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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.

在地球的角落里，有一个小镇。不知从何时起，人们的记忆便被似乎永不停歇的大雨所占据。连绵不绝的雨水惹人心忧，他们有的迁往远方，有的搬至高地，远离湿润哀伤的雨之城。人烟寥落，令小镇更显凄惶，放眼望去，一幢幢房屋如同被抽去灵魂的躯体，死气沉沉，了无生机。曾经呼啸而过的火车静静趴在铁轨上，有如僵死的巨龙。身穿黄色雨衣的小女孩是这蓝灰城镇中的一抹亮色，她穿过大街小巷，寻找着生了锈的机器人朋友。她们的脚步激起欢快的水花，也在心田深处漾起不绝的涟漪……

1962年，年幼的林初三（莫少聪 饰）和姑妈秀姨（鲍起静 饰）母女随大陆难民潮来到香港，无依无靠的初三在暴动中结识了地头蛇大哥泉哥（成奎安 饰），被其收为义子，和泉哥的儿子沙皮（刘德华 饰）做了异性兄弟。泉哥被仇人杀死，初三跟沙皮两兄弟自此寄人篱下，初三因藏匿老大的毒品被迫染上毒瘾，时间一晃多年，初三告别戒毒所后，与沙皮结识了女学生阿美（罗美薇 饰），初三对阿美一见钟情，两人不久奉子成婚。沙皮在婚礼上为了保住初三的面子不惜以身犯险，结果婚宴刚过，两兄弟因打劫又刺伤警察被判入狱。在狱中，他们领悟到小弟生涯毫无前途，于是出狱后借高利贷拉皮条，这将二人又引向了另一个深渊……

这是香港七十年代的文艺片。片中的主角小杂种（宗华 饰）从小就是一名弃婴，幸好得到隐居山林的隐士收养，小杂种才总算长大成人。长大后的小杂种对自己的身世很好奇，于是决心下山探寻自己的身世之谜。路上，小杂种与乞丐女小乙（李丽丽 饰）相识，两人很快结为了好友，小乙和小杂种一起上路了。虽然他们与纨绔子弟顾英豪（刘丹 饰）结怨而处处受到刁难，但他们还是终于找到了小杂种身世之谜的线索。当最后小杂种从妓院的老鸨口中得知自己的身世时，现实原来如此残酷。