米兰达是威尼斯一家酒吧的老板,丈夫在二战中战死。米兰达有个情人是议会的老议员。老头经常弄点项链什么的首饰哄着米兰达与他幽会,每次又力不从心,还总信誓旦旦地想娶米兰达。小米只是嘲弄地说他是自己感情生活的调味品。
冬天,小米又找了个情人,是个卡车司机,还把货柜破改成了卧室,每次途经酒吧,总要跟小米在卡车上缠绵——但卡车司机是个咸粗鲁的家伙,小米认为他根本不懂爱,因此也不愿意嫁给他。
为弘扬民族正气,精武英雄陈真(甄子丹 饰)当年在上海虹口道场击杀日本武术高手。在此之后他更名改姓,背井离乡,远赴法国务工。一战后陈真化名齐天元,重返阔别已久的祖国,并以实业家的身份结识了上海大亨刘禹天(黄秋生 饰)及性感妖艳的夜总会女郎KIKI(舒淇 饰)。刘张扬跋扈,大发战争财,但尚存中国人的骨气;KIKI表面单纯,实则是日本女间谍,长期潜伏夜总会搜集情报。一战虽然结束,但战争的阴影远远没有散去。陈真加入秘密的抗日组织,并希望争取到刘禹天的支持。与此同时,以皇军大佐力石猛(木幡龙 饰)为首的暗杀军团开始向爱国志士痛下杀手。 鱼龙混杂、暗流涌动的上海滩,已是黑云压城,暴雨将至……
Based on the novel by Karel Capek, the prominent Czech writer of the early 20th century who coined the word robot for his play R.U.R., the story revolves around a discovery of Krakatit - a powerful explosive - by Prokop, an experimental scientist who, following an accidental explosion in his lab, slips in and out of delirium. When he realises that, in a delirious period, he has given the formula for making Krakatit to one of his colleagues, he tries to find the man, who does not realize how dangerous a thing Krakatit is. In the process, he nearly gives his discovery away again to foreign interests, a group of anarchists, and even greater forces of darkness...
“For two years starting in 2020, this work has been forming along the edges of disquiet and premonition, in fragments and intensities, through wandering and not-staying. It has tried to find language for and ways across the bizarre upheavals of social and political values with the rise of fascism in India and a global pandemic. It has insisted on being amongst the things that keep from falling apart. Filmed in Delhi, these incomplete fictions are of the people, places, and protests that keep the language of hatred at bay and absorb the city’s grief and euphoria. In them are the continuous echoes of a violent and tenuous present. The false closures and tenuous associations in this video/essay compose a timeline of the city at an angle through the time of this work. There is a shadowy sense of a protagonist who un-dreams it all; a stranger, who it turns out, is no stranger at all.” Priya Sen