Semiotics of the Kitchen adopts the form of a parodic cooking demonstration in which, Rosler states, "An anti-Julia Child replaces the domesticated 'meaning' of tools with a lexicon of rage and frustration." In this performance-based work, a static camera is focused on a woman in a kitchen. On a counter before her are a variety of utensils, each of which she picks up, names and proceeds to demonstrate, but with gestures that depart from the normal uses of the tool. In an ironic grammatology of sound and gesture, the woman and her implements enter and transgress the familiar system of everyday kitchen meanings — the securely understood signs of domestic industry and food production erupt into anger and violence. In this alphabet of kitchen implements, states Rosler, "when the woman speaks, she names her own oppression."

该片是以与现代人关系密切的智能手机为素材的影片。

唐大中十三年，民间涌现不少反昏君反腐官的组织，其中以打着“杀富济贫推翻朝廷”旗号的飞刀门的势力最大。飞刀门总部设在靠近都城长安的奉天县境内，为保长安安全，朝廷下令奉天县府将飞刀门成员悉数剿灭。奉天县两大捕头刘捕头（刘德华）与金捕头（金城武）收到限期缉拿飞刀门新任帮主归案的命令。因怀疑牡丹坊的舞妓小妹（章子怡）是飞刀门前帮主的女儿，刘捕头设计将她拿下押入天牢，后又与金捕头再度设下圈套令金捕头化身义士将她救出，想骗取她的信任查出飞刀门的巢穴，但他不知的是，除了在公务上与金捕头和小妹打交道外，私情上也会与他们有番纠缠。

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