胡敏明
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:The Doll is an adaptation of the novel, The Doll (novel) by Bolesław Prus, which is regarded by many as one of the finest Polish novels ever written and, along with Pharaoh (novel), made Bolesław Prus a potential candidate for the Nobel Prize in literature. The influence of Émile Zola is evident, and some have compared the novel to Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert; both were Prus's contemporaries. The movie, however, may be more compared to Stendhal's Le Rouge et le Noir, (The Red and the Black).The Doll constitutes a panorama of life in Warsaw between 1878 and 1879, and at the same time is a subtle story of three generations of Polish idealists, their psychological complications, their involvement in the history of the nineteenth century, social dramas, moral problems and the experience of tragic existence. At the same time this story describes the disintegration of social relationships and the growing separation of a society whose aristocratic elite spreads the models of vanity and idleness. In the bad air of a backward country, anti-Semitic ideas are born, valuable individuals meet obstacles on their way, and scoundrels are successful.This poetic love story follows a nouveau riche merchant, Stanislaw Wokulski, through a series of trials and tribulations occasioned by his obsessive passion for an aristocratic beauty, Izabela Lecka, played by the famous Polish actress, Beata Tyszkiewicz.Plot:As a descendant of an impoverished Polish noble family, young Wokulski is forced to work as a waiter at Hopfer's, a Warsaw restaurant, while dreaming of a life in science. After taking part in the failed 1863 Uprising against Tsarist Russia, he is sentenced to exile in Siberia. On eventual return to Warsaw, he becomes a salesman at Mincel's haberdashery. Marrying the late owner's widow (who eventually dies), he comes into money and uses it to set up a partnership with a Russian merchant he had met while in exile. The two merchants go to Bulgaria during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78, and Wokulski makes a fortune supplying the Russian Army. The enterprising Wokulski now proves a romantic at heart, falling in love with Izabela, daughter of the vacuous, bankrupt aristocrat, Tomasz Łęcki. In his quest to win Izabela, Wokulski begins frequenting theatres and aristocratic salons; and to help her financially distressed father, founds a company and sets the aristocrats up as shareholders in his business.The indolence of these aristocrats, who secure with their pensions, are too lazy to undertake new business risks, frustrates Wokulski. His ability to make money is respected but his lack of family and social rank is condescended to. Because of his "help" (in secret) to Izabela's impecunious but influential father, the girl becomes aware of his affection. In the end she consents to accept him, but without true devotion or love.(wikipedia)
彭靖惠
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:九個生活在同一天空下的人,交錯在一間小小的茶餐廳,各自發展他們不同的遭遇。本片以全新的手法,帶給觀眾一幕幕動人的片段!!\r茶餐廳,一個不分階級的地方。每天進進出出的人可謂各式其式,應有盡有,而當中亦包含許多不同的故事……\r小小(陳昭昭)是個「道姑」,經常因服用了毒品而不能自拔,當她遇上來找晦氣的兩個初出茅爐死飛女慈雲山Twins(駱樂、Maggie),結果又會如何呢?\r蘭嬸(羅蘭),每朝上班前會背著半身癱瘓的丈夫到公園晨晨運,晚上又帶一碗湯回家給他。誰又料到蘭嬸一直渴望解脫,離開己無舊情的另一半,因此,她不斷帶給患糖尿病的丈夫甜食……\r駱Sir(駱應鈞)是個熱心查案的警探,可是他不懂處理戀情,最終妻子紅杏出牆,而他也因欠下大賭債而自盡。欣欣發現其父徐老闆(徐錦江)最近行為有異,懷疑他偷歡,卻原來徐老闆的妻子才是有外遇之一方,多年來為了女兒一直忍讓的他,終於忍出病來……