该片集合了剧情、商战、爱情、枪战动作,以及神秘的非洲风情和绚丽的自然风光等众多商业类型片元素,以中国通讯企业开拓海外市场苦难辉煌的真实故事为核心内容,浓墨重彩地塑造描写了中国通讯企业的海外一线员工用具有自主核心竞争力的国产高科技通讯产品建设和服务非洲,在枪林弹雨中用生命维护和平,用自己的才华和勇气彰显中国精神、中国责任、中国智慧、中国形象的感人故事。。故事开始于遥远的1642年,士兵约翰(尼可拉·科斯特-瓦尔道 Nikolaj Coster-Waldau 饰)跟随着军队在荷兰驻扎,在此期间,他意外地救下了一位印第安女郎,为了报答约翰的救命之恩,女郎在他的身上施下了神秘的魔法,那就是约翰将拥有无止境的青春和生命,直到他遇见命中注定的爱情。 就这样,漫长的三百年过去了,在此期间,约翰可谓是目睹了整个世界的巨变。漫长的生命带来的是无尽的孤独,尽管也曾有过美女相伴,但那个约翰命中注定的爱情,似乎还未出现。如今,约翰是一名警察,在一次追捕嫌犯的过程中,约翰竟然心脏病突发而亡,复活之后,心中异样的情感告诉约翰,他几百年来想要寻找的那个人,就在当时的人群之中。。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.。