出っ歯であるために周りからいじめられ、疎外される少年。彼の憎悪は日増しに募り、彼以外のあらゆるものに向けられていく。今流行の“いじめ”をテーマにした漫画アニメーション。という言い方では想像もつかない程、すさまじい作家自身の怨念が、強烈な映像のパワーとなって見る者に襲いかかる。全くの個人作業により、3年もの年月を費やして完成された、めくるめく地獄絵の世界。

乔什（马科斯·波麦兰 Max Pomeranc 饰）是一个平凡而又普通的美国男孩，某日，他和父亲弗雷德（乔·曼特纳 Joe Mantegna 饰）一起下国际象棋，竟然奇迹般的打败了经验丰富的父亲。之后，乔什又参加了国际象棋公开赛，一路过关斩将，展现出了惊人的天赋。父母决定将乔什培养成一名天才棋手。某日，一位名叫维尼（劳伦斯·菲什伯恩 Laurence Fishburne 饰）的男子出现在了乔什身边，随着时间的推移，两人之间结下了深厚的友谊。与此同时，父母找来了德高望重的围棋老师布鲁斯（本·金斯利 Ben Kingsley 饰）指导乔什。然而，没过多久，乔什便对日复一日的坐在棋盘前的枯燥生活感到了厌倦。

查理（尼古拉斯?凯奇）是个善良、温和、喜欢孩子的好警察，却有一个虚荣自私的妻子，他们像所有不搭调的夫妻一样吵闹不断，但是查理总是忍让。一天查理的妻子说梦见父亲并认定有特殊含义，叮嘱查理买彩票。善良的查理在早餐中没有钱付给伊娃小费，就约定如果彩票中了奖就一人分一半，如果没中奖则第二天来把小费补上。没有当真的伊娃没料到奇迹的事情发生了，查理的彩票一下子中了四百万美元巨奖！信守承诺的查理把一半的奖金分给了伊娃，让伊娃从此摆脱了破产穷困的生活，尽管惹来妻子的牢骚不满。晋身富豪的妻子在上流社会谈笑风生，而查理与同样善良热情的伊娃越走越近。妻子把二人告上法庭，要回属于自己的财产，查理与伊娃败诉。打算离开这个城市的二人最后一夜在自己的咖啡店相处，给了雨夜中毫无分文的黑人一碗热汤。这个在纽约城打拼了十年的黑人记者把这一夜的经历写在报纸上，全纽约城的人都知道了这对善良人的故事，纷纷给他们寄来自己的小费。信件如雪片，查理和伊娃靠着全纽约城善良人们的小费，赎回了自己的咖啡店，过上了幸福的生活。

IN SHANGHAIIn Shanghai Lou Ye, 2001short FilmIn Shanghai or the eyes of a Chinese director of his city, Shanghai, Communist economic center , but also megalopolis with many faces ...Lou Ye is a great filmmaker. After having the success that we know for the sublime Suzhou River, the young director of the sixth generation is coupled to the design of this short film about Shanghai, the city of his heart , beautiful and multicultural . Camera in hand ( for lovers is a Sony DSR- PD150 DVCam ... ) for subjective , Lou Ye rhyme begins this urban plan by a girl asleep on a bed. Slowly the camera moves out of the suburb where this unknown young woman is given the arms of Morpheus , better visit this city that is Shanghai. The narrator who is also the hero says in voice-over that he loves this megalopolis . It focuses on the residents of these neighborhoods without cloth and without resources where most of the native population of Shanghai Lodge . Indeed the streets Zongshan Donglu which contains the Bund, Pudong, the famous Oriental Pearl is not the stock market and everyone. We must go farther Jingan District to discover the social wealth of this city . Why attach immense cold and nervous architectures while the Shanghai Blood flows through the veins of its rural ? It's a little message Lou Ye through this short film ."You can guess who they are, but we can never really know "Lou Ye eradicates a rare cinematic power of this often precarious and old people waiting on the bus every morning to go to work and make the Chinese economy humming .The old streets of the city like the nearby temple Cheung Hong Bund to the bank of the Huangpu , the filmmaker does not recognize the city. As if all these steel towers of the 21st century had absorbed the social essence of the " Paris of the East" .Lou Ye then takes us on a visit to the arcades , discos, clubs, dances, flashy locations and disconnected from the reality of ordinary people in the middle of poverty which is near workers and street vendors where people drown their defecation in water by putting the edge of an old tub ... This is a new look for the Western .Finally, after making stops in a dangerous Shanghai streets by night , the hero wakes up in the morning director in a corner near buildings unsafe and fixed on the face of a shy child , concluding : "The only thing that matters is Shanghai . "By these words Mr. Lou Ye, I bear you my esteem .