故事发生在1963年,时值冷战期间,哑女艾丽莎在政府实验室里工作,是那里的一名清洁女工。年幼时,一场大病夺走了艾丽莎的声音,之后一直至今,她都在沉默之中过着形单影只的生活,全部的朋友就只有画家老头和同事塞尔达。
一天,实验室里拉响了高度戒备的警报,一个神秘的装满了水的罐子被送了进来,艾丽莎震惊的发现,罐子里关着一个半人半鱼的怪异生物。在理查德的带领下,科学家团队想要在这怪物身上提炼出能够制造生物武器的物质,可是在艾丽莎眼中,它不过是一个和自己一样孤独的生命体。随着时间的推移,艾尔莎和怪物之间竟然产生了感情。。大陆改革开放初期,优先发展的广东一带是内陆许多省市年轻人眼中的天堂,北方某省名叫赵家坳的小山村就有赵小云、志强等六名青年男女怀着梦想来到广东,他们希望通过打工改变自己的命运。其时纺织、玩具制造等产业是广东的发展支柱,心细手快的打工妹远比笨手拙脚的打工仔吃香,赵小云等几个姑娘很快进入某厂成为“外来妹”,志强等几个男孩则被拒之门外。
外面的世界很精彩,外面的世界很无奈。漫漫打工路令几个情如姐妹的姑娘做出不同的人生抉择:有的经不起金钱考验,走上不归路;有的与当地人结婚,留在了广东;有的感慨金窝银窝好不过自己的狗窝,又回赵家坳……其中故事最为精彩的,当属赵小云:事业上经过波折有很大成就令人感叹,她与香港老板的情感纠葛亦扣人心弦。。Herbert Vesely was one of the promises for a new German cinema already in the 50's, but after the 60's his star was already dimmed. He made a small number of films in the 70's and 80's, all non too good. This biography of Egon Schiele, one of the most important Austrian artists, is an example of the pretensions and emptiness of a Vesely-film of later date.
The life of Schiele is presented here as a puzzle| well, Vesely thinks that Schiele's life was a puzzle: the core of the story is centered around the famous 1912 pornography trial and using this as base the film shows fragments of past and future. The problem is that it never becomes a unity and that the order of scenes and sequences seems to be at random: a cut-and-paste job that could have had any other result. Indeed, after seeing it twice I am almost convinced of it that a unsatisfactory linear thought-out film was changed into the puzzle in the editing room. Egon Schiele was an enigmatic man, but not a total puzzle, and this film does not bring him any closer.
The films also fails in conveying the eroticism and meaning of the Schiele's paintings: the camera watches and glides over the models without any understanding of Schiele's intentions, we only see beautiful naked bodies. If interested in Schiele, you better buy a book with his works in stead.。