百年50部英文燒腦電影賞析:[31]Phone Booth 狙擊電話亭

Stu Shepard（Colin Farrell）is an arrogant and cocky married New York City publicist who has been seeing a woman named Pam（Katie Holmes）behind his wife Kelly's（Radha Mitchell）back. He uses the last remaining public phone booth in the city to contact Pam. During the call, he is interrupted by a pizza delivery man, who attempts to deliver a free pizza to him, but Stu turns him away. As soon as Stu completes his call to Pam, the phone rings. Stu answers, to find that the caller, who knows his name, warns him not to leave the booth, and says he will say hello to Pam for him. He also says he will call Kelly, leaving Stu panicked.
The caller tells Stu that he has tested two previous individuals who have done wrong deeds in a similar manner（one was a pedophile, the other was a company insider who cashed out his stock options before the share price collapsed）, giving each a chance to reveal the truth to those they wronged, but in both cases, neither agreed and were killed. To demonstrate the threat, the caller fires a silenced sniper rifle at a toy sold by a nearby vendor; the damage is unseen by anyone but Stu and the caller himself. The caller demands that Stu confess his infidelity to both Kelly and Pam to avoid being killed. The caller contacts Pam, and puts her on line with Stu, who reveals that he is married. The caller then hangs up, telling Stu to call Kelly himself. As Stu hesitates, the booth is approached by three prostitutes demanding to use the phone. Stu refuses to leave, having been warned by the caller not to make a public disturbance. Leon（John Enos III）, the prostitutes' pimp, joins his charges, and starts to smash the side of the booth. The caller offers Stu to kill Leon for him, and Stu agrees. Leon is shot and killed, causing a panic in the streets. Soon, police and newscrews arrive to cover the story.
Police Captain Ed Ramey（Forest Whitaker）, already suspecting Stu of being the killer, corners the streets with police roadblocks and starts trying to negotiate with him to leave the booth, but Stu rejects, telling the caller that there is no way they can incriminate him; the caller proves him wrong, pointing to a handgun that was planted in the roof of the phone booth. Both Kelly and Pam soon arrive on the scene. The caller demands Stu tell Kelly the truth, which he does. The caller then orders Stu to choose between Kelly and Pam, and the woman he does not choose will be killed.
While on the phone with the caller, Stu secretly uses his cell phone to call Kelly, allowing her to overhear his conversation with the caller. She, in turn, quietly informs Captain Ramey of this. Meanwhile, Stu continues to confess to everyone that his whole life is a lie, to make himself look more important than he really is. Stu's confession provides sufficient distraction to allow the police to trace the payphone call to a nearby building, and Ramey uses coded messages to inform Stu of this. Stu warns the caller that the police are on the way, and the caller replies that if he is caught, then he will kill Kelly. Panicked, Stu grabs the handgun and leaves the booth, screaming for the sniper to kill him instead of Kelly or Pam. The police fire upon Stu, while a smaller force breaks into the room that the caller was tracked to, only to find the gun and a man's corpse.
Stu regains consciousness to find the police only fired rubber bullets at him, stunning but not harming him. Stu and Kelly happily reunite. As the police bring down the body, Stu identifies it as the pizza delivery man from earlier. Stu gets medical treatment at a local ambulance; as he does, a man with a briefcase（Kiefer Sutherland）passes by and says that he regrets killing the pizza deliverer and warns Stu that if his newfound honesty does not last he will be hearing from him again. The man disappears into the crowd before Stu realizes he was the caller on the other end of the phone.
斯圖·謝帕德（柯林·法瑞爾飾）是一個傲慢自大的已婚的紐約經(jīng)紀人，他一直在背著他的妻子凱莉（拉達·米歇爾飾）見另一個叫做帕姆（凱蒂·霍姆斯飾）的女人。他用這個城市僅存的最后一個公用電話亭來聯(lián)系帕姆。在打電話過程中，他被一個送披薩的人打斷了，這個人試圖送給他一份免費的披薩，但是斯圖把他打發(fā)走了。在他剛結(jié)束和帕姆的通話后，電話又響起來了。斯圖接聽了電話，結(jié)果發(fā)現(xiàn)打電話的人知道他的名字，那個人警告他不要離開電話亭，并且說他會代替他向帕姆問好。同時他還說他會打電話給凱莉，斯圖很恐慌。

打電話的那個人告訴斯圖，他用同樣的方式考驗了前兩個做了錯事的人（其中一個是戀童癖，另一個是一個在股價暴跌之前將自己的股權(quán)套現(xiàn)的公司內(nèi)部人員），他給他們每個人一個機會去向被他們傷害過的人揭露真相，但是他們兩個人都不同意，結(jié)果他們都被殺了。為了證明他的威脅，打電話的人用消音狙擊步槍向附近的一個自動售貨機中的一個玩具開槍了。除了斯圖和打電話的那個人自己，沒有任何人看到。打電話的人要求斯圖向凱莉和帕姆坦白自己的不忠以避免被殺。打電話的人聯(lián)系了帕姆并且讓她和斯圖連線，斯圖告訴她，他已經(jīng)結(jié)婚了。打電話的人掛斷和帕姆的通話，然后要求斯圖自己告訴凱莉。

當斯圖正在猶豫的時候，電話亭周圍來了幾個妓女要求使用電話。由于打電話的人警告他不得產(chǎn)生公共干擾，斯圖拒絕離開。妓女的皮條客里昂（約翰·伊諾斯三世飾）也加入進來和他交涉，并且開始猛擊電話亭的側(cè)面。打電話的人提出為了斯圖殺掉里昂，斯圖同意了。里昂被開槍殺死了，在街道上引起一陣恐慌，警察和記者趕到現(xiàn)場來調(diào)查這件事。
警官愛德·雷米上尉（福里斯特·惠特克飾）懷疑斯圖是兇手，他設(shè)置路障以封鎖道路，并且開始嘗試與斯圖交涉使他離開電話亭，但是斯圖拒絕了，并且告訴打電話的人他們沒有辦法控告他。打電話的人證實他是錯的，指出在電話亭頂棚已安放好一把手槍。很快凱莉和帕姆都來到現(xiàn)場。打電話的人要求斯圖告訴凱莉真相，也就是他到底做了什么。然后，打電話的人要求斯圖在凱莉和帕姆之間做出選擇，他沒有選的那個女人會被殺掉。
在和打電話的人通話時，斯圖偷偷用自己的手機給凱莉打電話，讓她偷聽自己和打電話人的對話。然后，她再悄悄地告訴雷米隊長。同時，斯圖繼續(xù)向每個人坦白他自己的整個人生都是一個謊言，他讓自己看起來比實際上更重要。斯圖的懺悔充分轉(zhuǎn)移了打電話人的注意力，使得警察追蹤到打電話的人就在附近的一座建筑上，雷米用編碼消息將這些告知斯圖。斯圖警告打電話的人，警察很快就要到了，對方回復(fù)說如果他被抓了，他會殺死凱莉。驚慌之下，斯圖抓起手槍離開了電話亭，向狙擊者強烈要求殺死自己而不是凱莉或帕姆。警察對斯圖開槍，同時，一小部分兵力闖人被追蹤到的打電話者的房間，結(jié)果只發(fā)現(xiàn)了槍和一個男人的尸體。
斯圖恢復(fù)知覺之后發(fā)現(xiàn)，警察向他開槍用的子彈只是橡膠子彈，可以使他昏倒但是不會傷害他。斯圖和凱莉幸福地重聚。當警察將尸體帶下來的時候，斯圖認出是先前送披薩的人。斯圖在當?shù)氐木茸o車里面接受治療，正當這時候，有一個帶著公文包的人（基弗·薩瑟蘭飾）路過，并且告訴他，他后悔殺死了送披薩的人，并且警告斯圖如果他剛剛找回的誠實不持久的話，他會再聽到自己的聲音。在斯圖意識到這就是電話那端打電話的人之前，這個神秘的人就消失在人群中了。