黑盒
发表于8分钟前回复 :野心勃勃的年轻商人塞吉欧(里卡多史卡马西奥 饰),常以金钱美色贿赂政客名流,成功称霸商场。为求更上层楼,塞吉欧决定进入政坛,他得先趋炎附势、再趁机窜出揽权,放眼政坛只有一人握有至高无上的权力,那正是掌握政权长达20年、私生活极其放荡的前总理贝卢斯科尼(托尼瑟维洛 饰)。年轻的人,不惜浪掷青春,追求名声与金钱。为吸引贝卢斯科尼的注意,塞吉欧刻意租下位在他家对面的高级豪宅,更找来性感火辣女孩夜夜狂欢,展开纸醉金迷的豪奢攻势,终于吸引到贝卢斯科尼的注意。但当他成功闯进嚮往已久的上流世界,才惊觉这位政治狂人早已大权旁落…。年迈的人,甘愿耗尽金钱,找回权力与青春。亟欲重掌政权的贝卢斯科尼,每天邀请无数贵族与名流登堂狂欢。他在奢华别墅的派对,更永无止尽地提供女孩与药物,上演著一场场酒池肉林的慾望人生。就在他成功说服政敌,眼看重掌政权在望,却发现人生最大的劲敌竟是青春…。究竟是追求名利的他们,操控了青春、权力与金钱;还是青春、权力与金钱,从头到尾都操控著他们?
江蕙
发表于2分钟前回复 :Siddartha (Dhritiman Chatterjee) is forced to discontinue his medical studies due to unexpected and brutal death of his father. He has to now find a job in stead. In one job interview, he is asked to name the most significant world event in the last ten years. His reply is 'the plain human courage shown by the people of Vietnam', instead of the expected - man landing on moon. The interviewer asks is he is a communist. Needles to say that he does not get the job.He reaches a coffee shop where he is offered to work for the communist party. When he does not show any interest the party leader tells him about an opening for a medical representative. To escape from the heat and have a snooze, he goes in to a cinema. As a government propaganda newsreel is being shown before the feature, a bomb explodes in the cinema hall. In the stampede that follows, Siddartha, breaks his watch. He goes to a watchmaker but he cannot afford the repairs.Waiting to cross the road, he notices a sexy girl. He drifts back to his days as a medical student in a flashback. The professor is explaining anatomy of female breast. Many flashbacks and dreams occur to Siddartha through the film.On his way to hostel, he has an encounter with some hippies. Along with an ex-classmate, he goes out to see a porn film but to their disappointment, the film turns out to be not-so-pornographic.In such constant wandering in a Calcutta, disintegrated relationships with his sister and a Naxalite (militant communist) brother, his friendship with Keya is only thing that keeps him sane.Keya is a simple girl. They enjoy each other's company but they cannot make any commitment to each other due to the circumstances.After yet another attempt at a job interview, Siddartha leaves the big city to take a modest job of a salesman in a far off small town. He writes to Keya that he still cherishes their relationship. And that he has heard that bird call again but this time it is for real, and not his mind. After completing the letter, he comes out to the balcony of his modest room. The bird calls again. He also hears the sombre chants of a funeral procession. As he turns to the camera, the picture is frozen.This is the first film of the Calcutta Trilogy. The other two were and Seemabaddha (Company Limited, 1971) and Jana Aranya (The Middle Man, 1975). All the three films study the effect the big city of Calcutta has on the educated youth and the price it extracts from them.The seventies were a difficult period for India and West Bengal. The Corruption was rampant; the Naxalite movement had created havoc in Calcutta. In fact, they had turned parts of Calcutta into 'liberated zones'. By the time the Naxalite movement died down, in 1975, Mrs. Indira Gandhi (then, Prime Minister of India) suppressed the fundamental rights and declared "Emergency" for her own political survival. Her son, Sanjay Gandhi became a dictator of sorts without any official designation. The opposition leaders were thrown into prisons.About his social responsibilities as a filmmaker, in an interview with Cineaste magazine, Ray commented, "You can see my attitude in The Adversary where you have two brothers. The younger brother is a Naxalite. There is no doubt that the elder brother admires the younger brother for his bravery and convictions. The film is not ambiguous about that. As a filmmaker, however, I was more interested in the elder brother because he is the vacillating character. As a psychological entity, as a human being with doubts, he is a more interesting character to me. The younger brother has already identified himself with a cause. That makes him part of a total attitude and makes him unimportant. The Naxalite movement takes over. He, as a person, becomes insignificant."In a letter to Seton in 1970, Ray wrote that Pratidwandi was the most provocative film he had made till then. The film is said to have evoked extreme reactions. "People either loved the film or hated it", Dhritiman Chatterjee told Andrew Robinson, Ray's biographer.