窗里的女人

很早的时候就开始期待了，就先买了原著。但原著实在是看得令人乏味，就没看完。真的好想看这部电影，给我憋得。然后网上资源一出来我就看了，真的一点没让我失望，因为我就喜欢这种类型的电影——有深度的、有内涵的悬疑惊悚，不喜欢的人总能挑出毛病。它的节奏一点没拖沓，反转两次让人惊喜。反正我是很满意，等这么久没白等。

不推荐观看。---电影最让人尴尬的场景，是女主看到凶案报警出门晕倒后警察和邻居一家聚集在她家里那场戏。

电影最让人反感的角色是那个女警探。

电影最令人讨厌是歇斯底里情绪大爆发--邻居对她大喊大叫、戴维对她大喊大叫、她对人大喊大叫这些--要知道，人物塑造靠演技靠台词靠拿捏，不是靠大喊大叫的所谓歇斯底里激烈冲突。

再有:导演故弄玄虚的让女主在床下伸手差点够不到掉落的手机那段一点用没有。

再有车祸后观众已经知道她家人遭遇，她进到车里那段纯属画蛇添足。

一个不称职母亲害死了自己的人孩子和老公，无法面对现实，终日躲在家里不敢出门。直到她遇到了另一位不称职的操蛋母亲目睹了她被杀，在一系列的怀疑和自我否定后，终于找到真相且手刃凶手。然后…..她心灵救赎了？她痊愈了……没看懂这逻辑？但是片子拍的不错，挺好看的。（虽然反转的都在意料之中吧）演员阵容挺强大。艾米的演技没话说！

Look what the Academy has done to Amy Adams, following a hot streak of 6 nominations without a win, she is on her way to be Glenn Close no. 2, now she is stuck with a role doesn’t merit her talent in her long-delayed star vehicle, an adaptation of A.J. Finn’s top-selling whodunit novel, THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW, which on paper, is so out of touch with our times, a career woman who two-times her husband and then brings ruination to him and their young daughter, therewith she is stricken by agoraphobia, vegetating in her spacious Manhattan brownstone, she yields to medication, tipples and hallucinations, until one horrible accident (a woman’s death) jolts her into questioning her sanity, and finally, she can strike out like nothing ever happens (after two life-claiming occurrences), the whole shebang is passé, and reeks of whore-shaming sexism.

Once a buzzy project may finally nab Adams the holy grail, the film is dead on arrival after the reshoots (alleged due to the negative feedback from test screenings) and multiple re-schedule of its release, but swimming against the tide, Yours Truly is not going to trash it, not least because Adams shores up the pulpy material with her full-bodied submersion into her ill-devised character, her heartfelt effusion is priceless, and one just cannot get enough of the tangible female bond between her and Moore, who has to mince her words carefully as the pivotal role of a victim with a flair of mystique. Then a hectoring Gary Oldman doesn’t know how to dial down, as a red herring, he needs to refrain from acting the obviousness.

Set up as a single-location thriller, patterning over Hitchcock’s REAR WINDOW (1954), the film asks our housebound heroine Anna Fox (Adams), a child psychiatrist, to play amateur sleuth, after she chances upon witnessing a murder across the street. For one thing, director Joe Wright (whose career is on a slippery slope) maxes out the limited spatiality to pleasingly chromatic effects, the whole movie boasts a sleek sheen which dazzles while the plot either meanders or skitters, and informs you where its money is spent (other than the paycheck for its stellar cast). Oddly, the ambience is ambivalent, the murderous intention or act has no threatening air, as if what you are watching is a prestige drama of a woman fighting for her sanity, and the reveal of the killer is hurried and he is such a featherweight menace to cow even a beaten woman like Anna, and the rickety rooftop has already suggested his slipshod downfall.

Still, THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW is meritless of the broadside, it makes a good fist the novel’s twisty appeal and Adams is faultless for her portrayal, like Tate Taylor’s THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN (2016), it is conceived as a potboiler to build its star’s momentum and cash in box office receipts, but now, after losing that precious window of opportunity, it is an easy mark for dog pile and regrettably this is the new norm.

referential entries: Tate Taylor’s THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN (2016, 6.6/10); Alfred Hitchcock’s REAR WINDOW (1954, 8.4/10); Joe Wright’s HANNA (2011, 6.5/10).

Title: The Woman in the Window

Year: 2021

Country: USA

Language: English

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Director: Joe Wright

Screenwriter: Tracy Letts

based on the novel by A.J. Finn

Music: Danny Elfman

Cinematography: Bruno Delbonnel

Editing: Valerio Bonelli

Cast:

Amy Adams

Fred Hechinger

Gary Oldman

Brian Tyree Henry

Julianne Moore

Wyatt Russell

Anthony Mackie

Jennifer Jason Leigh

Jeanine Serralles

Tracy Letts

Mariah Bozeman

Rating: 6.4/10

窗里的女人

近期看了AA的新作Woman in the Window，中规中矩，没有很惊艳的惊悚片，剧情是硬伤，没拍出原著那种悬疑感，氛围没有很突出，但演技自然没得说，还有加里奥德曼，朱利安摩尔大配角助阵，虽然很想AA拿一次奥斯卡，就是缺一部封后之作～～希望能看到AA更多的好作品，运气降临一次吧！

2星，画面挺精致的，但场景不大没啥变化。女主飙演技太多，感觉神神叨叨，有点影响观感。前面一大堆要素，悬疑，幻觉，精神损伤，丧夫之疼，失去信任等等强行营造悬念。但最后简简单单把一切案情推给了一个孩子，等于前面的很多铺垫都成了废话。还让变态杀人狂小孩，自己解释一番自己的行为来给女主听，又是长话连篇的老套段子，然后孩子没打过女主，影片完，就这。。。。。。