This film is based on Henry James' novel "The Screws Are Tightening". At the end of the 19th century, the beautiful teacher Miss Giddens (played by Deborah Kerr) came to the country estate to take care of her employer’s niece Flora (played by Pamela Franklin) and her nephew Myers (played by Pamela Franklin) Martin Stephens (played by Martin Stephens). Soon, Miss Giddens found that she often saw strange images, as if the house was entangled by ghosts, and the children were also possessed by the devil, saying or making overly mature and strange words or actions. Mrs. Gross (Megs Jenkins), the housekeeper, revealed to her that all this may be related to the underground romance of the late former tutor and general manager. Miss Giddens desperately tried to rescue the children from the control of the devil, but is it possible that the ghosts she saw were just her own hallucinations?
The Innocents movie plot
2022-01-12 08:01
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Luther 2022-01-12 08:01:29
#重看# The contrast between black and white light and shadow is strong, the deep focus lens is beautiful, the atmosphere is first-rate, and the fear is floating in the dark ancient house in the dark night. The scary technique is quite advanced; uphold the fine psychological description in Henry James's original work, and carry forward the British style Gothic style, exquisite shadow, elegant chill; open ending, deliberately ambiguous context, no one is innocent, staring into the abyss will be looked back.
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Christelle 2022-04-20 09:02:11
It seems that "Innocent People" is actually the operator of this "Rules of the Game". As a classic play structure, the "newcomer interview", which usually shines in horror works, is displayed to the greatest extent in the first half of the film. But from the perspective of "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo", its second half is too long-winded. The latter proves that this cross-century haunted house can be free from any scary elements: the angel-faced child and the kind-hearted old man make the intruder feel comfortable and comfortable, and the director can completely let the curious heroine here. A seemingly innocuous atmosphere descends into terror step by step. We have long known that the mother-like tutor is not a challenger in this dark system, but a guinea pig manipulated by the system. She only shared a little temporary and limited power from the power holder. For this reason, the "man" she saw through the refraction of history is not an illusion, but a future that has not yet been concretely unfolded through time: a girl His voice is a nursery rhyme that is not trusted from beginning to end, and the boy who grows taller and falls in love with this castle is the next successor of power.
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Mrs. Grose: [referring to Peter Quint and Miss Jessel's abusive relationship] A person ought to keep quiet about it.
Miss Giddens: You must tell me.
Mrs. Grose: Oh, miss, there's things I've seen I... I'm ashamed to say.
Miss Giddens: Go on.
Mrs. Grose: Rooms... used by daylight... as though they were dark woods.
Miss Giddens: They didn't care that you saw them? And the children?
Mrs. Grose: I can't say, miss. I... I don't know what the children saw. But they used to follow Quint and Miss Jessel, trailing along behind, hand in hand, whispering. There was too much whispering in this house, miss.
Miss Giddens: Oh, yes, I can imagine. Yes, I can imagine what sort of things they whispered about. Quint, Miles. I can hear them together.
Mrs. Grose: But there was nothing wrong in Master Miles wanting to be with Quint. Quint taught him to ride and took him walking. The poor lad needed someone to...
Miss Giddens: To corrupt him?
Mrs. Grose: But Master Miles is a good boy, miss. There's nothing wicked in him.
Miss Giddens: Unless he's deceiving us. Unless they're both deceiving us. The innocents.
Mrs. Grose: Innocents they are, miss. It's not fair. You have no right to accuse them of...
Miss Giddens: Oh, forgive me, Mrs. Grose. I'm not accusing. I'm just trying to put it together, to understand. Tell me, were the children happy?
Mrs. Grose: Oh, they seemed to be. The same as now. But sometimes I used to wonder if they really cared for them, those two... or if they weren't just using them.
Miss Giddens: Using them?
Mrs. Grose: Yes, of course they were... and still are.
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The Uncle: Miss Giddens, may I ask you a somewhat personal question? Do you have an imagination?
Miss Giddens: Oh!
[chuckles]
Miss Giddens: Oh, yes, I can answer that. Yes.
The Uncle: Good. Truth is very seldom understood by any but imaginative persons... and I want to be quite truthful.