钢索危情

The film begins with the title Chorokbam filling the screen, which is amazing to see. This is the very moment at which the audience decides to trust this film without hesitation. In terms of how to fill and empty the square frame, the film is bold and skillful. Chorok, meaning green in English, is the color of fate in this movie. The problems of all the family members a hopeless father who works as a night guard, a mother who is completely exhausted with house works, a poor son who works for the disabled and their funeral ceremony are all dominated by the color, green. It is not bright or fancy but dark and scary in some sense. With attractive images and scenes, the film develops a series of worldly episodes of a family up to the level of poetic sentiment of blues and depression. (JUNG Hanseok)

Based on a concept album project written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, and the subsequent long-running Broadway performance, this film tells the story of the final 6 days in the life of Jesus Christ through the troubled eyes of Judas Iscariot. Too often mis-labeled a musical, this film is a "rock opera." There are no spoken lines, everything is sung.

淮南儒生陈绮受后母虐待，沦落于岭南某城，听人介绍到富绅邱知本家借旅费。邱不但答应，还将女儿丽玉下嫁。原来这里凡是貌美女子多半有麻疯病，到十五、六岁便需找远方男子过毒，否则就将毒发而死。丽玉不忍相害，二人新婚并未圆房。三天后丽玉赠于陈绮财物，二人惜别，陈绮回到家乡。不久丽玉毒发，被送到麻疯局。后和人逃出，丽玉来到淮南，在一尼姑庵与陈绮相见。陈绮中第，丽玉病发，不忍拖累夫家，企图自杀，深夜，一条巨大毒蛇坠入酒缸死去，丽玉一心求死，喝下毒酒，想不到以毒攻毒，疯毒全退，从此开始了与陈绮的幸福生活。

Canadian surgeon Dr. Norman Bethune (Donald Sutherland) journeys 1,500 miles into China to reach Mao Zedong's eighth route Army in the Wu Tai mountains where he will build hospitals, provide care, and train medics. Flashbacks narrate the earlier events of his life: a bout with tuberculosis at the Trudeau sanatorium; the self-administration of an experimental pneumothorax; the invention of operative instruments; his fascination with Socialism; a journey into medical Russia; and the founding of a mobile plasma-transfusion unit in war-torn Spain. Bethune twice married and twice divorced his wife Frances (Dame Helen Mirren), who chooses abortion over child-rearing in her unstable marriage. By 1939, Bethune had been dismissed from his Montreal Hospital for taking unconventional risks, and from his volunteer position in Spain for his chronic problems of drinking and womanizing. As his friend states: "China was all that was left." Even there, Bethune confidently ignores the advice of Chinese officials until heavy casualties make him realize his mistake and lead him to a spectacular apology.