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Can I Get a Witness? tells the story of a mother and daughter in a near-future world where huge sacrifices are made to maintain life on Earth. With its resources swallowed by e-waste and overpopulation, the world is experiencing an anthropogenic collapse. To manage, technological advances are shunned. Nobody has electricity and only people with exceptions are permitted cars. Most importantly, there is also a collective agreement that nobody is allowed to live beyond the age of 50. Oh’s Ellie lives with her teenage daughter Kiah (Keira Jang), who is starting her first day as a Documenter, an important role in this new world order. She uses her artistic gifts — beautifully conjured in animations — to draw the dying ceremonies, since printing and photography have been banned. Kiah is paired with Daniel (Joel Oulette), the young man who performs the contractual elements of each person’s end-of-life ceremony. He matter-of-factly provides the packages a person can choose, sets them up when the time comes, and performs the burials. But his new coworker is having a hard time handling the emotional impacts of the job.
影片以重复加碎片式的感官叙事手法,讲述了年迈且身患疾病的安东尼(安东尼·霍普金斯 Anthony Hopkins 饰)正在面临一项艰难的人生选择——是搬到养老院还是接受女儿寻找的新护工。在这个过程中,安东尼发现自己仿佛进入了一场奇怪的时空之旅,错乱的记忆和时间线交织出一段段匪夷所思的故事,而一个个陌生又熟悉的人也让他陷入迷茫。影片根据法国小说家兼剧作家佛罗莱恩·泽勒的舞台剧《父亲》改编。
90年代的哈城,刚刑满释放的徐铁(包贝尔 饰)偶遇装哑的舞女百灵(张梦露 饰),两人也在几次偶遇和深夜相伴中渐生情愫。直到除夕夜的温暖,让他们相互靠近,却又因现实隔阂,家人误解而屡屡拉扯。百灵为父还债的秘密账本,让徐铁读懂了她的苦衷,雷力的迫害更是将两人推向绝境,徐铁以命相搏救出被囚的百灵,终赢来家人祝福。这对孤独灵魂,在世俗重压下,以真爱焐热了彼此的人生。
2001年11月,阿富汗加兹尼省。一支来自美国的特种部队小分队与CIA探员本杰明·凯恩斯(乔纳斯·鲍尔 Jonas Ball 饰)在此碰头,他们要在当地寻找一个名叫莫罕默德•阿班的男人。在线人阿布尔(Chems-Eddine Zinoune 饰)的引导下,他们来到据说莫罕默德藏身的山区。这里流传着恐怖的传说,在半个多世纪前英国就曾有一支上万人的部队在此地凭空消失。从特种队员踏入这片陌生领域的那一刻起,恐怖离奇的事件便如影随形。队员们接连失踪,他们仿佛走入一条通往黑暗世界的不归之路…… 本片荣获2008年纽约恐怖电影节观众奖最佳摄影奖、2008年墨西哥圣塔菲电影节Milagro奖最佳摄影奖。