来自南太平洋萨摩亚群岛的体育记者杜克（约翰尼·德普 Johnny Depp 饰）和他的律师朋友刚佐博士（本尼西奥·德·托尔 Benicio Del Tore 饰）一起开车前往拉斯维加斯，厂花寻找他们的“美国梦”。一路上，厂花他们带了大量毒品和酒精，也遇到形形色色的人，药物作用下，许多迷乱和癫狂的画面出现，让他们分不清幻觉和现实，到底哪个更残破，哪个更肮脏扭曲。两个人的混沌，加上拉斯维加斯本身的纸醉金迷，“美国梦”似乎遥不可及，两个人留下垃圾场一样的五星级酒店房间，无法停止迷幻的路途……
回复 :卖座喜剧导演汤姆·沙迪亚克脑部因意外受创，一度徘徊于生死边缘，期间他对探索人生产生浓厚兴趣，痊愈后决定与四人摄制队飞往各地，去访问不同界别的杰出人士，包括作家、学者、宗教领袖及科学家等，重点探讨两大基本问题：一，我们的世界有何不妥？二，我们可以做什么？本纪录片除探讨人性及我们对周遭的影响，亦带出“只要每人踏出一小步，便能改变世界”的正面讯息。
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回复 :本片通过摄影师RigbyGray的镜头，讲述了几对母子之间的故事。
回复 :The subject of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub’s Der Tod des Empedokles (The Death of Empedocles, 1987) is the Greek pre-Socratic philosopher Empedocles (c. 490 BC – 430 BC), who lived in the Greek colony of Agrigentum in Sicily. His theories are mentioned in several of Plato’s dialogues. He maintained that all matter is made up of four irreducible elements: water, earth, air and fire. A mystic and a poet, he is considered to be the founder of classical rhetoric. He is also thought to be the last Greek philosopher to write in verse; two fragments of his works survive: Katharmoi (Purifications) and Peri Phuseôs (On Nature). An advocate of democracy, he came into conflict with his fellow citizens of Agrigentum and, as result, was banished with his young disciple, Pausanius. When he was asked to return, he preferred to commit suicide by throwing himself into the active volcano at Mount Aetna.The German writer Friedrich Hölderlin wrote two versions of Der Tod des Empedokles in 1798 and 1800, and a final third version in 1820, all three ultimately unfinished. They were conceived as five-act tragedies and all three differ in plot. According to Michael Hamburger, Hölderlin’s English-language translator,the main reason why Hölderlin finished no version of the play must be that he remained too closely identified with Empedocles, at the very period in his life when his own view of the poet as philosopher, prophet and priest – and as tragic hero – was subject to perpetual crisis and re-examination.Huillet-Straub’s The Death of Empedocles is based on Hölderlin’s first version (the longest of the three), whereas Black Sin is based on the third version.
