One of the finest romantic films ever made (名副其实！), I Know Where I’m Going tells the story of Joan Webster (the great Dame Wendy Hiller), a middle-class English girl willing to do anything to move up in the world. As with Colonel Blimp, the film’s themes are specifically rooted in English identity—in this case, the British obsession with social class. When Joan is on her way to marry a wealthy industrialist on his private Scottish isle of Kiloran, a storm hits, trapping her on the Isle of Mull. There she meets a naval officer returning from the war (Livesey again), and an attraction forms between the two.
This may sound like it conforms to the traditional romantic-comedy cliches, but I Know Where I'm Going has a lot more on its mind than your average Meg Ryan movie. This is a serious picture, saturated with myth and superstition, and containing some of Michael Powell’s most inventive imagery, from tartan hills to a stovepipe hat that becomes an actual stovepipe. Filmed in black and white due to a wartime lack of color film stock, the movie features extraordinarily dark visuals, and uniquely relies on atmosphere—wind, rain, tempestuous seas—to convey states of mind. Parts of the film may seem quaint at first, but stick with it—this is one of the Archer’s very best movies, and a fine place for newcomers to start.
我的点评：名副其实的有史以来最出色爱情电影之一，也是两人比较好懂的影片之一。很幸运我最初由这一部以及《黑水仙》而不是《红菱艳》开始认识了Powell & Pressburger。Wendy Keller 不美，但很有个性，演技一流，十分符合人物的形象和设定。她还主演过 Pygmalion (《卖花女》，1938，co-starring Leslie Howard, 《飘》中的卫希礼)，和后来好莱坞的《窈窕淑女》一样也改编自肖伯纳的那个剧本，我更喜欢这个英国的版本。
The Criterion Collection DVD中的花絮，剖析了影片拍摄中的创新（包括如何以较小的成本别具巧思的创造不同寻常的视觉效果），也相当值得一看。
近年有一部片子叫《闰年》似乎有不少地方有这部片子的影子。
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