抗日战争时期，两立一个青年女子由于追求物质享受而堕入敌特组织，两立干了一系列特务勾当。最后，当她在临难不屈的共产党员的精神感召下，有所觉悟时，却被敌人杀死。影片根据茅盾同名小说改编。在40年代后期，影片编导曾计划把作家茅盾这一创作于40年代初并在当时产生广泛影响的作品搬上银幕，因政治环境不允许未能实现。上海解放后，文华影业公司将其列为重点剧目投入摄制。影片对女主人公赵惠明的处理，创作者曾经过认真考虑。赵惠明是特务，又是失足者。她是个思想性格复杂、内心冲突激烈的人物。影片于1950年冬上映，受到观众欢迎。不久报刊有文章提出影片对赵惠明“过于同情”的批评，认为与当时正在开展的镇压反革命运动方针政策不相吻合。影片即不予放映。
陈占美
回复 :骨灰盒推销员小康（李康生）结束心力交瘁的一日后，悄悄潜入一幢公寓里的一间房，没想这间房里，还会潜入一个会是其欲望（投射）对象的地摊小贩（陈昭荣）。房子的暂时主人是一个售楼小姐（杨贵媚），她和小康性向虽然有异，却同样是没有爱情（情感）温暖心灵的人。小康和地摊小贩一开始时时提防（售楼小姐和彼此），待他们认识了解到各自的生活后，提防心理消除，却也没有自此成为朋友（懦弱的小康也鼓不起勇气示爱）。售楼小姐和地摊小贩发生过几次性关系，清楚地明白彼此都是为了满足身体的长久饥渴，爱情（感情）并没有什么万岁之处，身体上的快感可以暂时满足，精神上的安慰却无法获得（即使有，也是短暂如烟花）。
林宜融
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钟汉良
回复 :It has been said that most great twentieth century novels include scenes in a hotel, a symptom of the vast uprooting that has occurred in the last century: James Ivory begins Quartet with a montage of the hotels of Montparnasse, a quiet prelude before our introduction to the violently lost souls who inhabit them.Adapted from the 1928 autobiographical novel by Jean Rhys, Quartet is the story of a love quadrangle between a complicated young West Indian woman named Marya (played by Isabelle Adjani), her husband Stefan (Anthony Higgins), a manipulative English art patron named Heidler (Alan Bates), and his painter wife Lois (Maggie Smith). The film is set in the Golden Age of Paris, Hemingway's "moveable feast" of cafe culture and extravagant nightlife, glitter and literati: yet underneath is the outline of something sinister beneath the polished brasses and brasseries.When Marya's husband is put in a Paris prison on charges of selling stolen art works, she is left indigent and is taken in by Heidler and his wife: the predatory Englishman (whose character Rhys bases on the novelist Ford Madox Ford) is quick to take advantage of the new living arrangement, and Marya finds herself in a stranglehold between husband and wife. Lovers alternately gravitate toward and are repelled by each other, now professing their love, now confessing their brutal indifference -- all the while keeping up appearances. The film explores the vast territory between the "nice" and the "good," between outward refinement and inner darkness: after one violent episode, Lois asks Marya not to speak of it to the Paris crowd. "Is that all you're worried about?" demands an outraged Marya. "Yes," Lois replies with icy candor, "as a matter of fact."Adjani won the Best Actress award at Cannes for her performances in Quartet: her Marya is a volatile compound of French schoolgirl and scorned mistress, veering between tremulous joy and hysterical outburst. Smith shines in one of her most memorable roles: she imbues Lois with a Katherine-of-Aragon impotent rage, as humiliated as she is powerless in the face of her husband's choices. Her interactions with Bates are scenes from a marriage that has moved from disillusionment to pale acceptance.Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and James Ivory's screenplay uses Rhys's novel as a foundation from which it constructs a world that is both true to the novel and distinctive in its own right, painting a society that has lost its inhibitions and inadvertently lost its soul. We are taken to mirrored cafes, then move through the looking glass: Marya, in one scene, is offered a job as a model and then finds herself in a sadomasochistic pornographer's studio. The film, as photographed by Pierre Lhomme, creates thoroughly cinematic moments that Rhy's novel could not have attempted: in one of the Ivory's most memorable scenes, a black American chanteuse (extraordinarily played by Armelia McQueen) entertains Parisian patrons with a big and brassy jazz song, neither subtle nor elegant. Ivory keeps the camera on the singer's act: there is something in her unguarded smile that makes the danger beneath Montparnasse manners seem more acute.
