白桦林中的哨所

荣誉：1963年威尼斯国际电影节圣马可金狮奖1963奥伯豪森国际短片电影节最优秀奖及其他奖项导演点评：本片可以说是《人类动物园》的变奏作品。两者的主题是一致的，本作同样也使用了武满彻先生的音乐磁带“Vocalism·AI”。谷川俊太郎先生又为我写了一首诗，配音还是水岛弘先生和岸田今日子女士。本作在海外也很受欢迎。

影片讲述了在东北小城辽县，围绕动物园的经营危机，冤家父子和怨种兄弟搞出了各种啼笑皆非的囧事。

邓小龙（许冠英 饰）从小就为人正直、乐于助人，他的志愿就是长大了能当一名除暴安良的好警察。无奈天意弄人，他因身材矮小，而且天生色盲，于是被警局拒之了门外，他只好去保安公司当了一名护卫员。保安主管周世昌（许冠文 饰）是一名老油条，为人尖酸刻薄、贪生怕死。下属阿Sam（许冠杰 饰）一早就看他不顺眼，只是有冤无处申。这次，公司的太子王平凡从国外留学回来，假扮保安混进了公司考察情况。不久阿Sam和小龙就因工作出色而获得提拔，而周世昌却被剥夺了主管之位降职任用，还有几个月就可以退休享受的他会为了退休金忍下这口恶气还是会另有所谋？

In his bold, poetic approach, Clu Gulager manages to pack a decade's worth of experimentation into a fast, economical 20 minutes. Images dissolve and bleed into one another, freeze-frame and turn into paintings. Gulager also utilizes different camera speeds and even (and this is something I haven't seen before) the grain of the film to achieve his effects. Laszlo Kovacs' sun bleached photography helps immeasurably in streamlining such techniques into a powerfully eccentric, disturbingly compelling narrative. Far from pretentious (the word I'd use to describe most "experimental" films from the late sixties), this film comes off both as a celebration of childhood innocence and an uncompromising examination of its darkest extremes. And furthermore, Gulager and Kovacs achieve what may be the most unsettling final freeze frame ever.