Lonely Hearts (2006)

In the late 1940's, Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez were America's notorious "Lonely Hearts Killers". Their lethal scam was simple; they would swindle and then viciously murder lovelorn war widows who would answer their personal ads in which Ray would describe himself as a sexy Latin Lover. Ironically, Ray's initial introduction to Martha was as a prospective mark. But when they met, it was love at first sight, perhaps as a result of their penchant for kinky sex and their mutual love for duplicity and easy money. With Martha posing as Ray's sister, they bilked elderly spinsters and widows of their savings and then viciously murdered them in a bloodbath of sexual frenzy. When they were arrested, Martha and Ray confessed to 12 killings, although it is believed the actual number is closer to 20. At their sensational trial, Martha and Ray cooed, held hands and seemed as though they could not get enough of each other. Their plea of not guilty by reason of insanity was rejected, and on August 22, 1949, the homicidal lovers were sentenced to death. After numerous appeals, they were electrocuted on March 8, 1951, side-by-side in Sing Sing prison.

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*Tagline: Love Kills.
*瘋狂的殺人故事,1970的The Honeymoon Killers就已描述過;當初一度由Martin Scorsese執導,可惜因為跟製作人的觀點不太搭軋,而退出~
*此片導演Todd Robinson現正進行一部大卡司的片子呢,有Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, Robert Duvall, Laurence Fishburne, Andy Garcia,片名為: The Last Full Measure...越戰後33年的故事,敬請期待~

The Departed (2006)

Years ago, a powerful Irish mafia figure placed a small selection of his youngest, brightest men into the Massachusetts Police Academy as cadets. Their purpose is to eventually rise within the prestigious ranks of the city's police department, to serve as the eyes and ears of their boss. While somewhere else, a young cadet was assigned with an equally dangerous task: infiltrate the Irish syndicate headed by the man sending in his own to the Boston Police. Now, one cadet is an up and coming police official with a torn allegiance to his job and to the criminal mastermind that put him there. While the other cadet is the trusted number two of that man, only finding his professional duties are becoming blurred with his current state. But new clues have lead to unfortunate discoveries, when both sides realize they're being watched by the enemy. It's now all just a matter of time before the men assigned to find out whose the infiltrator, could come to a bloody end when someone's identity may be revealed.

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*Tagline: Lies. Betrayal. Sacrifice. How far will you take it?
*無間道於2002年上映,所造成的轟動不用多說;隔沒多久,便傳出Brad Pitt所投資的Plan B Entertainment買下該版權,而且Brad Pitt將飾演"陳永仁","劉建明"則尚未決定;為此,自己當起了導演,連標語都想好了:繼Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994),十年後,Brad Pitt再度與Tom Cruise合作...演出洋版的無間道,這樣的卡司讓我超期待;Brad Pitt痞痞+屌屌的形象,演起梁朝偉是再恰當不過;Tom Cruise長久的螢幕英雄,更是正義化身~
*只是不知道何時變成了Leonardo DiCaprio和Matt Damon...不過,仔細想一想,這個組合也真是一時之選呢!實在想不出有更好的配對~

The Prestige (2006)

A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy -- full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences. From the time that they first met as young magicians on the rise, Robert Angier and Alfred Borden were competitors. However, their friendly competition evolves into a bitter rivalry making them fierce enemies-for-life and consequently jeopardizing the lives of everyone around them. Set against the backdrop of turn-of-the-century London.

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*Tagline: A Friendship, That Became a Rivalry...A Rivalry, That Became a Battle.
*1995年出版的小說,十年後拍成電影...作家是英國的Christopher Priest;小說的出發點是Alfred Borden和Robert Angier的曾孫,藉由2位曾祖父各自留下的日記本,一窺當時的激烈對戰~
*小說和電影不同之處,就在於結局吧,小說裡的2個Alfred Borden去世後,複製出來的Angier才去找原版的Angier,兩個人合力將Borden的日記出版(當然刪掉了雙胞胎的祕密囉);之後,逆向操作機器,將2個Angier,又變回1個~
*Cutter: Every great magic trick consists of three acts. The first act is called "The Pledge"; The magician shows you something ordinary, but of course... it probably isn't. The second act is called "The Turn"; The magician makes his ordinary some thing do something extraordinary. Now if you're looking for the secret... you won't find it, that's why there's a third act called, "The Prestige"; this is the part with the twists and turns, where lives hang in the balance, and you see something shocking you've never seen before.
*abracadabra: exclamation said by someone who is performing a magic trick, in order to help them perform it successfully 翻成天靈靈地靈靈,真貼切~
*很有娛樂性的片子,想了半天才知道那個神祕的盒子是具有複製功能=.=跟那個時代的背景根本不合嘛~
*對於魔術,我覺得靜靜的欣賞就很舒服了,巴不得想知道訣竅,就失去箇中樂趣了~

Saw I, II, III (2003, 2004, 2005)

Two men wake up at opposite sides of a dirty, disused bathroom, chained by their ankles to pipes. Between them lies a dead man loosely clutching a hand-held tape player and a handgun. Each finds a tape the perfect fit for the player in their back pocket. They play the tapes. One is threatened, the other isn't. But they have a task: One must kill the other by 6:00, or his wife and daughter will die. They find hacksaws in a toilet, and try to cut the chains, but it doesn't work. They are the two newest victims of the Jigsaw Killer. In a flashback, we learn of Amanda, a girl who falls victim to the Jigsaw Killer. On her head is a mask, which is hooked into her lower jaw. There is a timer on it. Only one key will unlock it, and that key is in the digestive tract of her cell mate who lies paralyzed on the opposite side of the room. If she doesn't unlock the mask in time, her lower jaw will be ripped wide open. She survives, but her cell mate doesn't. Through a series of flashbacks, we learn of more victims, and of the nearly-successful capture of the Jigsaw Killer, who doesn't actually kill his victims. Instead, he finds ways to make them kill either themselves, or each other, and he thinks the entire 'game' out perfectly, with no other ways out. Or so it would seem.

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*第一,二集的噁心程度還好,加上故事的懸疑程度足以彌補噁心的部份,讓我擁有忍耐往下看的力量,只是到了第三集,噁心大爆發,實在看不下去...