汤姆是世界一流的问题化解高手,专门在腐败公司和威胁其破产的个人之间进行利润丰厚的回报,他通过周密的计划将自己身份保密,始终遵循一套严格的规则。当某天一位潜在客户莎拉告知她需要汤姆的保护来活命后,规则很快开始发生改变。。经过煞费苦心的钻营设计,弗兰西斯·安德伍德(凯文·史派西 Kevin Spacey 饰)如愿坐上总统宝座。但在他执政的半年时间里,民调支持率一路走低,而其强硬专横的执政风格也在党内外备受争议。为了成功赢得2016年大选,弗兰西斯力推精心打造的《美国就业法案》笼络人心。此外,和俄罗斯接二连三的较量中,他步步为营,小心周旋,却也不免壮士断腕。克莱尔(罗宾·怀特 Robin Wright 饰)雄心勃勃,试图在联合国一建功勋,夫妇俩携手出征的过程中渐行渐远。受了重伤的道格(迈克尔·凯利 Michael Kelly 饰)被迫闲赋在家,他始终关注弗兰西斯的动向,时刻渴望回到幕僚团队。
在更大的政治利益或者政治理想面前,每个人都不得不做出惨烈的牺牲,以迎接即将到来的蜕变……。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.。