不久的未来毒品泛滥已经失去控制一种极易上瘾的非法药品D药丸在美国境内流行政府当局只好利用高科技监视系统对抗失控的局面卧底的缉毒探员弗瑞德基努•里维斯 饰化名巴布•亚特试图追踪毒品来源这样他与小毒贩唐娜•霍桑薇诺娜•瑞德饰吸毒者吉姆•贝芮斯小罗伯特•唐尼饰厄尼•洛克曼伍迪•哈里逊饰查尔斯•费克罗瑞•考克兰饰等人住在一起但实际上弗瑞德也被D药丸的毒瘾深深吸引随着毒瘾越来越深他逐渐模糊现实与虚假间的界线失去神智的弗瑞德不断追寻大毒枭的隐藏之处毫不知情自己一直置身于幕后黑手的摆弄
In Uruguay, they don#39t say cheese in front of the camera they say whisky Beneath the artificially photographed smiles, however, is a blueprint for the quotSouth American Gothic,quot minus the farm and the forks These Montevidean folks#39 stony expressions belie a life gripped frozen by accustomed routines So it goes with an old Jewish bachelor who owns an ageing sock factory When his estranged younger brother decides to visit for their mother#39s burial, he asks his employee Marta to pose as his wife The resulting encounter creates clumsy silences that are uncomfortably comic Grand Prize, Tokyo Film Festival and FIPRESCI prize from Cannes 這一代的年輕人真係好老成好cool兩個新導演還不到三十便已拍出型到飛起黑色到痺的老人寂寞晚境話說襪廠老闆阿積孤家寡人寂寞到死一天飛來鴻雁巴西的弟弟話來拜訪他要表面風光唯有求忠厚下屬瑪泰暫充老婆兩個名字同樣叫孤獨的六十幾歲人忽然親近彆扭得不在話下口若懸河的巴西弟弟一出現畫面調子大轉彎三人海邊度假瑪泰沉睡的神經率先波動往後發生的事估都估唔到郭利斯馬基式冷面幽默扭橋扭到熱帶南美黑色照舊輕描淡寫功力同樣高超另一種風情絕對原創去年康城驚艷連奪國際影評人獎及原創觀點大獎 Source 29th HKIFF 2005
