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Flirting with Disaster (1996) [Movie] Eggplant.place
Flirting with Disaster
other title: Amori e disastri / Flirting with Disaster - Ein Unheil kommt selten allein
Adopted as a child, new father Mel Colpin decides he cannot name his son until he knows his birth parents, and determines to make a cross-country quest to find them. Accompanied by his wife, Nancy, and an inept yet gorgeous adoption agent, Tina, he departs on an epic road trip that quickly devolves into a farce of mistaken identities, wrong turns, and overzealous and love-struck ATF agents.
The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window [Performance] Douban
The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window
genre: theater playwright: Lorraine Hansberry
director: Anne Kauffman actor: Oscar Isaac / Rachel Brosnahan / Gus Birney / Julian De Niro / Glenn Fitzgerald
The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window depicts Sidney, an intellectual writer and his wife, Iris, who are in a difficult marriage. Sidney struggles through life in New York City's Greenwich Village neighborhood as an unsuccessful artist. His ideals cause him to avoid politics and its corruption while facing a painful home life. Iris is a struggling actress who, during the course of the play, leaves her antagonistic husband to enter the television scene. Both Sidney and Iris attack each other's self-confidence through extensive dialogue, despite their affection for each other.

Alton Scales is an African-American activist and Sidney's friend who falls in love with Iris' beautiful sister Gloria, a supposed international model. He is able to persuade Sidney to support the candidacy of Wally O’Hara despite Sidney's initial refusal to incorporate politics into his newly established artistic newspaper. Wally is a local reform politician who is appalled by the extensive drug use in Greenwich Village and the surrounding area. Sidney agrees to support him but later learns of O’Hara’s corruption; afterwards Sidney harbors significant hatred for the reform politician.

Gloria's idealistic image is shattered when Alton learns that she is a prostitute and not an international model as she and her sister Iris had insisted. Wrought with anguish at the idea of his beloved being used as a commodity, and tying it to the same ideology used to justify the African slave trade (to which he traces his roots), Alton leaves Gloria. In an act of desperation and shame, she commits suicide.

Attributing Gloria's suicide to the campaigning slogans of Wally, Sidney develops a position in opposition to the politician. This creates problems that reconcile Sidney and Iris. The play ends with a scene of Sidney and Iris in a devastated embrace at the loss of Gloria. Iris indicates with her last lines of the play that she wants to come home. Sidney makes a silent agreement that they will figure everything out. Despite the constant dark bickering that the two had throughout the play, it closes while the two are interlocked as the sun rises.[1]

The play is presented in various ways through its acts: Act I consists of dialogue, Act II consists of multiple monologues tying together Acts I and Act II, while Act III ends tragically, concluding the play.
Hamlet 版本15 [Performance] Douban
part of Performance: Hamlet
theater: Classic Stage Company director: Austin Pendleton
other title: 版本15 playwright: 莎士比亚 William Shakespeare actor: Peter Sarsgaard / Penelope Allen
哈姆雷特快要疯了。父亲由于奇怪的病症暴毙,母亲改了嫁。在那么多人之中,她偏偏嫁给了亡夫的弟弟,还在父亲过世短短一个月之后。哈姆雷特总是能在夜间看见父亲的鬼魂,他呼喊着自己被弟弟毒害,并恳求哈姆雷特替他报仇,去杀死他的继父。哈姆雷特为了复仇大计装疯卖傻,却在实施的过程中迷失了现实。世界,对他来说成了污浊的泥淖。对性的渴望和唤醒成了恐怖的深渊。周围的朋友变成了继父的耳目,为了时刻监视他。甚至奥菲利亚,他的爱人,也变成了密谋中的一颗棋子。
哈姆雷特的偏执并非全无依据,一个告密者在幕帘后对他密切监视、窃听,终于,复仇者成了凶恶的捕食者。愚蠢的行为变成了彻底的疯狂,哈姆雷特错杀了波洛涅斯——奥菲利亚的父亲。哈姆雷特的母亲和继父为他掩盖了谋杀的罪行,并有意安排他远离公众的实现。哈姆雷特的大计似乎要化为泡影。他迷失了自我,失去了人生的方向。面对这一切,奥菲利亚再也无法承受,她自杀了。当哈姆雷特的继父决定让哈姆雷特永远不再发声的时候,哈姆雷特也抓住了这手边的机会,给了继父最后的沉痛一击,迫使他臣服。
莎士比亚再现了丹麦皇室堕落的政治网络,让哈姆雷特的人生变成了彻底迷幻的悲剧。谋杀、背叛、篡权和对性的渴望成了这场战争中捍卫皇权的武器。哈姆雷特因为无法采取行动,对抗这场在皇廷中充满冷嘲热讽的游戏规则,他变得沉郁、闭塞、甚至自我伤害。他生性犹疑,在好坏两方面难以抉择,这也成为他复仇之路上难以逾越的障碍。除他之外,再无他人对皇室存疑,他的人生注定是场悲剧。
The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window (2023) [Movie]
director: Anne Kauffman actor: Oscar Isaac / Rachel Brosnahan
Hansberry invites us into Greenwich Village in the 60s, crafting a razor-sharp portrait of a diverse group of friends whose progressive dreams can’t quite match reality. At the center are Sidney and Iris Brustein, fighting to see if their marriage—with all its crackling wit, passion, and petty cruelty—can survive Sidney’s ideals. As if reaching across the decades, Hansberry’s incisive final work offers shockingly contemporary provocations.
Confess (2006) [Movie] Douban
Confess
director: Stefan C. Schaefer actor: Eugene Byrd / Ali Larter
other title: 致命终结点 / Omologia
特瑞尔是世上最声名狼藉的电脑黑客之一,他拍下那些政客和CEO们丑陋的嘴脸,将其背地里进行犯罪勾当的片段放在互联网上曝光。然而没想到的是,虽然这一举措大快人心,但同时也为他树立了很多敌人。随着牵涉案件的重要人物越来越多,政府甚至将其视为恐怖分子,特瑞尔的处境愈加艰难……