Ronald Wright's bestseller A Short History Of Progress inspired this cinematic requiem to progress-as-usual. Throughout human history, what seemed like progress often backfired. Some of the world's foremost thinkers, activists, financiers and scientists challenge us to overcome 'progress traps,' which destroyed past civilizations and lie treacherously embedded in our own.
A beautiful woman turns to prostitution. She must surrender her income to the leader of a human trafficking ring, but her daughter’s illness and a drug addiction prevents her from delivering her usual share.
An unexpected event will give her the opportunity to stop obeying and take justice into her own hands.
The Doll is an adaptation of the novel, The Doll (novel) by Bolesław Prus, which is regarded by many as one of the finest Polish novels ever written and, along with Pharaoh (novel), made Bolesław Prus a potential candidate for the Nobel Prize in literature. The influence of Émile Zola is evident, and some have compared the novel to Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert; both were Prus's contemporaries. The movie, however, may be more compared to Stendhal's Le Rouge et le Noir, (The Red and the Black). The Doll constitutes a panorama of life in Warsaw between 1878 and 1879, and at the same time is a subtle story of three generations of Polish idealists, their psychological complications, their involvement in the history of the nineteenth century, social dramas, moral problems and the experience of tragic existence. At the same time this story describes the disintegration of social relationships and the growing separation of a society whose aristocratic elite spreads the models of vanity and idleness. In the bad air of a backward country, anti-Semitic ideas are born, valuable individuals meet obstacles on their way, and scoundrels are successful. This poetic love story follows a nouveau riche merchant, Stanislaw Wokulski, through a series of trials and tribulations occasioned by his obsessive passion for an aristocratic beauty, Izabela Lecka, played by the famous Polish actress, Beata Tyszkiewicz. Plot As a descendant of an impoverished Polish noble family, young Wokulski is forced to work as a waiter at Hopfer's, a Warsaw restaurant, while dreaming of a life in science. After taking part in the failed 1863 Uprising against Tsarist Russia, he is sentenced to exile in Siberia. On eventual return to Warsaw, he becomes a salesman at Mincel's haberdashery. Marrying the late owner's widow (who eventually dies), he comes into money and uses it to set up a partnership with a Russian merchant he had met while in exile. The two merchants go to Bulgaria during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78, and Wokulski makes a fortune supplying the Russian Army. The enterprising Wokulski now proves a romantic at heart, falling in love with Izabela, daughter of the vacuous, bankrupt aristocrat, Tomasz Łęcki. In his quest to win Izabela, Wokulski begins frequenting theatres and aristocratic salons; and to help her financially distressed father, founds a company and sets the aristocrats up as shareholders in his business.The indolence of these aristocrats, who secure with their pensions, are too lazy to undertake new business risks, frustrates Wokulski. His ability to make money is respected but his lack of family and social rank is condescended to. Because of his help (in secret) to Izabela's impecunious but influential father, the girl becomes aware of his affection. In the end she consents to accept him, but without true devotion or love.(wikipedia)
本纪录片回溯90年代为饶舌音乐奠定坚固基石的广播节目,Stretch and Bobbito他们独具慧眼的採访了Jay-Z、Nas、the Notorious B.I.G.等当年尚未发迹的音乐人,催生了纽约东岸饶舌音乐,改变流行世界版图。
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美国核潜艇蒙坦娜号在深海追踪一个不明物体的时候不幸失踪,高压潜水钻台深海之心号工头巴德(艾德·哈里斯 Ed Harris 饰)接到命令负责配合科菲上尉(迈克尔·比恩 Michael Biehn 饰)前去营救。令人意想不想不到的是一同前往的还有跟巴德一直在闹别扭的妻子—— 石油公司工程师琳西(玛丽·伊丽莎白·马斯特兰托尼奥 Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio)。三人为主的救援队潜到潜艇失踪的海底深渊边缘,却发现潜艇上无人幸存,令人恐慌的是深渊里还存在着一种未知的怪物。经过一系列的危机之后,科菲上尉不听劝阻认定这是苏联的阴谋,决定把从潜艇上拆下来的核弹发射给不明的敌人,于是巴德和琳西联手开始了殊死搏斗。千钧一发之际巴德不顾危险救下了琳西,并且潜下深渊去拆掉核弹头上的引信,完成任务之后巴德的氧气已经消耗殆尽,而就在此刻深海的怪物再次出现。
Eccentric scientist Harper lives in a spooky mansion with all the trimmings: hidden lab, secret panels, inscrutable butler, and greedy relatives with unusual talents. When Harper seems to be murdered, Charlie Chan (with the uninvited help of No. 4 son) tries to answer such questions as Where's the body? How can a dead man walk? And how can a secret murder be done in full view o...