曾经堕落

本片是以决定废校、即将拆除校舍的地方高中为舞台的青春恋爱电影。本片描绘的是与世界上所有的“学校”和“恋爱”告别的4名少女在毕业典礼之前的两天所发生的故事。

清光绪年间，山河动荡，外忧内患，中国处在生死存亡的一线间。光绪皇帝（舒适 饰）当朝，却因慈禧太后（唐若青 饰）垂帘听政，身不由己，宛如傀儡一般。户部尚书翁同龢习光绪学经解义，并灌输启蒙思想，使光绪萌发变法之心；而光绪宠妃珍妃（周璇 饰）亦每日存下银两，以作军资。甲午惨败，翁同龢开缺回乡，临别前向光绪举荐康有为。戊戌年（1898年），光绪与维新派展开变法，却受到慈禧为首的顽固派的抵制，双方矛盾愈演愈烈。太后一方定下计谋，企图借天津阅兵之际废掉光绪；而维新一派亦相时而动，派出袁世凯（罗维 饰）刺杀荣禄，围执太后……

This film is about haunting memories of Asia's late 20th-century modernization. The story departs from a 1965 United States embargo on the hair trade, known as the "Communist Hair Ban". Yet, in every wig resides a ghost from the imperial past.Wigs were vital for the rise of the Asian economy in the post-war era. In the heyday of the 1960s, it was the number four export in Hong Kong's export-orientated industrialization. Between Mao's China - the largest source of hair supplies, and the insatiable Western market, Hong Kong functioned as the gateway. In 1965, U.S. Treasury Department imposed an embargo on "Asiatic hair", to cut off foreign currency to Communist China in the hair trade. The highly racialized category of "Asiatic hair" was later revised as "communist hair", to enable the wig industry to develop in U.S. allies including mainly South Korea and Japan, which led to a significant reconfiguration of light industry in East Asia. Departing from the moment of the communist hair ban, through stories of movement, diaspora and migration, this project examines the role of Hong Kong as a transient space that mediates and sanitizes the connection between different worlds, and the relationship between U.S. Imperialism and East Asia order in the Cold War era.Produced by: Ruoyao Jane YaoDirector of Photography: Yavuz Selim IslerCameraman (Hong Kong): Fai WanSound Recording: Franco van der LindeCasting Director: Sai-wang LauMakeup: Ika KartikaColor Grading: Bob LemmVoice-over:Jia Zhao, Hamza Junaid, Tommy TseCast:Zoenie Liwen Deng, Ruoyao Jane Yao, Zoe Tang, Michael de Ross, Sidney Vereycken, Sai-wang Lau, Jo-Lene OngProduced by:Geodesic Studio, Vines FilmsThanks toWAAG Society, Amsterdam16mm Film Transfer and ScanningAndec Filmtechnik, Berlin

富翁曾和度（谐音“真糊涂”）吝啬 成性，其子曾伯稼（谐音“真败家” ）热心地方公益，施济贫寒。曾和度 忧虑伯稼因此败坏家业，诱逼他吸食 鸦片，以达到闭门守业的目的。从此 伯稼终日沉溺烟榻，意志消沉，不理 家业。曾和度见此后果，痛心家业难 保，恼恨而死。伯稼妻张氏，屡劝丈 夫戒烟反遭辱骂。不久，伯稼子误将 鸦片当作糖果吞食，中毒死亡。伯稼 之母眼见丈夫去世，孙儿夭亡，悲愤 交加，也一病而殁。曾家店伙卜遥莲 （谐音“不要脸”）和梅志实（谐音 “没知识”）乘伯稼办理丧事，侵吞 大量财物，暗中在外挥霍。几年时间 ，曾家财产已消耗殆尽，而伯稼仍每 日依恋烟毒，不思悔改。张氏因苦劝 无效，饮恨投河自尽。张氏死后，卜 遥莲和梅志实乘机变卖曾家全部产业 ，勾结婢女将伯稼之女真真卖入娼门 ，又骗去伯稼赖以生活的一笔保险金 。从此，伯稼流落街头，拉人力车糊 口。一日，其女真真坐伯稼车出堂差 ，父女相见，百感交集，未及倾诉别 后之情，即被鸨母驱开。伯稼后悔莫 及，饥寒难忍，倒毙于城门之下。