哀乐中年
1920或30年代的上海。 创办小学多年并自任校长的陈绍常(石挥)早年丧妻,独自抚养两子建中、建平和一女建英。与他一起生活的大姐劝他续弦,他虽也有心,却因目睹挚友的爱女刘敏华备受后母虐待,断了念头。不久,挚友亡故,敏华辞别他后随后母迁居外地,一别十年。两人再见面时,敏华(朱嘉琛)已成长为独立自强却不失贤淑的新女性,因不愿再受后母摆布,她拜托绍常介绍一份工作。随后,她成为绍常的同事。 成年的建中(韩非)如愿以偿成为某家银行的职员,因得经理赏识,他结识其女冯丽君(李浣青),很快变作其乘龙快婿,社会地位日益提高。建中夫妇认为绍常卑微的小学校长身份丢了他们的脸,劝他退休在家做老太爷,绍常虽一百个不情愿,却也乖乖听命。敏华接下他的工作。只是赋闲在家的日子不好过,每日时间都似他那块坏掉了的老怀表般静止不动。而将无聊心情讲给家人听时,家人或怨他有福不懂享、或自忙自事无暇顾他,他的失落一日多过一日,与建中夫妇的矛盾亦越来越多。 又到一年清明时,拜祭亡妻时,绍常遇见前来祭母的敏华,感慨人到老年只能等死,敏华却认为人在中年的他正处于事业的黄金期,劝他再回学校教书。而听从敏华建议偷偷瞒着建中再回学校教书一事漏泄后,建中对他的态度更加冷淡,但他已铁了心。“天意怜幽草,人间爱晚晴”,其后,他无意间发现自己与敏华早已两情相悦,决定与她结婚,此事更令建中夫妇大为恼火。©豆瓣
哈利与马克斯
Harry and Max lacks all of the subtle interplay between characters that has so far been a hallmark of Christopher Munch's films. The premise sounded interesting and challenging, but the film was a let down for me.                                                                    None of the characters here, even Harry and Max themselves, are fully formed. Unfortunately, this means that the salacious premise (the repercussions of two teen pop idol brothers' incest) never overcomes its own silliness. I thought the nearly non-stop chatter between the two main characters would eventually be banished as merely a cover up for their deeper thoughts, but no, apparently this silly dialog was meant to be thought provoking in some way.                                                                    Why are these guys pop stars? Oh yeah, because who wants to see a movie about incest unless the stars are attractive? It should be central to their characters, but it seems only to be an excuse for Harry to have some sort of A Star is Born angst and for the audience to see pretty faces.                                                                    Max is infatuated with Harry, then Harry is infatuated with Max, both sleep with the other's past loves, vague hints are given about their messed up family and absolutely NOTHING of significance about love, human nature, lust, relationships, or anything else is ever revealed.                                                                    Not helping matters is the cursery development of all other characters. Josiah, Roxanne and Jordan are all treated like pieces of the set to be moved around at the need of the director. None has any depth, motivations or interesting qualities beyond their usefulness as background for Harry and Max. Even the boys' mother is reduced to two minutes of muddled screen time bitchiness. Nikki, for me, was the only interesting character here, but the reasons for her choices are never explored and in the end she winds up as flat as all the others.                                                                    Writers need to make choices and here none have been made. Either focus only on Harry and Max, or focus on their world, but please do one or the other with some degree of success! To my mind, this is Christopher Munch's worst film to date, not because of its scandalous subject matter, but because of its inability to reveal anything of interest about it!                                                                    兄弟禁断之爱。哥哥哈瑞是前男孩乐队成员,看着16岁的弟弟马克在他之后成为青年偶象。这个冬天,本来打算去日本的他绕路陪伴马克帐篷旅行。但起初充满欢乐和兄弟情谊的旅行却很快冷却下来,他们之间的问题重新浮出水面,无法忽视,迫使他们面对那伤痕累累的过去:哈瑞酗酒的毛病,他对家庭的疏离,还有他与马克的暧昧关系。这些,在他们成长的岁月中,如影随形;两人的感情,也始终寻不到确切的出口。                                                                    这是一部耐看的作品。有点像小品,有点像实验电影,乍看之下朴实无华,仔细看了,却是此中有深意。两兄弟有个自私又贪财的母亲,只有彼此可以依靠。一起成长,积累回忆,情不自禁成为彼此最在意的人。虽然不是那种伴侣,或者,他们那样才是终身伴侣吧。然而,无关哥哥的酗酒,还有他们的家庭困境,他们只是无法纯粹地在一起。每个人都有Dark Side的部分,只有最亲近的人,才会让他见到自己最不堪的一面吧。亲情,友情,爱情,界限又在哪里呢?                                                                    “反观我们一起成长的那段人生里                                                                    大多数人想有个一个像Harry这样的哥哥                                                                    但我们无法控制                                                                    相互吸引”
哈森与加米拉
哈森是一名哈萨克族的青年牧民,他与姑娘加米拉彼此深深相爱。大牧主居奴斯的儿子帕的夏伯克也看上了加米拉,并追求她。再遭到拒绝后,他心有不甘,派家人上门说亲,加米拉的父亲贪图钱财,答应了这门亲事。加米拉被帕的夏伯克强行抢去,哈森父子也被逐出了草原。但哈森和加米拉并不绝望,在富有正义感的牧民色力克和库兰的暗中帮助下,加米拉被救出虎口,两人开始逃亡。他们躲进了一个山洞中,过着原始但却平和的生活。第二年春天,加米拉还生下一个儿子。但好景不常,大牧主请求国民党反动派派兵搜捕二人,国民党反动派为利用大牧主居奴斯的势力巩固其在新疆的统治,接受了请求,派兵四处搜捕,抓回了哈森与加米拉,并残害了他们的孩子,加米拉重又落入帕的夏伯克手中。后来,关在牢中的哈森与难友暴动出狱,参加民族联军,并随大军回到草原,消灭匪军,惩办了牧主父子,救出了加米拉。哈森与加米拉终于过上了幸福自由的新生活。                                                                    这是我国电影史上第一部反映哈萨克牧区生活的电影,吴永刚根据自己在新疆生活的两年导演了该剧,男、女主角的扮演者阿布来和法丽达,都是哈萨克族的年轻人,曾获文化部优秀影片三等奖。
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