New York private detective Duncan "Mac" MacLain is blind but has keenly developed all his other senses. He pursues his work assisted by his faithful guide dog Friday, his butler, Alistair, and his assistant, Marty. Retired actress Norma Lawry, an old friend, comes to Mac seeking advice. Her headstrong 17-year-old step-daughter Barbara, herself a promising actress, is enamored with her leading man in a small theater production, the much older Lothario Paul Gerente. Paul, who had once been Norma's lover, has convinced Barbara that Norma actually wants Paul for herself and has only married her father Stephen for his money. At Mac's urging, Norma tried to reason with Paul, but he insists that he loves Barbara and laughs her off. Barbara is equally disdainful of her and agrees to meet Paul for dinner that night at his apartment.
Norma's husband Stephen Lawry is a scientist leaving that night on a trip to test a secret invention on which he has been working for the government and the war effort. Worried about Barbara, she uses a pretext not to accompany Stephen and goes to the apartment. When Barbara arrives, she finds Paul's dead body and thinks that Norma has killed him, even though Norma insists that he was dead when she arrived. Barbara threatens to call the police unless she leaves Stephen. Fearing that a scandal will hurt him, Norma agrees. Norma then turns to Mac, who goes to Paul's apartment with Friday and Marty, only to find the body and the rug under it missing. A man arrives to replace the rug and Mac hides in a closet, overhearing a telephone call to Norma's number from "Gabriel" to "Vera." Mac accidentally gives himself away, but with Friday's help overpowers Gabriel, who refuses to talk. Mac has Marty hide him to keep him under wraps.
Norma returns to her country home unexpectedly, which discourages an espionage ring that includes her butler, Hansen, from breaking into Stephen's safe and stealing his plans. They have killed Gerente, who was also an agent, and hidden the body. Mac arrives with Friday at Norma's house and pretends to be her curmudgeonly "Uncle Mac" who has come for a visit. His blindness lulls any suspicions Hansen might have about him. Shortly thereafter, Barbara comes home from an "emergency rehearsal", called to get her out of the house by her director, Cheli Scott, who inveigles an invitation to spend the night at the Lawry home. Unknown to Barbara and Norma, Cheli is the ringleader of the spies. Cheli ordered Paul killed because his affection for Barbara was beginning to limit his effectiveness, and she immediately suspects Mac is not what he seems.
Gabriel's wife Vera, the Lawrys' maid, is also a part of the plot. When Gabriel does not return home, Vera becomes hysterical with worry. Mac secretly asks Vera to meet him in the greenhouse, using her worry about Gabriel as a lure. She is observed by the others, however, and is killed by Hansen before she can reach Mac. The spies cut the house's telephone wires so that Mac and Norma cannot call the police, and Cheli has Mac locked up under guard. Using his blindness as a distraction, Mac overpowers his guard and releases Friday out a window with instructions to "go home and get Marty." Stephen arrives home and Cheli threatens his family if he does not give her the final step in creating his invention, which was not in the safe. Barbara finally realizes how much Norma actually cares for her. Mac tries to stall for time, but is locked in the cellar. When Hansen goes to kill him, Mac has broken the light bulb and his advantage of total darkness helps him overcome the spy. Marty and Friday return with the police. When Friday is spotted by a lookout, Mac overpowers him and is saved from being shot by another lookout by Friday. After the spies are captured, Stephen and Norma are off to Washington, D.C., with Barbara remaining behind to care for her new "Uncle Mac."
2021.10.20@长风大悦城。大清早不睡觉阿猫阿狗吵什么吵，又一部在重庆的片子，哪里都是湿漉漉的，潮潮的。其实反反复复更多的是同一个场景，像一场密室里的大逃杀。螺旋重映的赶脚。其实难在几个演员的对手戏和反复演绎。空旷的影厅里和小夏的一场秋日dating。
多线性叙事的故事还算完整，但不高级，细节经不起推敲，槽点较多
中式幽默，窦骁的人物力度展现的淋漓精致，好歹也是电影学院毕业的，他适合演坏人！！所以，人往往不要相信眼睛看到的。
点映场。又是一个借多线叙事手法，把普通的故事搞悬疑搞复杂。演技在线，编剧差点意思。
对一部戏剧结构都不完整的主旋律，我们有着极大的市场宽容。
分线很多，剧情其实一般，拍的挺吸引人的。和小易一起看的，还有其他同事，贼刺激
坏人也分两种，一种是迫不得已，一种是深入骨髓。
和狗狗一起躺在床上看完。今天是勤劳的一天，把屋子收拾了一遍，然后一天就过了。晚上去路口接了二姐，她带了周黑鸭回来，一起吃了两盒。晚上突然降温，明日就是小雪了。节气这东西，可真准。
如果说艺术创作真的需要宽容的话，私以为那就是现在了
看得出导演受昆汀影响挺大，不过倘若在叙事方式上直接借用章回体分段叙事，效果会更好，现在呈现出来的叙事效果就像是一部电影被倒放了四次。
我可以理解本片是想要用所罗门式的叙述，层层剥茧，但剧情实在是过于单调与繁复，小品式的表演增加了一些趣味和笑点，但总体水平一般
朱珠这张脸是因为《叛逆者》才记住的。
彪叔像一根定海神针，牢牢的稳着整体节奏，这种角色感觉都不需要使劲就比张颂文的“刻意”来的更有功力了，从演技上窦骁绝对要感谢老爷子带得好，所有演员在这种黑色幽默的彪叔营造的调性下，都特别合适，没什么太大的问题
独幕剧形式的小成本喜剧，不断跳切反转的人物关系与剧情走向看得人眼花缭乱，给人一种人物跟着编剧笔尖走的感觉，立不住。
点映场。这么平庸是怎么被吹成低配疯狂的石头的，窦骁的演技这么多年了一点进步都没有的吗？！
为了看B站上导演的拉片，去了电影院，很惊喜。
只能说人贩子真的是罪不容赦的，有时候真的无法想象贩卖妇女儿童的犯罪行为，那样的人还算是人类吗？
层层剥茧，但其实剧情还是不太行，看的人有点累。范伟老师不卖拐了之后真的好厉害啊！
有些俗套，但是这就像看人一样，确实不应该偏听偏信。
开始以为是个人性实验小品，看到后面又像个剧本杀，国产这类故事的通病是痕迹过重、巧合太多，都没有摆脱疯狂的石头的影子。
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