林檎Joseph isn't particularly happy, although he hides it rather well. The day his brother dies, the certainty sets in that life will pass him by. To ensure this doesn't happen, one evening, he gives in to his desire.
陈升
回复 :本片用一个香港警察从理想青年变成一代枭雄的过程，反应了香港五六十年代的社会问题。1949年，热血青年雷洛（刘德华 饰）成为警察。当时，香港警察待遇不高，警察向商户们收取保护费的潜规则蔚然成风，雷洛不愿意和他们同流合污，受到同事们的排挤，也得罪了权倾一时的探长颜同（秦沛 饰），面临停职的危险，然而，探长陈统(关海山 饰)暗暗欣赏他，对他维护有加。雷洛和杂货店老板的女儿阿霞（邱淑贞 饰）两情相悦，但是阿霞的父母不愿意女儿跟着他受苦，百般阻挠。雷洛借酒浇愁，到黑社会的赌场闹事，被人殴打，多亏探长陈统搭救，并帮他筹到了五万元的聘礼。但是，1951年九龙东头村的大火，烧毁了雷洛的美梦。雷洛一家侥幸逃脱，阿霞家人却葬身火海，阿霞本人也音信全无。转眼到了50年代末，雷洛经历了警队派系倾轧，几经浮沉，渐渐适应了香港警界，收保护费的事情也做得得心应手。他有幸娶到了“大捞家”白饭鱼的女儿，美丽泼辣白月娥（张敏 饰），靠着岳父的大力支持和自己在镇压1957年九龙暴动中的出色表现，荣升探长。成为探长的雷诺规范了管区内收取保护费的制度，减少了各界冲突，深得上级的器重。恰逢油尖区探长退休，雷洛和颜同都成为了这个职位的有力竞争者，二人各自展开了行动，一时风起云涌，此时，雷洛意外遇见了一个人，让他震惊不已……
孙楠
回复 :罗伯特·西奥德梅克于五十年代执导的海盗片，至今仍为同类影片中的经典之作，也是伯特．兰卡斯特在年轻时主演的影片，是其成名之作。剧情描述十八世纪时，在地中海出没的一名海盗和一名古怪的发明家联手，协助海岛上的居民反抗暴君的残暴统治。
飞颖
回复 :It has been said that most great twentieth century novels include scenes in a hotel, a symptom of the vast uprooting that has occurred in the last century: James Ivory begins Quartet with a montage of the hotels of Montparnasse, a quiet prelude before our introduction to the violently lost souls who inhabit them.Adapted from the 1928 autobiographical novel by Jean Rhys, Quartet is the story of a love quadrangle between a complicated young West Indian woman named Marya (played by Isabelle Adjani), her husband Stefan (Anthony Higgins), a manipulative English art patron named Heidler (Alan Bates), and his painter wife Lois (Maggie Smith). The film is set in the Golden Age of Paris, Hemingway's "moveable feast" of cafe culture and extravagant nightlife, glitter and literati: yet underneath is the outline of something sinister beneath the polished brasses and brasseries.When Marya's husband is put in a Paris prison on charges of selling stolen art works, she is left indigent and is taken in by Heidler and his wife: the predatory Englishman (whose character Rhys bases on the novelist Ford Madox Ford) is quick to take advantage of the new living arrangement, and Marya finds herself in a stranglehold between husband and wife. Lovers alternately gravitate toward and are repelled by each other, now professing their love, now confessing their brutal indifference -- all the while keeping up appearances. The film explores the vast territory between the "nice" and the "good," between outward refinement and inner darkness: after one violent episode, Lois asks Marya not to speak of it to the Paris crowd. "Is that all you're worried about?" demands an outraged Marya. "Yes," Lois replies with icy candor, "as a matter of fact."Adjani won the Best Actress award at Cannes for her performances in Quartet: her Marya is a volatile compound of French schoolgirl and scorned mistress, veering between tremulous joy and hysterical outburst. Smith shines in one of her most memorable roles: she imbues Lois with a Katherine-of-Aragon impotent rage, as humiliated as she is powerless in the face of her husband's choices. Her interactions with Bates are scenes from a marriage that has moved from disillusionment to pale acceptance.Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and James Ivory's screenplay uses Rhys's novel as a foundation from which it constructs a world that is both true to the novel and distinctive in its own right, painting a society that has lost its inhibitions and inadvertently lost its soul. We are taken to mirrored cafes, then move through the looking glass: Marya, in one scene, is offered a job as a model and then finds herself in a sadomasochistic pornographer's studio. The film, as photographed by Pierre Lhomme, creates thoroughly cinematic moments that Rhy's novel could not have attempted: in one of the Ivory's most memorable scenes, a black American chanteuse (extraordinarily played by Armelia McQueen) entertains Parisian patrons with a big and brassy jazz song, neither subtle nor elegant. Ivory keeps the camera on the singer's act: there is something in her unguarded smile that makes the danger beneath Montparnasse manners seem more acute.
