55 Steps2018

As Eleanor, Bonham Carter delivers a sweetly oddball performance playing a high-maintenance but fiercely determined grouch who is mostly impossible to like. Swank, for her part, is no picnic either: A former psychiatric nurse who discovered law later in life, her Colette is a largely charmless workaholic.

坦白说就电影本身来讲，实在太过中规中矩，真实事件改编+魅力主角性格+推动社会发展+感动寻常百姓，这样的组合这样的故事太多太多，优秀的作品也是数不胜数，这一部作为电影其实不那么出彩。但最终给它4星仅仅因为两个瞬间——一个是两个主角第一次见面分开后的晚上，Eleanor大费周折甚至让人觉得有些故弄玄虚般地大半夜用黄页打电话的目的只为了确认一下对方是否安全到家，另一个是Eleanor戛然而止的离开。很多巨大的令人动容的时刻反而都是那么的出人意料甚至措手不及，我们决定把自己的心交给某个人也通常因为一件微不足道的小事——没人会做ta却做了。与人为善与坚持正义有时会矛盾但最终殊途同归，律师到底应该以法为王还是更该敬畏人性则是见仁见智，但只有我们把自己当“人”看了，才会有彼此尊重的可能，进而让社会尊重每一个人。海伦娜，牛逼。

Scene by scene you wish 55 Steps made you angrier than it does. Yet August's docile filmmaking acts as an emotional soporific, removing even the potential camp pleasures of Bonham Carter's histrionics.