该片根据Max Porter的小说《Grief is the Thing With Feathers》改编,讲述了一位父亲和他的两个年幼的儿子如何面对妻子和母亲的突然死亡,在试图重建生活的过程中,遭遇了一些神秘的事情。
故事发生在1990年,美国一名汽车修理工约翰·格雷(大卫·丹席克 David Dencik 饰)因涉嫌猥亵自己的女儿安吉拉(艾玛·沃森 Emma Watson 饰)而遭到逮捕。负责调查此案的警官布鲁斯·肯纳(伊桑·霍克 Ethan Hawke 饰)对约翰展开问询,而在这一过程中约翰起先承认罪行,随后又突然失忆。为了应对这一突发状况,心理学教授肯尼斯·睿恩斯博士(大卫·休里斯 David Thewlis 饰)也介入调查之中。他们发现,约翰信奉崇拜魔鬼撒旦的黑宗教,甚至布鲁斯的搭档都有可能参与其中。布鲁斯和肯尼斯想方设法要打开嫌疑人和受害者的记忆闸门,让他们想起最不堪回首的一段往事…… 本片根据真实事件改编。
The main character is Dr. Max Holst, a successful neurosurgeon. One day an intense little man named Steinmetz shows up, who has the real ability to create objects out of thin air, using only his mind. As no one believes him at first, he is held at a ward for mental patients, but manifests the key to his door and escapes. As he has a special interest in Dr. Holst, Steinmetz subsequently invites Holst to his large mansion, which is full of expensive paintings and sculptures, and proves to him that he can in fact materialise objects. Steinmetz’s abilities are evolving by leaps and bounds, and is progressing from being able to create objects only to being able to create living things. His ultimate ambition is to be able to create a human being. He tells Dr. Holst that if he will only perform a certain brain operation on him, Steinmetz will become able to attain his goal. He’s got all the necessary equipment set up in his basement. Dr. Holst, however, is too spooked by the whole thing to agree to this mad scheme, and refuses. Steinmetz then sets about manipulating Holst’s life, to pressure him into performing the operation. By then Steinmetz has become able to create a temporary human being, and in the hope that he can perhaps make his own creation perform the operation, he manifests a doppelganger of Dr. Holst. This double proceeds to take over Dr. Holst’s life, creating chaos for him professionally and personally. And then Dr. Holst starts fighting back. The ending has the dual virtue of being both unexpected and satisfying.
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远古时期,某国太子,受到指引,走入一处神秘山洞。洞中有位隐居的老者,告诉太子,他一生中会遇到两位女知音,一位像太阳,一位像月亮。太子闻听此言,内心警惕。他认为当下,他在朝中,正处于危局。他的母亲刚刚被害死,朝中没有人听他号令。他根本无心考虑是否有什么女知音,更没有心情浪漫。太子走出山洞之后,遂遇一迷人女子,这女子表示,她曾在元宵灯会上见过太子,她非他不嫁。太子拒绝了这位女子的求爱,他却不知,这位女子,乃是宰相的女儿。另一边王叔向太子冥河介绍了一位美女。这位美女叫做月凝妆。其实,这位美女,是王叔派来的奸细,王叔打算用这位女子,控制太子。最终太子以正义战胜了邪恶,两个女人都走向了她们自己的归宿。