家族情仇

　　故事发生在1945年2月一批被关押在泰国坎博里劳工营里的战俘被日本军方下令长途转移押送回日本本土在运送途中波折不断当地游击队的拦截战俘的逃跑都被无情而残酷地镇压最终这批战俘在越南西贡登上货船巴西丸号由军舰护卫前往日本在海上航行的日日夜夜里战俘们遭受了地狱般的折磨和煎熬由英军少校本福德和澳籍中校亨特率领他们忍无可忍奋起反抗夺下了货船的控制权而此时一艘美军潜艇由于不知内情受上级指令向所有悬挂日本旗帜的船只开火数枚鱼雷击中货船战俘们再一次面临巨大的生死考验

　　Une femme et quatre hommes, qui se connaissent à peine, se retrouvent dans un appartement en plein ciel audessus de Paris Ils ont tous été victimes du même pervers dominateur Ce soirlà, ils décident d#39en finir avec cette histoire Tour à tour, ils se racontent des souvenirs qui les lient à cet homme et entrent dans l#39unique chambre de l#39appartement pour se confronter à lui Mais ce qui s#39y passe reste leur secret

　　In Uruguay, they don#39t say cheese in front of the camera they say whisky Beneath the artificially photographed smiles, however, is a blueprint for the quotSouth American Gothic,quot minus the farm and the forks These Montevidean folks#39 stony expressions belie a life gripped frozen by accustomed routines So it goes with an old Jewish bachelor who owns an ageing sock factory When his estranged younger brother decides to visit for their mother#39s burial, he asks his employee Marta to pose as his wife The resulting encounter creates clumsy silences that are uncomfortably comic Grand Prize, Tokyo Film Festival and FIPRESCI prize from Cannes
　　這一代的年輕人真係好老成好cool兩個新導演還不到三十便已拍出型到飛起黑色到痺的老人寂寞晚境話說襪廠老闆阿積孤家寡人寂寞到死一天飛來鴻雁巴西的弟弟話來拜訪他要表面風光唯有求忠厚下屬瑪泰暫充老婆兩個名字同樣叫孤獨的六十幾歲人忽然親近彆扭得不在話下口若懸河的巴西弟弟一出現畫面調子大轉彎三人海邊度假瑪泰沉睡的神經率先波動往後發生的事估都估唔到郭利斯馬基式冷面幽默扭橋扭到熱帶南美黑色照舊輕描淡寫功力同樣高超另一種風情絕對原創去年康城驚艷連奪國際影評人獎及原創觀點大獎
　　Source 29th HKIFF 2005

　　quotDr Cyclopsquot is known as one of the better quotearly scifiquot films, made in #3939 and released in 1940 It is also in color But while the story has potential and there are some good moments, this is a very confused film
　　The plot is simple crazy mad scientist on some remote island can shrink animals, and wants to try it on humans He manages this on a scientific team that came to check things out They get angry, and the crazy scientist eventually gets really angry because his new shrunken subjects won#39t cooperate
　　The thing is, the film doesn#39t seem to know if it wants to be a thriller, or a goofy movie Dr Cyclops never called that but referenced to a Cyclops after one lens in his glasses breaks looks cool in his quot30#39s style scifi helmetquot as he performs experiments and can be chilling at times But there is so much quotDisneystyle goofy musicquot going on that it is hard to take anything seriously The music belongs in a family comedy for the most part, and is played when the shrunken people do things like try to survive, and creep around the floor Add that a few of them have pretty gruesome deaths and that just adds to the confusing atmosphere
　　The FX aren#39t so bad but nothing special The giant sets built are pretty impressive though There is a scene where little fires are tossed at a real crocodile#39s head which probably made animal activists angry
　　It also takes a long time for anything to really happen This movie could have been done in a nice tight halfhour Good for a viewing, but you probably won#39t watch again The performance of the guy who plays Dr Cyclops is definitely the main attraction