American psychologist John Holden arrives in London to participate in a symposium aiming to expose witchcraft and devil-worship as a fraud, with attention centered on a cult run by a Julian Karswell. Debarking his plane, Holden learns that the symposium leader, Henry Harrington, has suddenly died and he is now in charge. What only the audience knows is that Harrington was clearly killed by a demon, apparently summoned by Karswell to avenge his persecution. Despite both threatening and cajoling behavior by Karswell, Holden determines to proceed, though the only cult member willing to talk about his experiences is in a prison psychiatric ward, catatonic after allegedly killing yet another cult member. However, Harrington's niece, Joanna, believes, based on her uncle's notes, that Karswell may indeed have some satanic powers derived from an ancient tome in an obscure language which he has been able to translate, and attempts to warn the skeptic Holden. Karswell's mother also attempts to warn Holden off. However, the thing which begins to most get to Holden are the occasional, but mounting, sensory and mental disturbances he begins experiencing after an encounter with Karswell, and the discovery that, during this encounter, Karswell secretly slipped a slip of parchment with a curse in runic symbols on it into Holden's belongings, a parchment identical to one Harrington recorded having had passed to him in a similar manner shortly before his death... [N.B. Holden at no point stays at the Karswell estate].
理想和灯塔常有，但成为灯塔的理想不常有。民主和理性常有，但理性的民主不常有。体制和进步常有，但体制的进步不常有。
the world is watching
群像刻画，法庭交锋，雄浑稳健，精彩纷呈。不愧是律师之子，艾伦·索金重拾最擅长的法庭题材，比92版《好人寥寥》的冲击更甚，而且这回自编自导，不假他人之手，还原半个世纪前的时代风云对于今日美利坚犹有深意。且看颁奖季能否获青睐，得之老骥伏枥，不得也不会影响本片跻身其最佳作品行列。
本来就是场荒唐的审判，大篇幅的法庭戏一点也不枯燥，金句频出，很燃。对萨莎·拜伦·科恩刮目相看，Abbie这个人物和他很像，看似玩世不恭，却活得很清醒。
历史总是不停重演，抗议是个说不清的复杂话题
精彩紧凑，1.25倍速就会跟不上只能一秒一秒看的程度。差得那点是无处不在的价值观，不反感但很有压力，各种意义上的irony让我很崩溃，一边看一边OS i really dun know……一方面我感叹他们至少拥有这样滑天下之大稽的机会，另一方面我否认历史可完全复制。很难不流泪，但我想这激烈情绪来自矛盾和反省，而非the whole world is watching的从众心。电影只是表面故事，历史却如滔滔洪流，再做一万次选择，倚仗的也只有但求无愧于心而已。
历史总是会自动重演。但有些时候，没有目击者。
最后在法庭上读出阵亡军人名字的场面相当震撼，眼泪夺眶而出。
(The Mobe)
在这个时间点很难有什么东西让我对美国的未来重拾信心, 这部电影做到了.
囧瑟夫饰演的公诉人也站在控方立场表现出了最大的公正和敬意
Over dramatized, over political, over biased. The editing is not good either.
一场伟大的战斗，在抗议活动一线，更在法庭上，任何对文明社会有追求的公民都应该一看。
索金的剧本就不吹了，但他对于自己的剧本依然无法进行取舍，整部电影仍然是被剧本支配带着跑，铺陈满密集对白和庞大信息量的法庭辩论、会议演讲、示威游行以及纪录片段，没有给予片刻让观众停下来思考喘息，你知道它所批判所要表达的，但影片结束后并不会被感染不会被煽动不会去反思，这是电影技法和视听的失败不是剧本的。在看的时候一直会想要是大卫芬奇、贝尼特米勒或者原定的绿草或老斯来处理这个剧本会是什么样？
电影拍的很不错，几场法庭戏十分精彩，如果2020年10月之前看，我会热血沸腾，但全程围观了2020年底那场丑陋的选举回头再看，只能感叹那种公正，民主，正义的社会土壤已经变质，美国再也不是人人向往的世界灯塔。
The whole world is watching! 美国是属于好莱坞的！
索金的话唠电影，政治倾向鲜明，好莱坞标准产品，因为太标准，所以总是不错看的，剧本，剪辑，群戏，法庭戏都在合格标准以上，当科普也是不错的，政治宣言本身~~~咱啥都不懂，啥都不说。
囧瑟夫饰演的公诉人也站在控方立场表现出了最大的公正和敬意
今天下午大家一起看完之后，第一个反应就是“爽片”，怎么爽怎么拍，或者说，剪。真的是一场大型政治MV，就像片中所说的political trial一样。政治是所有事情的阻力，又如春药一般让一个时代蓬勃。我们讨论说，如果生活在那个时代，一定是很惨的，但站在当下的立场，我们愿意回看过去：因为现在从某种程度上讲，更惨。
而当记者提问的时候 嬉皮士的信念毫不嬉皮
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