本片描述了隋炀帝荒淫无度,好大喜功,施暴政,不听真言,最终导致大规模农民起义的故事。隋末至唐初,广征史籍记载,运用丰富的艺术手段,从“李世民劝说父亲兴起义兵”讲起,形象地再现了一个大变动时代跌宕起伏、波澜壮阔的历史场面。同时又让观众看到了人民群众力量的伟大,熟知了“水能载舟亦能覆舟”之真谛,是具时代性的作品,而非普通的历史片。。It tells the story of how the Satanic Panic of the 1980s was ignited by "Michelle Remembers", a memoir by psychiatrist and his patient. The book relied on recovered-memory therapy to uncover Michelle's abduction by baby-stealing Satanists.。