红楼梦第五部：晴雯夭亡

「Love Will Tear Us Apart」では、久保田演じる真下わかばに関わる人たちが次々と殺されていくさまが描かれる。

　　夏小雨(林青霞 饰）与郝大风（秦汉 饰）是学校里的风云人物，同时亦是门当户对的青梅竹马。虽然在旁人眼中，他们是非常般配的一对，但大风是个自大狂，而小雨亦性格非常强势，两人在一起总是针锋相对，碰撞出了非常多的摩擦。
　　小雨的叔叔夏怀中（江明 饰）从美国留学归来，想要在国内组建家庭，在机缘巧合之下认识了大风的姐姐小曼（陈莎莉 饰），最终，两人顺利的走到了一起。大风和小雨因为这段姻缘而又加深了对彼此的了解。随着时间的推移，两人之间的误会渐渐消弭，两颗心越靠越近。

　　故事发生在1980年代的都柏林，因为家境窘迫，十四岁的少年康纳（福迪亚·瓦尔什-匹罗 Ferdia Walsh-Peelo 饰）不得不转学来到了一所校规极为严苛死板的教会学校中就读。在那里，他惹上了横行霸道脾气古怪的巴里（伊安·肯尼 Ian Kenny 饰），可见未来的日子不会好过。
　　某日，康纳邂逅了名叫蕾菲娜（露西·宝通 Lucy Boynton 饰）的美丽女孩，为了吸引蕾菲娜的注意，康纳邀请她来主演自己乐队拍摄的MV，哪知道蕾菲娜欣然应允，那么问题来了，对演奏音乐几乎一窍不通的康纳，该如何在短时间内组建一支乐队呢？好在康纳拥有一群热爱音乐的朋友们，很快，一支名为“唱街”的乐队成立了。

　　An orphan boy and a pampered rich-kid girl are trying to uncover secrets of the past to save their romance and their skin.

　　宝钗去看宝玉，宝玉梦见黛玉来看他，晚上送帕给黛玉试探，黛玉在帕上题诗。袭人道王夫人出诉说对宝玉的担忧，王夫人很赞赏，给了她妾的许诺。薛姨妈，宝钗错怪了薛蟠，薛蟠说出宝钗金玉良缘的打算来气宝钗，宝钗委屈。
　　螃蟹宴后，刘姥姥再进贾府，受到贾母款待。贾母带着刘姥姥游大观园，并要求惜春给刘姥姥画大观园图。鸳鸯和凤姐撺掇刘姥姥出丑给贾母作乐，众人其乐融融。一行人来到藕香榭喝酒行令，黛玉无意中失口说出《牡丹亭》中的词句。
　　刘姥姥在藕香榭宴席上暴饮套杯美酒、莫辩茄菜何料，笑得众人前仰后合。妙玉登场，超凡出尘，竟胜宝黛，令宝玉出离神往。刘姥姥吃坏了肚子，醉眠怡红院。当夜，宝钗借黛玉行白天酒令之事，深情劝诫“女子不可看杂书”，黛玉深深感激。
　　贾母为凤姐大办生日，学小家子凑份子，举府眷仆，纷纷迎合，尤氏总理。凤姐实仍暗中操控。小小“份儿钱”，暗藏大家族各路玄机。庆生当日，亦是金钏儿忌日，宝玉却全身缟素，茗烟快马奔至水仙庵，深情泪祭，唯黛玉心知肚明。
　　贾琏与鲍二家的在房内白日偷欢，凤姐闻之撒泼大闹，更加罪于平儿。平儿委屈不尽，以死相向。贾琏恼羞成怒，拔剑威胁。凤姐向贾母求救。宝玉深情无限，抚慰平儿，平儿受宠若惊。在贾母微笑监督之下，贾琏、凤姐、平儿重修旧好。三人回房，惊闻鲍二家的上吊自尽。
　　新年将至，庄头乌进孝来宁府交租，因旱涝之故，上缴的租子银两并未达到贾珍预算。租子的一年不如一年引发贾珍不满。管理家庙的贾芹去贾珍处领年货，反遭贾珍一顿数落。除夕夜，贾母带领众多儿孙去宁国府宗祠祭祖，履行两府每年的传统。元宵晚宴上，黛玉不顾体统，众目睽睽之下让宝玉代其喝酒。因女先儿的一出《凤求凰》，贾母掰谎，批才子佳人。凤姐连说两个“散了”的笑话，预示着盛宴必散的结局。

　　故事发生在抗战时期，少女唐琪（林黛 饰）的父亲在战争中为了保卫祖国而英勇牺牲，母亲病重最终撒手人寰。孤苦无依的唐琪只得投靠住在天津的姨母。在那里，唐琪邂逅了名为醒亚的男子。经过了解，醒亚亦是一名孤儿，相似的人生经历让两颗孤独的心迅速靠近，碰撞出了爱情的火花。然而，唐琪的姨母擅自将她许配给了汉奸王科长，醒亚的姑父母也坚决反对两人之间的感情。为了避免沦为汉奸之妻的命运，唐琪毅然决然的离家出走，来到护士学校想要成为一名护士。
　　不幸的是，学校的校长是衣冠禽兽，他玷污了唐琪，致使心灰意冷的她沦落成为舞女。

　　阿伦（谭咏麟）与志伟（曾志伟）打小便是一对好友，分离20年重相见时，志伟办了一家养鸡场，阿伦在一家PUB苦练歌艺，梦想成为一名歌星。志伟邂逅Olive（张曼玉）后介绍她与阿伦认识，令他们生出感情，志伟虽也心仪Olive，但鉴于兄弟情深只把情感藏在心底。
　　后来阿伦如愿以偿成为当红歌星，同志伟与Olive相处时间日益减少，令他们于“被冷落”中生出共患难的心情。一场台风摧毁养鸡场，志伟黯然离去，Olive也在了解到志伟出走真相后，悄然与阿伦分手。但三人的缘分并没到此终止。

　　印度电影《结婚》（Saathiya ）是一部极具宝莱坞风格的歌舞片，讲述了一对欢喜冤家的爱情故事。

　　Because I could not stop for Death, he kindly stopped for me; the carriage held but just ourselves and immortality” – Emily Dickinson
　　If Death took a holiday, the guns would go silent in Iraq, the slaughter on our nation’s highways would cease, and the news media would be compelled to cover positive events in the humanities, arts, and sciences. Unfortunately, Death has not had a vacation in recorded history, but Mitchell Leisen’s 1934 fantasy, Death Takes a Holiday, allows us to consider the possibility. Co-written by Maxwell Anderson and Gladys Lehman and based on the play "La Morte in Vacanza" by Alberto Casella, Death Takes a Holiday stars Frederic March as the Grim Reaper who takes on human form in an attempt to discover why men fear him so much. Why he has waited 5,000 years to satisfy this curiosity is not explained.
　　[Spoiler] After a brief tryout as a shadowy figure who scares the daylights out of those that cross his path, Death shows up at, of all places, an upscale party at an Italian villa, posing as the mysterious Prince Sirki. Only one person knows who he really is, the host Duke Lambert (Guy Standing), and he is sworn to secrecy. Sirki proceeds to fascinate the guests. Given to bursts of wit and poetry, he can just as quickly turn sullen and threatening, and some soon find out that it is better not to look too deeply into his eyes. During the three days in which the Prince is at the villa, however, people all over the world miraculously escape death and potential suicides are doomed to frustration.
　　To see what’s behind all the conversation about love, the suave but naïve Prince Sirki falls for the irresistible Grazia (Evelyn Venable), the daughter of one of Duke’s friends. Grazia knows who Death is but does not fear him, much to the chagrin of her fiancé, Corrado (Kent Taylor) who has developed a strong disdain for Prince Charming.
　　More sinister than Brad Pitt in the 1998 remake Meet Joe Black, March turns in a very convincing performance as the creepy yet strangely appealing guest. Although the ending is melodramatic, the emotions are very real and the suggestion that Death may in reality be a friend disguised as a foe is quite touching.
　　(Howard Schumann, talkingpix.co.uk)
　　In this wearisome and predictable plot line, Death falls in love and bores us to death talking about it.
　　(Dennis Schwartz, homepages.sover.net)
　　I've heard DRACULA was advertised with the tag line "The Weirdest Love Story ever told!" (this is probably a paraphrase), but at heart, I've never felt that you could honestly call that movie a love story. The tag line would be much more appropriate for this one, since it ultimately boils down to what amounts to a love story. This movie is very good indeed, particularly if you consider that it is built around a concept that could have easily been handled in a cute or facile manner. Instead, it is handled as seriously as possible, with some real thought put into how death would try to come to terms with a life and an outlook that was to that point totally unfamiliar to him; much of the credit does go to Fredric March in the title role. It's quite scary when it needs to be, particularly during the first twenty minutes. From then on, it deals with its themes with subtlety, a quiet wit, an enduring sadness, and an everpresent tension on how Death might react if crossed. It's not perfect; some of the dialogue is self-conscious and artificial, as if the writers knew they were dealing with weighty issues and were trying to be profound. But I am certainly glad they didn't try to turn it into a musical comedy of sorts.
　　(Dave Sindelar, scifilm.org)
　　See also the remake: Death Takes A Holiday (1971)

　　铁蛋的爱情开始得早，八岁就恋上了邻家巧妇美姐（叶兰 饰 成年美姐）。文革禁唱地方戏曲二人台，也驱离了美姐一家人。辗转十多年，铁蛋（冯四 饰）俨然已是条汉子。随着美姐（杜焕荣 饰 中年美姐）与三个女儿返乡，看似忘不掉美姐，铁蛋先与其大女儿（叶兰 饰）私恋未果，却被迫娶了二女儿（葛夏 饰）作为“补偿”。最后决定跟着戏班子流浪，随他出门的却是美姐家的老三（叶兰 饰）……
　　有道是二人台不是天天有，情歌永远唱不完。

　　杰（施坦·马洛萨 Siddharth Malhotra 饰）是一个标标准准的理工男，整日里成谜于数学研究之中无法自拔。虽然如此，但杰的桃花运却并不差，他和青梅竹马迪亚（卡特莉娜·卡芙 Katrina Kaif 饰）相恋多年。迪亚深深的爱着杰，一心想要和他携手步入婚姻的殿堂，并且为此做了诸多的准备，两天之后，她的人生梦想就要实现了。
　　可是，就在这个节骨眼上，杰收到了一封来自剑桥大学的任职邀请书，邀请他成为那里的教授，这可是杰梦寐以求的理想。一边是自己的职业抱负，一边是对婚礼无限憧憬的未婚妻，杰不知道自己该做出怎样的选择。

　　这是一部关于社交恐惧和情感障碍的故事。生活在奥立冈州的海岸小镇，弗兰的办公室日常了无生趣；偶尔侧听同事之间的对话，偶尔作作白日梦，偶尔思索死亡的意义，她自我孤立的状态，仿佛幽灵般地存在于人世。直到新同事罗伯特的出现，他的友善与爱意，打乱了她孤立平静的思绪。每次交谈，每个火花都搅乱她的每一根神经。然而，唯一阻碍他们之间的，是弗兰自己。本片以诗意且静謚的手法勾勒出爱、自我认同和观看世界的独特样貌。由知名英国女演员黛西·雷德利主演，内敛低调诠释呈现出人的内心与孤寂。