An elaborate Hollywood retelling of the Bible stories narrated by the film's director John Huston. We open with the Creation of the World and arrive at the Garden of Eden with Adam and Eve (Michael Parks and Ulla Bergryd) and continue on to Cain (Richard Harris) and the murder of Abel (Franco Nero). Next, we visit Noah (John Huston) and his ark with its spectacular flood sequence. Then we come to the story of Nimrod, King of Babel (Stephen Boyd), the emergence of man's vanity and the heights to which it could aspire if unchecked. Finally we cover Abraham (George C. Scott), a mystic who spoke personally with God, a leader of men, a builder of nations, a pioneer and a warrior and Sarah (Ava Gardner). At the time she conceived her first child, the event being forecast by an Angel of the Lord. Three such Heavenly Messengers (all portrayed by Peter O'Toole) appeared in the course of events which befell Abraham and Sarah.
杀手世界杯影片的精彩影评
自己を犠牲にしてまで主君に仕える日本人の被虐的精神構造を、江戸時代から現代までの7つのエピソードで描くオムニバス映画。第13回ベルリン映画祭で金熊賞を獲得した。物語は現代に生きるサラリーマン・飯倉が、ダムの入札をめぐって上役から競争会社の情報を盗むように言われ、スパイをしたその恋人が自殺未遂をするところから始まる。映画はそこから飯倉の先祖にさかのぼり、主君や国家のために犠牲になって死ぬ飯倉家七代の残酷な歴史を綴っていく。藩主の落度を被っての切腹に始まり、殉死、不義密通の濡れ衣で男根を切られたり、老中に娘を献上したり、戦争で死んだりと、異様なエピソードの数々に日本人の原形が重ね合わされる。