上世纪70年代初，日韩与家人音讯全无隔绝多年的劳改犯陆焉识（陈道明 饰）在一次农场转迁途中逃跑回家。这对怀抱芭蕾舞梦想的女儿丹丹（张慧雯 饰）带来了巨大压力，日韩她阻止母亲冯婉瑜（巩俐 饰）与父亲的相见。因此夫妻二人近在咫尺却又相隔天涯。文革结束后，陆焉识终于平反回家，但是他却发现女儿早已放弃了芭蕾的梦想成了一名工厂女工，而深爱的妻子因为患病已经不认识自己。深厚的感情、生活的变故，迫使陆焉识做出了对他来说最荒唐却又最合理的人生选择……本片是张艺谋导演加盟乐视影业后的第一部作品，被编剧邹静之誉为苦心之作。
回复 :This is a brilliant surrealistic film.But also a fully realistic story about a time when the brave avant-guarde artists were trying to explore the unknown landscapes of human possibilities.The contrast between two realities: the poor village and the dadaist artists is shown very smart and brings the possibility of changing the world by the art.Unfortunately, that progressive ideals of making the world better by revealing new areas of imagination, that ruled in the first half of XX century, were crushed by the war.And, the tragedy finishes: the artistic ideals are dead, international art brotherhood also, but, as a real disaster: Yugoslavia is also dead, as a country, but as an artistic vision of nation's brotherhood, too.So, the art falls apart
回复 :本作品是提出“导演绝对主义”的电影实验公司“Cinema Lab”的一部作品。除了上田之外，本广克行、押井守、中小和哉也参加了该唱片公司。
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回复 :马丁·斯科塞斯的学生作业
