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影片讲述了在一个没有被历史所记载的朝代，因为它很短，而在这短短的十余年中，相传勾陈大帝留在凡间用来镇妖封煞的镇妖石被天火所毁，百妖肆出，从此举国上下都在忙活着研究同一件事儿，如何降妖。影片不仅呈现出了中国传统文化的艺术魅力和现实主义，还通过人和妖两族的争斗，暗喻了人和大自然之间的关系。

IN SHANGHAIIn Shanghai Lou Ye, 2001short FilmIn Shanghai or the eyes of a Chinese director of his city, Shanghai, Communist economic center , but also megalopolis with many faces ...Lou Ye is a great filmmaker. After having the success that we know for the sublime Suzhou River, the young director of the sixth generation is coupled to the design of this short film about Shanghai, the city of his heart , beautiful and multicultural . Camera in hand ( for lovers is a Sony DSR- PD150 DVCam ... ) for subjective , Lou Ye rhyme begins this urban plan by a girl asleep on a bed. Slowly the camera moves out of the suburb where this unknown young woman is given the arms of Morpheus , better visit this city that is Shanghai. The narrator who is also the hero says in voice-over that he loves this megalopolis . It focuses on the residents of these neighborhoods without cloth and without resources where most of the native population of Shanghai Lodge . Indeed the streets Zongshan Donglu which contains the Bund, Pudong, the famous Oriental Pearl is not the stock market and everyone. We must go farther Jingan District to discover the social wealth of this city . Why attach immense cold and nervous architectures while the Shanghai Blood flows through the veins of its rural ? It's a little message Lou Ye through this short film ."You can guess who they are, but we can never really know "Lou Ye eradicates a rare cinematic power of this often precarious and old people waiting on the bus every morning to go to work and make the Chinese economy humming .The old streets of the city like the nearby temple Cheung Hong Bund to the bank of the Huangpu , the filmmaker does not recognize the city. As if all these steel towers of the 21st century had absorbed the social essence of the " Paris of the East" .Lou Ye then takes us on a visit to the arcades , discos, clubs, dances, flashy locations and disconnected from the reality of ordinary people in the middle of poverty which is near workers and street vendors where people drown their defecation in water by putting the edge of an old tub ... This is a new look for the Western .Finally, after making stops in a dangerous Shanghai streets by night , the hero wakes up in the morning director in a corner near buildings unsafe and fixed on the face of a shy child , concluding : "The only thing that matters is Shanghai . "By these words Mr. Lou Ye, I bear you my esteem .

武七（赵丹 饰），是山东堂邑人，7岁丧父，与母亲乞讨为生，他想读书，靠打把式卖艺凑够钱，却遭学堂先生打骂，断了念头，母亲又因病去世。守孝完毕，武七出外做佣，经工友周大介绍，来张举人家当佣工，因他老实肯干，屡屡遭人欺负，只得婢女小桃帮助。小桃身世凄惨，7年前被逃亡的父母寄养在张举人家。后者篡改了卖身契，逼小桃就范。小桃的反抗最终失败，而武七的关心成为她最大的慰藉。某日，武七的老乡捎话，说其婶病重急用钱。憨厚的武七向张举人支取3年工钱，却被后者以假账相欺，武七争辩，反被诬为讹赖，遭到毒打，幸好小桃舍身相救，并请来了周大，才帮助武七逃走。武七气恨难消，不食不语，病倒3日。周大因此得罪张举人，被后者勾结官府判罪入狱，小桃也被迫卖给他人为妻。小桃挂记武七，在周大表弟李四指点下，终于见到武七。却没想到，吃尽文盲苦头的武七，立下了宏大的志愿——兴办义学……

阿杰（刘青云 饰）是一个怀才不遇的年轻音乐人，生活潦倒不得不独自住进了一个破旧的单位内，终日都沉默寡言。此时他也遇到了在庙街街头艺人的女儿阿敏（袁咏仪 饰），阿敏虽然自小便患有骨癌，但她还是乐观开朗的面对自己的人生，她对生命充满希望的态度感染了阿杰，令他找回了失去的自信，在事业上也看到了曙光。两人渐渐情愫互生，就当一切看来都十分顺利之际，阿敏的病情却日渐恶化，使她失去了往日的勇敢及坚强，变得暴躁起来。最后阿敏得到了阿杰与亲戚朋友的鼓励，可是阿敏体内的病魔还是不肯放手。