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Passages from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake 1965 16mm film 90minsThis was the first attempt to cinematize the works of Irish author James Joyce. Based more on a stage adaptation by Mary Manning than the Joyce novel itself, the film concentrates on Dublin pubkeeper Finnegan (Martin J. Kelly), who while in the throes of inebriation has a vision of his own death. As the bemused Finnegan lies in his coffin, his friends gather for his wake. The "corpse" tries to cut through the keening and platitudes by probing the innermost thoughts of those closest to him. The surprising aspect of this film is that so much of its difficult text works on screen--a tribute to the loving care of scripter/director/ editor Mary Ellen Bute, who, while preparing this film spent her waking hours picking the brains and burrowing through the resource materials of the James Joyce Society.Although director Mary Ellen Bute’s highly regarded Finnegans Wake (aka Passages from Finnegans Wake) is a unique film that is likely to baffle anyone unfamiliar with James Joyce, it cannot be dismissed merely as a literary exercise. The director was right in claiming that her film was “not a translation of the book but a reaction to it”. It is actually based on a stage play by Mary Manning, who was also responsible for the screenplay. Joyce’s elliptical rhetoric and intricate punning, which might be considered a formidable barrier to the filming of this most opaque of his works, proved to be an attraction to Bute, whose enthusiasm for the ‘visual’ and ‘kinetic’ quality of his language led her to the surprising but well-judged move of running subtitles from the original text to support the dialogue.Visual music pioneer Mary Ellen Bute's final film was also her first feature film. James Joyce's classic story of Irish tavern-keeper who dreams of attending his own wake is brought to the screen with a sparkling energy which highlights its maker's career-long exploration of kinetic abstract animation. Perhaps best described as a 'film poem,' Passages from Finnegans Wake was the first attempt to 'cinematize' the works of James Joyce, featuring the author's highly original language spoken by characters and presented as text on screen.

艾维（叶玉卿 饰）是一位小有名气的外科医生，有一个相恋多年的同行兼男友李（林韦辰 饰），两人感情十分稳定。一次偶然中，艾维意外撞见了李与自己闺蜜之间的奸情，大受打击的艾维决定远赴澳门散心。医院接收了一位名叫阿龙（任达华 饰）的重伤病人，好不容易苏醒的阿龙发现自己失去了 记忆。就是这样一个过往一片空白的男人，他与艾维意外的相遇了。随着时间的推移，阿龙和艾维之间的距离越来越近，感情迅速升温难舍难分，可是，艾维明白，自己终将回到香港，回到岗位之上，情深意重的阿龙决定追随。阿龙忘记了过去，但过去却并不愿意放过阿龙，紧随其后的，是邪恶而又猖狂的黑帮分子。

和大部分家庭一样，杰瑞特一家人过着稳定而又平静的生活，卡尔文（唐纳德·萨瑟兰 Donald Sutherland）不仅是一个工作上矜矜业业的正直律师，同时也将父亲和丈夫的角色扮演得十分出色，和妻子贝丝（玛丽·泰勒·摩尔 Mary Tyler Moore 饰）结婚二十余载，两人的感情分外稳定。身为杰瑞特家的大儿子，伯克（Scott Doebler 饰）享受着更多的关心与爱，身为小儿子的康纳德（蒂莫西·赫顿 Timothy Hutton 饰）对此却并不在意。一次意外中，伯克溺水身亡，悲痛欲绝的贝丝迁怒于当时和伯克在一起的康纳德，这让后者十分痛苦与自责，好在有卡尔文的陪伴和关心，他内心的创伤才渐渐治愈。然而，当他再次鼓起勇气向母亲索取温暖的时候，贝丝的举动却让他的心再一次坠入了冰窖。

剑在中国古代很受文人墨客的欢迎，它不仅仅作为一种自卫的武器，更是自己凌云壮志的象征。同样中国古代的游侠也喜欢用剑，是他们劫富济贫与替天行道的象征。但如果作为武器，不是用来自卫，而是借助武器来恐吓别人，那就理解错了剑真正的用法了，动画中的主人公便是这样，借武器之威，损他人之利。