导演认识了两位“朋友”。他与他们之间的交往构成了这部片子。开始,他并没有一个明确的计划要制作一部纪录片,但随着时间的推移,他开始有目的和他们交“朋友”。“朋友”们奇迹般地允许导演进入他们的生活,他们吸毒也贩毒的生活。
纪录片的制作者和被拍者之间到底应该是一种什么样的关系,这部影片给出了它的解释。
The director himself (who’s also a journalist) encountered in an interview a small group of people who, despite all odds, willingly invite him into their world of drug use and peddling. That’s how “Using” was born.
What exactly is the relationship between a filmmaker and those being portrayed, “Using” has the answer.
这座城市出现了一名绰号“Blitz”的连环杀人魔,他神出鬼没地杀害多名警官,而他的凶器只是一把锤子。没人知道他的踪迹,而他也因作案手法老练而使警方难以破案。嚣张的他更在每次作案前后都会和某报社负责犯罪版块的编辑邓洛浦(大卫·莫瑞瑟 David Morrissey 饰)报告杀人的细节,从而追求社会的关注。邓洛浦为了自己出名而没有通知警方,每次都能让警方试图封锁消息的计划破灭,也因此被警方注意。
个性容易冲动火爆的警察布兰特(杰森·斯坦森 Jason Statham 饰)因正义感太强殴打嫌疑犯,屡次遭投诉、上报纸,上司颇为恼火。这一次,布兰特奉命追查这名凶手,面对凶残狂妄凶手的放肆挑衅,他决定要靠自己的双手,为这个社会伸张正义......
本(詹姆斯·斯图尔特 James Stewart 饰)和乔(桃丽丝·戴 Doris Day 饰)是一对感情十分要好的夫妻,带着儿子汉克(Christopher Olsen 饰),一家三口来到了风景如画的摩洛哥度假。一次偶然中,本和乔结识了名叫路易斯(丹尼尔·盖林 Daniel Gélin 饰)的男人,他们在一起相处十分融洽。
不幸的事情发生了,路易斯被凶手刺杀身亡,临死前,他透露了一个神秘的名字——“安伯斯·查培”,并且告诉本和乔,有人正在伦敦执行一项秘密的暗杀行动,在得知了这个惊天秘密后,本和乔来到了伦敦。暗杀者自知行动泄露,为了取得最后的成功,他们不择手段绑架了汉克,可即便如此,也没能动摇本和乔声张正义的决心。
An ambitious newspaper reporter (Dick Powell), eager to scoop the competition, wishes he could know the news before it happens. A mysterious old man (John Philliber) grants the reporter that power, even as he cautions against using it. Now able to predict the news 24 hours in advance, the reporter goes about scooping all the other papers, picking sure-fire winners at the race track, and enjoying life... until he learns -- in advance, of course -- of his own death. Our hero's problem How can he keep the future from happening(imdb) 主人公每天晚上都收到一份次日早上出版的报纸,他获悉自己在数小时内即将毙命,然而他却幸存下来了。(乔治·萨杜尔《世界电影史》)
Two detectives are called to a small mining town in the Asturian mountains where a young woman who had been left for dead for months has suddenly appeared, leaving the detectives to question what dark forces are at work.
Since the death of their father and mother, Ambar and Dika move to a nursing home owned by their parents' best friend and their son, Agus. There are three people in the nursing home of Masa Toea: Grandma Ani, Grandpa Farid, and Oma Ida. The three are taken care of by Rina, a nurse who is also Agus's girlfriend. Not long after Ambar and Dika's move, Oma Ida's grandson, Arthur, comes to celebrate Eid. Ambar, who has the ability to see mystical things, accidentally gets a vision from the past: Ivanna, a Dutch woman, was tortured by Japanese soldiers which resulted in losing her head. A series of mystical events begin to haunt Ambar and all the residents of the nursing home, especially after they find a headless statue in the basement along with a vinyl record containing a scary song. On the day of Eid, things got even more tense when the residents of the orphanage found that Granny Ani has died without a head. Everyone panicky, especially when one by one the mystery of Ivanna's revenge is revealed. With the safety of all the residents of the orphanage now in danger, Ambar is required to finish Ivanna's revenge, before the spirit takes their lives.