快乐星球第2部

1940年代初，浙东某山村的童养媳竺春花（谢芳）因不堪虐待逃入某个越剧戏班，与教戏师傅的女儿邢月红（曹银娣）结为姐妹。不久，攻旦的春花和习生的月红双双成为戏班台柱。戏班在绍兴演出时，当地豪绅企图凌辱月红，为掩护她，春花被人绑在桥头示众，邢师傅也被打致死，临终前，邢师傅嘱附两人要“认认真真唱戏，清清白白做人”。戏班到上海后很快唱红，戏院唐经理想借上演淫秽剧目捞取更多银子，被春花严词拒绝，但月红却贪慕虚荣堕落成为唐经理的玩物，姐妹因此反目，但两人的情分并没到此终结。

年幼的弗兰基与家人生活在北爱尔兰恬静的小岛上，慈善的爸爸教导他捕鱼，然而一天晚饭时分，一名蒙面歹徒竟然闯进来枪杀了他父亲，仅仅因为他父亲透露了同情爱尔兰共和军的倾向。长大后的弗兰基（布拉德·皮特 Brad Pitt 饰）成为了一名爱尔兰共和军神枪手，然而英军始终武力强大，因此弗兰基等人决定购买毒刺式导弹。五个月后，弗兰基隐藏了身份，同时被内线安排到了警察汤姆（哈里森·福特 Harrison Ford 饰）的家中暂时住下。一方面，富有魅力的他与汤姆一家人很快建立了友谊，并将大笔买金先藏于汤姆家中，一方面，弗兰基找到当地黑市军火商波克（特里特·威廉斯 Treat Williams 饰）购置导弹。然而军火商急于要钱，竟派蒙面人闯入汤姆家中，整个棋局全盘打乱，火力混乱之际，面对一边是身为警察的朋友，一边是爱尔兰的使命，弗兰基将如何选择……

影片讲述日本帝国主义占领时期，姓名、母语、梦想统统不被允许的黑暗年代，朝鲜爱国诗人尹东柱(姜河那饰)在同为独立运动家的好友宋梦奎(朴正民饰)的影响下，通过诗歌鼓舞青年一代的故事。

Aki and Naoko are childhood friends who are drifting apart as adults. Immersed in her family life, Naoko now has a husband and daughter; Aki, on the other hand, remains single and is on leave from work due to a personal crisis. The plot might sound familiar but it has never been told like this. The director Kusano Natsuka stages the interactions through an actors’ table-read and, as the lines are repeated, the scenes gradually develop into on-location conversations. Moreover, she repositions the dramatic peak of the story to the beginning: Aki has murdered Naoko’s daughter.Structurally inventive, Kusano's daring cinema implements ‘distantiation’ effects to get to the heart of friendship issues at times when life has settled. While the repetitions convey the suffocation of role patterns in both friendship and family, a line left out or added in unsettles and reminds us life can take unexpected turns.