影片主角是一(✒)个78岁的(de )英(yīng )国著名(🌰)作家,他(🕟)身患重病却仍然酗酒(🔧)成性,口不择言。夜晚不时陷于噩梦的缠绕(rào )中,令(🎏)他想入(rù )非非,一边(biān )琢磨着他最(zuì )后(🎩)一部(bù )作品的情节构思,一边回忆着他的往事(🛺)。于是,噩梦、他的(🙁)想象加上(🚑)往事(shì )的回忆相互混淆在一(yī )起,共同构成(🥁)了他作品的故事(🖲)框架(❔)。 影片将文(🥎)学创(chuàng )作的过程跟(✋)幻想、愤怒等(🌞)融为一(yī )体,制造了一个(gè )精致的弗洛伊(yī )德哑谜。这是雷奈的第(dì )(🏯)一部(bù )用英语拍摄的(de )影片。剧本比较拗口(❕)罗嗦,有较重的(de )文(wén )学味(🚗),影片被(🈸)认为(🏻)是雷奈的(de )杰(👪)作,博加德的演出尤为精湛,但(🏒)一般观(guān )众可能会觉得单调乏(fá )味。 Clive Langham (Sir John Gielgud) spends one tormenting night in his bed suffering from health problems and thinking up a story based on his relatives. He is a bitter man and he shows, through flashbacks, how spiteful, conniving and treacherous his family is. But is this how they really are or is it his own vindictive slant on things