剩女大作战

A once promising baseball star is constantly hunted by two hitmen when a young boy asks him to sell his baseball jacket. A high school student acquires a sleep control device to help him with his exams, and ends up getting more acquainted with the seller in the process. A prison guard buys a guitar and plays one last song with a rock band after he finds out that his number has been called up… to be an executioner. An English tutor and amateur journalist investigating a murder case makes an offer to gain information on the involvement of … a once promising baseball star.GOOD DEAL is a woven tapestry of the interconnected lives of people striving through the day-to-day of contemporary Korean society. Quite a spectrum of themes are covered: romance, crime, sports, famly, work, and even Russian literature! As each of its characters seek to make a “deal” with another person to help them stay ahead or even stay alive, they find their interactions much more involved and complex than they first thought. Written and directed by Cho Kyuong-ho, the film mixes wickedly dark humor and sincere sentimentality through its interwoven yet still seamlessly linear style of storytelling.

电影描述了一个封建大家族的衰败和覆灭过程，家族由杨老爷（井淼 饰）主宰，家庭成员之间存在着复杂的关系和矛盾。杨家的长子早逝、次子懦弱、三子嗜赌，只有四子志英（宗华 饰）敢于作为。家中的二少奶（卢婉茵 饰）和三少奶（吴浣仪 饰）喜欢挑拨是非，欺负大少奶，加剧了家庭内部的纷争。整个家族在家人之间的互相猜忌和斗争中逐渐破败下去。此外，掌管财务的二少奶的表兄熊其方私藏军火，导致杨家遭受查抄封屋的惩罚。在这一系列不幸事件的影响下，杨老爷最终因气愤而去世，杨家的门庭最终破落。这个故事反映了封建社会中家族内部的复杂关系和矛盾，以及权力争斗和私欲导致的家族衰落。同时也呈现了封建家庭中的权力结构和家族成员之间的相互影响，是对封建社会生活的一种揭示和反思。

老朱（郎雄）被儿子晓生（王伯昭）从北京接到美国后，不但没享清福，反因与作家儿媳马莎（Deb Snyder）语言不通、在生活习性上有诸多差异，添出许多新愁（老朱对马莎的世界不好奇，马莎虽对老朱的世界好奇，却并不想作深入的理解，而是在好奇过后深深厌恶），倔强的老朱一片灰心（竟然在儿子家里尝到寄人篱下的滋味！），愤然离家出走。一次偶然事件令美国媒体对老朱的太极绝技称奇，晓生和马莎也在看过电视新闻后找到了老朱，但此时的老朱已明白，处境凄凉总好过晚节不保。

一场意外让宾虚（拉蒙·诺瓦罗 Ramon Novarro 饰）沦为了可以被随意买卖的奴隶，他被卖到了一艘兵舰上，成为了一名水手。某日，兵舰遭遇海盗的袭击，就在这生死存亡的紧要关头，身强体壮的宾虚成功挽救了兵舰司令官的性命，司令官感谢宾虚的救命之恩，不仅赋予了他自由，还将其收为养子。之后，宾虚成为了一名角斗士，在竞技场里的英勇表现很快便为他赢得了名声与荣誉，然而，他的扶摇直上亦遭到了旧有梅瑟拉（弗朗西斯X·布什曼 Francis X. Bushman 饰）的妒忌。梅瑟拉提出要和宾虚来一场战车竞赛，实则想要暗害宾虚，没想到奸计没有得逞，自己的战车却翻倒在地。