The main story is set in a British Military Intelligence Office in Whitehall during 1956, where a small group of foreign affairs analysts find their quiet existence disrupted by the Suez Crisis. Ewan McGregor plays Mick Hopper, who is doing his national service as an interpreter of Russian documents. Bored with his job, Hopper spends his days creating fantasy daydreams that involve his work colleagues breaking into contemporary hit songs. Louise Germaine plays Sylvia Berry, the blonde wife of the violent Corporal Pete Berry (Douglas Henshall). Sylvia is an object of desire for Mick's fellow clerk Private Francis Francis and a middle-aged pipe-organist named Harold Atterbow (Roy Hudd). Unlike the street-wise Hopper, Francis is a clumsy Welsh intellectual whose academic career has been interrupted by his army call up. The appearance of the bookish niece of a seconded American officer enables the two conscripts to pair off with suitable partners, after initial mismatching. Some of the side themes include the influence of American rock and roll on English society, the gulf between the senior analysts, who are regular army officers, and the conscripted other ranks, the work of Russian playwright Chekhov, and the appreciation of opulent theatre pipe organs. The unusual context — a military culture transplanted into a civil service style office environment — reflects Potter's own national service during the 1950s. While this piece has the form of a romantic comedy, unlike the less conventional works of Dennis Potter's middle period, it is not without graphic sex and violence, as well as Potter's characteristic flashes of dreamlike imagery. The centrepiece of this production is the surreal musical sequence set to the song In a Persian Market.
汉克斯演技自不必说，狗狗是个惊喜，把对机器人的嫌弃演得活灵活现。
末世危机，生老病死，对人类是如此残酷；人类的人情世故，不忍心让一个机器去理解和感受；杰夫面无表情，我们却感受到了ta的喜怒哀乐。
末世公路片这个题材都开始了...公路片行走的哲思为内核，我竟然被两个机器人感动到了呜呜呜...白西装白礼帽的老头永远是绅士帅气的呀..阳光下的遮阳伞这一幕，美好的东西竟然让人如此难过😫真是让人鼻酸的故事...
是否再快一点 就能抵达那座桥？maybe not，live a little，human。
性别歧视、种族歧视、贫富差距、司法腐败、教育制度、媒体操控、政治阴谋……随便拎出一个话题都够国产电影拍几十部了，结果人家印度一部电影把这些话题全拍了，为印度编剧还活着鼓掌👏
格局有了，魅力不够。坑挖的好但填的时候感觉力不从心。
用了这么长的时长还讲不好故事不是烂片是什么？豆瓣对印度片真是一贯的宽容，只要题材好，拍成什么烂样子都要捧上天，问就是别人敢拍，那直接看新闻不好？
一部电影包含3种触发泪点的元素：狗、机器人和将死之人。三者都很脆弱，其中一方受到伤害都会引发共情。小机器人没了令人心碎，演到最后简直提心吊胆，怕出现什么岔子。再说一次：汉克斯出演的角色真的都是遭罪的命啊！
我们对它呈现出的“尖锐”的赞美仅仅来自于我们遭受的审核制度。
泪奔……好片！没有个人英雄主义，只有一个垂暮老人、一条狗、一个有感情会做梦的机器人。
这是一个13亿人都在追寻的真相。
当你以为印度电影只有歌舞的时候，别人已经超越了几个码头，从悬疑到探案到社会的探索思考，印度和韩国的社会类电影总会捉住人性和社会的痛点，直击要害，我相信电影的力量可以无穷大。
“这就是政治。为了赢，我会玩任何肮脏的游戏，政治家最大的武器知道是什么吗？情感!公众的情感!是疯狂，他们的思想，智慧还有决策都会被这种疯狂推翻。当他们因为这种情绪而忘记一切的时候，我们就能实现统治!”
印度现实主义题材影片在题材震撼程度方面是越来越高，剧情叙述方面也更加庞杂，竟玩起了多重反转。美中不足是在影像语言和风格探索上始终原地踏步，甚至有些退步，不像韩影那样成熟多样。
如果纯从电影的叙事角度考虑，电影整体太过于沉闷，拖沓，叙事感比较差，得耐着性子来看，最好看的就是庭审部分。
不要随便相信媒体的言论 普通人不要做被煽动的工具
2022.7.3
这些年不知出于什么目的不断神话印度电影的媒体真的应该歇歇了。
慢动作煽乐毫无节制，素材不断做加法，
世界上每一个角落都存在这种肮脏腐朽的不堪，但是敢于呈现在镜头之下，这本身就是一种文化自信和政治自信。
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