一抹亮色。结尾那个拥抱太让人伤感了…
生活碾压我们一次还嫌不够，还要持续性的，是嫌我们还不够苦逼吗？
“当你看到那些并非生来就享受你这般权益的人时，不妨考虑宽恕他们亦或是再给他们一次机会。”
这个节奏好棒啊，也可能是演技？就是所有情绪积累到最后一刻，虽然明明最后一幕也没有刻意煽情？但是你就哭开了。里面也看到很多原生家庭问题，虽然这么说好像找借口，但确实这种影响有时候可以摧毁一切
故事不算复杂，女主演的很好
为了妹妹健康成长，选择扛起罪行，背负一切。
理应可以处理得更好的故事，闪回，冲突与最终和解都处理得张力不够。对于生活如何重新开始如何继续向前，只是提出些非常浅层的表达。确实都为桑德拉的表演服务了，看似简单的丧其实表演层次感还是很强的，但还是被故事卸掉了不少劲儿，比起《美好的世界》后劲差很多。
桑婆的表演太让人心碎了，几次落泪都是因为她的演技。故事其实还挺狗血，前面因为一直穿插闪回的剪辑比较破碎，但后半段节奏找回来了。我喜欢这种美国底层人民的生活琐碎，有种夹缝中生存的救赎感。
Sandra Bullock演技真好，演出了服刑人员出狱后那种生活的窘迫和压抑，剧情一般，其他角色非常符号，结尾不错~3.5
桑德拉布洛克的演技的确到位，可惜全片铺垫太多，节奏有些平，最后的结局其实也能猜到，总体还算完整，值得推荐！
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