故事发生在堪萨斯州的一个小城里，天天天天天当地的一名专替黑帮打官司的律师查理（约翰•库萨克 John Cusack 饰）平时运气平平，天天天天天圣诞前夜却交了天大的好运。他和律师楼的拍档维克（比利•鲍伯•松顿 Billy Bob Thornton 饰）从当地黑帮老大比尔（兰迪•奎德 Randy Quaid 饰）那里弄到整整两百万美金！两人打算在圣诞节那天就携款远走高飞，查理还打算带上自己的红颜知己雷纳塔（康妮•尼尔森 Connie Nielsen 饰）一起。两人的美梦却在圣诞节当天被一场暴风雪击得粉碎。因为暴风雪的原因，当地的交通完全瘫痪，所有人都被困在了这个小城镇。眼看着比尔派来的杀手在步步逼近，警察也在追寻他们，查理和维克怎样度过这个风雪圣诞夜？
回复 :大學二年級的春天，突然接到一通高中時戲劇社的葉山老師打來的電話。至今仍對老師抱持單戀情感的泉在心跳不已的同時，回想起畢業前老師所說的不為人知的心傷過去。宛如電影獨白般，敘述過去的仰慕回憶與現在若有似無的情愫交織，深深的扣人心弦。
回复 :康沃尔渔村的风景明信片田园诗误导了人们。虽然过去钓鱼是一种养家糊口的方式，但如今富有的伦敦游客纷纷下山，取代了当地人，当地人的生计因此受到威胁。史蒂文和马丁兄弟的关系也很紧张。马丁是一个没有船的渔夫，因为史蒂文开始用它来为一整天的游客提供更赚钱的旅游。他们卖掉了这座家庭别墅，现在看来，最后一场战斗是和新主人在海边的停车位上展开。然而，情况很快就失控了，而不仅仅是因为车轮夹钳。Bait是一种黑白，手工制作，16毫米胶片制作的电影。许多关于鱼、网、龙虾、长靴、绳结和渔篮的特写镜头让人想起了蒙太奇景点的理论。对不同社会阶层的描述——可以说是阶级关系——也让人想起了英国电影中的社会现实主义传统。然而，最重要的是，在影像中不同层次的电影历史参考文献之下，当前许多政治关联正在等待被发现。The picture-postcard idyll of the Cornwall fishing village is misleading. While fishing used to be a way of supporting oneself, wealthy London tourists have now descended and are displacing the locals, whose livelihood is thus threatened. The relationship between brothers Steven and Martin is also strained. Martin is a fisherman without a boat, since Steven started using it for far more lucrative tours for all the day-trippers. They’ve sold the family cottage and now it seems that the final battle to be fought is that with the new owners over the parking space next to the sea. Yet the situation soon gets out of hand, and not just because of the wheel clamp.Bait is a black-and-white film shot on hand-processed 16mm. Numerous close-ups of fish, nets, lobsters, wellington boots, knots and catch baskets bring to mind the theory of a montage of attractions. The depiction of the different social strata – one could speak of class relations – is also reminiscent of the tradition of social realism in British cinema. Above all, however, a whole lot of current political relevance is waiting to be discovered beneath the different layers of film historical references contained in the images.
张淑玲
回复 :An American photographer on assignment in a remote Icelandic community becomes entangled with an enigmatic European couple.
