混沌爱诗

　　骑士Bořek寻找他失踪的儿子。小简离家出走，被孩子们的十字军东征的故事所激发。他父亲的十字军东征是他进入自己潜意识的旅程，在那里他被迫面对他最大的恐惧。

　　影片讲述来自格拉斯的单亲母亲前往纳什维尔实现乡村音乐巨星之梦的故事。

　　炎炎夏季，年事已高的女演员森本蓉子（杉本春子 饰）来到蓼科高原的山上避暑。迎接她的是帮助打理山中别墅已有30年时间的农妇丰子（乙羽信子 饰）及其女儿明美（濑尾智美 饰）。蓉子得知83岁的老园丁一年前自杀，并留下“就活到这吧”的遗言。谜样的话语让众人唏嘘不已。
　　不久，蓉子年轻时的演员朋友登美江（朝雾镜子 饰）和丈夫藤八郎（观世荣夫 饰）前来拜访，登美江患有老年痴呆，却执意再见好友一面，几个老年人度过了一段刺激有趣的美好时光。
　　数日后登美江夫妇离去，而蓉子亦在不经意间知晓了一个埋藏20多年的秘密……

　　冒险始于1906年的旧金山，文学评论家汉弗莱在萨克拉门托渡轮。此后不久，在大雾中轮船与一货运船舶相撞。汉弗莱在水中漂流，半死不活最后被帆船“鬼”救起。 这个猎人“鬼”听令于拉森，拉森将太平洋航行看作最喜欢的狩猎场，他是残酷的队长，没有任何同情心，他愤怒地拒绝把汉弗莱救上岸。为了生存，汉弗莱必须尽快适应航海世界无情而粗暴的法则。

　　这是一部谍中谍式的电影，不过主角换成了狙击手。美国退役优秀狙击手鲍勃（马克•沃尔伯格 Mark Wahlberg 饰）正在阿肯色州享受退役后的休闲时光，不料，平地生波，他的前上司前来拜访他，希望他能接受一项新的任务――在总统街头演讲那天充当隐形狙击手暗中保护总统。虽然十万分不情愿，但禁不住上司的游说，鲍勃最终答应了。总统演讲那天，鲍勃正在仔细观察着四周情况时，突然会场遭到枪手袭击，总统身边的衣索比亚主教被杀。鲍勃被当成暗杀者遭遇警方追捕。心知成了替罪羔羊，鲍勃在身中两枪的情况下奋力逃走了。鲍勃此时唯一的出路就是找出幕后的真凶，为自己洗刷罪名。

　　Olga and Maks are 15 years away. She is a successful woman with an established position, the mother of an adult daughter, he is a handsome young man who enjoys his life in a handful and lives only in the moment. It might seem that these two different worlds will never meet, and yet fate put them in the way.

　　库尔特（汤姆·希林 Tom Schilling 饰）的姨母曾经被关进过集中营，最终在纳粹医生卡尔（塞巴斯蒂安·科赫 Sebastian Koch 饰）的折磨下不幸死去。虽然库尔特幸运的在柏林墙建成之前逃往了西德，但他的整个童年时代都生活在纳粹的阴影之下，这给他的人格带来了极大的创伤。
　　之后，库尔特进入了杜塞道夫美术学院就读，无法走出过去阴影的他将内心的绝望和伤痛都挥洒在了画布之上。一次偶然中，库尔特邂逅了名为艾利（葆拉·贝尔 Paula Beer 饰）的女孩，美丽活泼的艾利渐渐的治愈了库尔特内心的伤痕，当两人鼓起勇气想要将关系再推进一步时，却遭到了艾利父亲的强烈反对。

　　一个被报社解雇的作家因生活窘迫不得不去车场工作，过上了与过去完全不同的生活。他所工作的车场位于瑞典马尔摩的泊车中心，成千上万辆被标记的车整整齐齐地排列在车场中。车场里的工人大部分是移民，他们都不信任这个新来的瑞典人。所有工人都不以名字相称，而是通过一系列工号来区别对方， 作家是11811号。在这样压抑的新环境下，他逐渐失去了自己曾拥有的一切，甚至是由他抚养的儿子的尊重。

　　井之头五郎（松重丰 饰）受横滨某电影院馆长的委托，将“某个电影的胶卷”送到八王子那里。本应作为年末的工作缴纳而接受的，但是所到之处都有意料之外的请求。无法拒绝的五郎被卷入意想不到的事态，被迫前往长野。五郎和爱车的小伙伴向北出发，但是年末的休假被取消，长途驾驶总之肚子饿了… 那样的五郎在目的地遇到的极致的美食是？然后，五郎接触了在那片土地上遇到的人们，知道了电影胶片中所包含的感情…

　　泰米尔那都邦南部一个偏远的小村庄Podiyankulam有一项特殊的传统：谁能从悬崖上一跃而起将对岸抛出的鱼劈成两半，谁就能拥有“镇村宝剑”（Village Sword）；选择接受该挑战但却无法将鱼砍成两半的人则会被村民斩首。1997年，一位名叫Karnan的青年男子腾空而起，成了宝剑的主人。
　　Podiyankulam和其隔壁的Melur村颇有宿怨，前者的村民来自更低种姓并因此常年收到压迫，故事的起因，就由一辆不愿经过Podiyankulam的巴士说起。在Melur村民的政治影响下，Podiyankulam村多次上书要求在该村设立巴士站的情愿被拒，村民们想要外出就不得去去Melur村的巴士站等候，且在等候巴士的过程中长期遭到Melur村民的欺辱和骚扰。
　　数次巴士拒载事件发生后，以Karnan为首的村民砸烂了一辆在他们眼前拒载一位孕妇的巴士，此举在村民议事会上引发诸多争议，但最后村长决定全村人将共同保护为了村民利益出头的Karnan等人，出面与警方交涉。
　　巴士被砸后，巴士运输公司的老板和一众警察来到Podiyankulam存兴师问罪，迫于其他村民压力，村长被迫供出Karnan等人的藏身之处。但考虑到商业利益，巴士老板决定撤诉并不再追究责任。但一位名叫Kannabiran的警长却在执行此任务时被村民们不卑不亢的态度所激怒——农民的儿子也配叫“皇帝”？并暗下决心要给Karnan一个教训。
　　日后警方传唤闹事村民去警局问话，为了保护Karnan，村中几位年长的老者自告奋勇前去警局报告和签字。但Kannabiran却用棍子暴打所有老者，重伤大家后把他们仍在警察局的天台上暴晒等死。在警局外等候一日一夜的Karnan等人见形势不对，冲入警察局救出了他的爷爷和其他几位长者，并将警察局砸了稀巴烂。
　　再次受辱后的Kannabiran警长调用了更多的警力计划捣毁村庄，而村民们则在长者们手上回归后意识到警察并不是因为巴士损坏而暴打他们，而是因为他们作为低种姓农民却在警察问询他们时抬头挺胸地stand tall，全村人也在Karnan的带领下决定奋起反击。
　　警察如期而至，而此刻Karnan却因为收到了军队职位的录取信而在全村的劝说下已经启程前去履职。攻破村民的抵抗后，警察进入到每一个村民家打砸抢，Karnan的爷爷为了保护屋内正在生产的村妇，自焚后冲进施暴的警察中。
　　不远处，挎着宝剑的Karnan策马前来，他以宝剑为武器砍倒数个警察，并将Kannabiran关进一间房屋内作为俘虏，而被俘虏后的Kannabiran警长仍然不断对Karnan口出侮辱，并威胁他如果对方敢动他一根汗毛，整个村庄将会被夷为平地。Karnan最终一剑将警长的首级砍下。
　　这是一个有关荣誉、传统、正义和生命力的真实故事。

　　「澤水困」，引自《易經》四十七卦卦象─澤中無水，象徵著陷入困境，需靜候時機之意。如同四十七卦異卦相疊的結構，故事自兩條敘事開始延展，一邊是在山中經營民宿的老紀，一邊是入住民宿的琴。琴到來的這日，老紀將房子交給她後便離開了。走出深山的老紀來到醫院，看似是要照護一名肢體障礙青年，實則卻百般粗暴地對待他，在少年的苦苦哀求下，老紀於是帶著他前往一處與世隔絕的海上沙洲，夜裡，少年唱起了一首綠島新生之歌。另一邊，一個人住在山裡的琴，被突然出現的日本女子趕出了民宿。而後日本女子遇見了另一位旅人─騰，她讓他住進了民宿旁的帳篷，曖昧情愫逐漸在兩人之間滋生。那晚，騰以布袋戲演出新編的西遊記，戲中，孫悟空變出了分身孫空悟，但孫空悟卻不聽本尊的命令，兩隻猴王大打出手。琴與日本女子，老紀與青年，孫悟空與孫空悟，在這個月圓的深夜裡，他們面面相對，而塵封多年的仇恨，終於將要一次爆發…。

　　In the time of Counter-Reformation, a miller and his son come under investigation by a priest of the Inquisition, when rumors spread that their prosperity comes from working with the Devil.
　　The Devil's Trap is a film directed by František Vlá?il, based on a novel by Alfréd Technik, adapted by František A. Dvorák and Miloš Kratochvíl. It was the first of three historical dramas that Vlá?il made during the Czech New Wave (technically he isn't really a part of the New Wave, however these films were made during the same era of artistic freedom), preceding his more well known Marketa Lazarová (1967) and Valley of the Bees (1968).
　　Set in the late 16th Century during the Catholic Reformation, in the Moravian Karst, situated in what is now the Eastern Czech Republic, it tells the tale of a miller (Vítezslav Vejrazka), and his son Jan (Vít Olmer), who come under suspicion and are investigated by a Jesuit priest of the Inquisition (Miroslav Macháchek), when rumors of witchcraft are spread by the local regent (Cestmír Randa), who is jealous of the miller's prosperity and degree of respect among the local populace.
　　As expected from Vlá?il, this film is a stunning experience all the way through. From the opening shot, an ominous manipulation of perspective with a close up of a mangled figure of Christ dominating the foreground against a tiny figure in black walking along the horizon, to the breathtaking confrontational finale inside the vast stalactite filled Karst caverns, it is a wonderful display of visual mastery.
　　Maybe not quite as impressive as Marketa Lazarová, but still full of astonishing imagery. As seen from unique angles and distinct points of view which highlight the director's remarkable sense of awareness of framing, motion, and positioning on the emotional and dramatic tone of the scene. The most memorable being a repeated shot where the camera is suspended and launched with speed through the air towards the miller's door.
　　The story here is a simple one and I would say more accessible than his later works. With a conventional structure emphasized as much by its plot and characters, than by its expressionistic cinematography or authentic historical detail. The events play out without much surprise, and there is a strong underlying, almost supernatural, mysterious aspect that is left unresolved, in fact barely explored, which is slightly disappointing, but only because it's so fascinating that I wish there was more.
　　Acting is great all around. Particularly the villains: Miroslav Macháchek as the priest, casting a sinister and imposing shadow wherever he goes, and Cestmír Randa as the weasel like regent behind all the persecution. While Vít Olmer brings a charismatic leading man presence in his role as the miller's son Jan, in love with the lovely orphan girl Martina (Karla Chadimová), who becomes a dangerous object of rivalry between Jan and other young men of the village.
　　The film also features the evocative music of Zden?k Liška (perhaps the most prolific composer of the Czech New Wave). In this his second of eleven collaborations with Vlá?il, his compositions are used sparingly, but to great effect, complimenting but never overpowering a scene. The best example of which can be heard in an amazingly shot celebration and dance sequence at the end of the second act.
　　The Devil's Trap might not be a masterpiece, but it is still a strong effort, with a fascinating straightforward story and a glorious historical setting captured beautifully by Vlá?il's unmistakable visual prowess. A fine work that would also be the perfect starter plate to prepare yourself for the challenging feast of Marketa Lazarová or The Valley of the Bees. It even has an easy to digest running time. It's therefore puzzling why this gem remains largely overlooked and ignored.