1975年11月2日,意大利著名导演帕索里尼的尸体在罗马近郊奥斯蒂海滩被发现,死前明显受到过暴力攻击。在此之前他刚刚完成那部常被评为世界十大禁片之首的《索多玛的120天》。由于凶手被传闻是一名17岁的男妓,这个悲剧被染上香艳色彩,也有人猜测这位意见领袖的死亡完全是政治阴谋,而事情真相至今仍是个谜。
影片择取的正是帕索里尼(威廉·达福 Willem Dafoe)被害前的最后一天。导演平静安宁的和心爱的母亲、前男友、还有《索多玛120天》的女演员用餐,与亲密的朋友聚会并分享最近的电影构思,然后驾着车穿梭在男妓聚集区搜寻一夜风流的目标。费拉拉将帕索里尼被害前正在创作下一部作品——一部充斥着大量性爱描写、探讨宇宙与真理的影片手稿,大胆的用自己的方式表现了出来,与纪实部分一起完成了颠覆性的叙事。
英国探险家珀西·福斯特(查理·汉纳姆 Charlie Hunnam 饰)深入神秘的南美洲亚马逊丛林探险,竟发现未知的文明生活迹象,他回到英国公开这个意义深远的重大发现,却被当成笑话嘲弄,没有人愿意相信他的话。在爱妻尼娜(西耶娜·米勒 Sienna Miller 饰)无怨无悔的支持下,福斯特决心带领儿子杰克(汤姆·霍兰德 Tom Holland 饰)重返亚马逊丛林,寻找古文明存在的证据,一行人却离奇消失,从此再无任何音讯,成为史上最神秘又悬疑的失踪事件。
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)