由加籍印裔女导演迪帕．梅塔执导，曾获芝加哥国际影展奖。因内容表现在打破传统的 “性禁锢"方面，所以公映时竟触发狂潮，成为众矢之的，导演本人亦遭受恐吓。剧情介绍新德里一个年轻美貌姑娘嫁入中产店主家庭后，因丈夫沉缅于香港功夫，并迷恋于中国艳女而受到冷落。而不育的大嫂亦因丈夫参与 “灵修"倍感寂寞，两人同病相怜遂成闺中好友，并发展成床上鸳鸯。后来东窗事发，迫使两人离家出走。该片在印度来讲，内容较为惹火，但比起香港片，似乎仍显平谈，而且剧情颇为噱头，算不上佳作。不过对女性情欲描写极为细致，有一定的文艺剧情趣味。该片还入选香港 “印度多面睇"十大印度影片。
Ashok (Kulbhushan Kharbanda) runs a family business that sells takeout food and which also has a video rental store at the side. Ashok's extended family includes his wife Radha (Shabana Azmi), his brother Jatin (Javed Jaffrey), their ailing mother Biji (Kushal Rekhi) and their manservant Mundu (Ranjit Chowdhry), all living under the same roof. Jatin, at the insistence of Ashok and their mother, Biji, agrees to marry the beautiful Sita (Nandita Das) in an arranged marriage, although he is actually in love with Julie (Alice Poon), a Chinese-Indian. At first glance, you see a happy middle-class family going through the normal paces of everyday life. However, as the layers are slowly peeled back, we find a simmering cauldron of discontent within the family, with almost every family member living a lie. Both marriages in the family turn out to be emotionally empty, without love or passion. While Ashok is an ascetic who has taken a vow of celibacy, Jatin is a handsome ladies' man who is still openly seeing Julie even after his marriage to Sita. Ashok has pledged his total devotion to a religious holy man, a swami, in order to purge his life of worldly desires and temptations. Radha, bound by her sense of duty to her husband, agrees to go along with his wishes. As you can imagine, with both husbands ignoring their spouses' emotional and sexual needs (albeit with reasons that are totally opposite from each other), it is only a matter of time before Radha and Sita look to one another for comfort and to satisfy their own passions. In this environment, it is only natural that Sita and Radha become fast friends, and, in time, much more than that. But their love is not without its share of painful obstacles.
前面压抑了那么久，最后的那一下无声拥抱把所有情感都带出来了
你睡得好不好，天冷了是不是有厚衣服，怕你孤单，爱你胜过自己。不敢让自己靠的太近，只想知道你好不好，看看你现在的样子。
结尾俗了。生活真的能继续么？又或是回忆在不断轮回。
桑德拉布洛克演技太赞。这故事其实也无解，饶恕从来就是件很难的事情。
由于节奏缓慢，剧情过度无聊，看半小时就弃剧了
不喜欢事件真相揭露方式的处理，可以更高级一些的，犹豫了好久还是给了三星。
姐姐行使着母亲的责任，着实伟大，承受着生命不可承受之重
桑德拉除了些许皱纹，还是和以前一样…演技精湛！
不喜欢事件真相揭露方式的处理，可以更高级一些的，犹豫了好久还是给了三星。
人物动机无法自洽，既然花了二十年又无比执着地想走近现在妹妹的生活，兄弟复仇、出狱困境等支线有点隔靴搔痒。ps：桑德拉.布洛克演得真好。
一个被关20年刑满出狱的颓废女，社会关系完全断裂，被歧视被贴上once a cop killer, always a cop killer 标签。找工作不易，谈恋爱不易….更主要的是自己亲人不相认，受害人家属不放过等等。这部发生在西雅图的故事，果然色调阴郁，气氛压抑，而且因为情节不夸张，故事贴近现实生活，才愈发令人深思，对曾犯过错但已服刑赎罪的人，社会应如何包容接纳？
桑德拉的表演隐忍、沉重，背负了太多的责任和爱，这才是真正的投入角色，一个悲伤的故事，生活总要继续。
很多影评人抱怨剧情不合理，可是人家是改编自十年前的获奖英国迷你剧集啊。好吧，里面的好人（律师、鱼工）可能是太好了点，坏人（警察的儿子）确实是太坏了点；但前者并不影响主线剧情，后者则为了突出典型和增加张力，所以都还可以接受。本片最大的反转——女主是主动顶罪的——我也觉得逻辑通顺（妹妹五岁这个年龄非常关键），而且这更加深了“请给回头浪子再一次机会”和无私亲情的两大主题。真要挑毛病，我觉得西雅图中国城及亚裔的形象可以再光辉一些。
年内最佳！
法律是块冰铁，好人也受累。
女主冲着表演奖去的电影，不知道能否有所斩获
这样的电影 太痛苦 极其不适合在疫情时期观看 不不不不我看电影不是为了找虐的
自愧不如，甘拜下风！
虽然把我整破防了，虽然桑德拉演技炸裂，但不妨碍这破剧情看得我血压特别高！
这个节奏好棒啊，也可能是演技？就是所有情绪积累到最后一刻，虽然明明最后一幕也没有刻意煽情？但是你就哭开了。里面也看到很多原生家庭问题，虽然这么说好像找借口，但确实这种影响有时候可以摧毁一切
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