Adam was raise like a normal boy until he bled his first menstrual period. Adam was born with two genitals, an intersex who finds himself in a painful transformation that takes him into the ambiguities of fate and desires.
TV film of Steven Berkoff's stage adaption of Kafka's famous story in which a young man who is the sole financial supporter of his family until he awakes one morning in the form of a giant dung beetle and thereby becoming a nuisance to his family, who must now learn to rely upon themselves.
《变形》是一首献给地球的诗,影片把握了地球的脉搏、见证了巨变的一瞬:旧世界的死亡、新世界的出世。影片真切地描摹了全球环境危机。森林大火危及人类社区、物种消失、生态系统崩溃等等。
題材都是現成的,一個是Mordecai Richler的成名作,一個是弗兰茨.卡夫卡的同名小說改編。Caroline Leaf在玻璃上灑上海灘沙作畫,每一個畫面拍攝兩個frames後進行修改,再拍攝下一個畫面。這種作畫方式的特點是不能夠修改錯誤,如果犯了錯誤,別無選擇只能夠跟它繼續相處。毀掉重畫是不可能的。所以這種作畫方式的本質很像是自由寫作(free writing),作者讓筆自己把意念傳遞到紙上,如果出了錯誤就順其自然。也就是說,要有一點禪意。雖然說是作畫方式的要求,但隱約在畫風裡也可以讀到一點。
如果有一天你从睡梦中醒来发现自己“变形”了,你会怎么做?
这时电话铃声接连写起,里面没有说话的声音,只有削铅笔、写字和擦除笔记的声音。男人大多数都能心领神会,他按照指示完成工作,即便有时会有不同的意见,也完全不被对方所理会。
One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug. As he lifted his head up a little, he realised the real form of the criature and its numerous legs. “What’s happened to me,” he thought. (Indie Lisboa 2005 website)
When Europe skips class to climb aboard an eight-wheel truck with a magnetic young man named Jupiter, little does she know of the journey of initiation that lies ahead of her.
"As a child, I experienced the pleasure of fiction thanks to my elder brother who would read Ovid's Metamorphoses to me in secret. I can still see us in that room we shared, him sitting cross-legged with ...
突然的变化,让二人搞砸所有事情并气走了妈妈。经过努力,蛋蛋明白了学习的目的并取得了好成绩,而父母也学会了尊重和信任自己的孩子。