鹿方宁

关于一个新来到小城中，从事各种工作的工人的打闹喜剧。

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.

拳手林健儿（吴奇隆 饰）不甘受黑社会大哥阿勇（陈松勇 饰）的摆布，拒打假拳，准备携家逃跑却被抓回……出身警察世家的杨重（金城武 饰）因行事莽撞杀死了线人，丢了公职又犯下杀人罪；一干天涯沦落人在火烧岛监狱服刑，股票大王吴世达（吴孟达 饰）在狱中成为众人觊觎的目标，幸有酒鬼阿梁（赵自强 饰）和林健儿出手相助，吴世达出钱令林健儿、阿梁和杨重在狱中得到照顾。不久，狱中贩毒集团大哥宫天保（楼学贤 饰）向当年抓获自己的杨重寻仇，杨重却以德报怨在阿勇袭击宫天保时出手阻挡。宫天保安排人手报复阿勇，自此与林健儿、阿梁等站到同一行列。典狱长（黄秋生 饰）欲从宫天保手中获得更大的利益，多次设计陷害宫等人，众人不堪忍受决定奋起反抗……

一起诱拐儿童案受到全体国民的关注，除了被拐的孩子外，“人贩”提出的怪异要求——要求所有国民每人捐出1000韩元给一家福利机构也让人们十分不解。且“人贩”扬言一周内若筹集不到1亿韩元，便会将孩子杀死。就在此时，社工吴顺（朴河善饰）照顾的孩子宝拉（甘素贤饰）的父亲被人发现已经身亡，宝拉也不见踪影。参与案件调查的新人警官志媛（河润景饰）怀疑凶手就是吴顺，理由是吴顺平时十分痛恨如宝拉父亲一样虐待儿童的父母……