A small-time wrestling company accepts a well-paying gig in a backwoods town only to learn, too late, that the community is run by a mysterious cult leader with devious plans for their match.
Sophie is a twenty-year-old American woman who has lived all her solitary life in a bubble. During a vacation in Palermo with her sister, she meets Giulio and his group of Sicilian friends. Anxious to let go and live life to the hilt, Sophie decides to walk along the edge of disaster and gets sucked into a vortex of risky behavior that turns a mere romp on the wild side into a ...
Lisa learns that her stepfather, whom she hasn't seen in years, suffered a deadly fall down the stairs at the family home and that her estranged mother has been arrested for his murder. As she begins to investigate what happened, she discovers that not everything is as it seems.
A small-time wrestling company accepts a well-paying gig in a backwoods town only to learn, too late, that the community is run by a mysterious cult leader with devious plans for their match.
《日本故事》的愛情相當虛擬,也正是因為虛擬才令人響往。暫先丟掉跨國文化及亞澳糾結的歷史情結,想像一位日本男孩和澳洲女人的性愛場景。是的,這部電影充滿愛情電影及沙漠電影的陳腔,但黃男孩與白女人的性愛場景的虛擬讓這部電影不至成為爛調。
這部澳洲「國片」的幕後故事可以讓像我愛講古或愛賣弄政經分析的「學者」分析個老半天,尤其是不同的讀者絕對會有不同的解讀,但再怎麼說,這是個在風景瑰麗的愛情故事。獨特的是這個「國片」所拍的近赤紅的美麗沙漠,和黃男孩與白女人的感官情愛,這兩者都是未開發的電影處女地。這兩者-地景與性愛場景-分別都是「第一次」進入視覺化的消費,合在一起更是虛擬到不行。這部電影的開端,本身就是虛擬的,根據澳洲國片最大的政府支持者,澳洲影片委員會(Australian Film Commission)的主席親口透露 (我上課聽其演講),這部電影是從...