本片是美国“垮掉派”诗人艾伦·金斯堡(詹姆斯·弗兰科 James Franco 饰)的传记片,片名《嚎叫》沿用了金斯堡的同名长诗。
艾伦·金斯堡,是美国战后“垮掉的一代”文学流派里的代表性诗人。他的代表作《嚎叫》出版后备受争议,其出版社甚至被起诉出售淫秽资料。金斯堡的父亲是个无名诗人,他的母亲后被送往精神病院。金斯堡是个同性恋者,他有过三段同性恋情,前两次都无疾而终,而第三段与彼得·奥莱斯基(艾伦·特维特 Aaron Tveit 饰)的恋爱,使他感到无比幸福,这段经历成为他的长诗《嚎叫》的部分灵感来源,而彼得成为了他的终身伴侣。
本片主要以法庭审判长诗《嚎叫》、金斯堡剖白自己、金斯堡在众人面前朗诵长诗这三个场景,来表现传主金斯堡50年代的生平经历以及他的思想,金斯堡的合作者、漫画家埃里克·杜克还会以动画形式来展示诗歌《嚎叫》的内容。。Made for only $350,000 in 1985 when no one wanted to fund or star in a movie about lesbians, Desert Hearts is widely considered the first full-length lesbian love story, and its success paved the way for the proliferation of lesbian films we enjoy today.
Directed by Donna Deitch and set in 1950's Reno, Nevada, Desert Hearts tells the story of a 35-year-old uptight female professor Vivian (Helen Shaver) who comes to town to file for divorce and ends up falling in love with a free-spirited 25-year-old casino worker Cay (Patricia Charbonneau).
Although Vivian left her husband because she had "drowned in still waters," she is not quite prepared for the tidal wave-effect Cay has on her life. As Vivian herself admits, her life is all about "order," and her image of herself as a scholar and a professional, upstanding woman does not include a relationship with a woman. Cay, meanwhile, is living at home with her stepmother, Frances (Audra Lindley) while she waits to meet someone who "counts"--and she almost immediately recognizes that Vivian is that someone.
Both women struggle with conflicting desires and a sense of obligation to others, and are ultimately drawn together not just because of their attraction to each other, but because each woman offers the other something she has been unable to find on her own.。在五岁的侄子的陪同下,善正把他嫂子的遗体带回家族所在的村庄。在越南的腹地,等待他的还有诞生自过往记忆与欲望的鬼魂——自己的青春,早已离开去重建生活的兄弟,以及战争。这是一次带有神秘色彩的朝圣之旅,前往越南的农村地区,探寻鲜为人知的基督教少数群体。。