VN.099-馮木木

　　World War II is around the corner, but the only thing Sally Bauer can think of is the ocean. Her dream is to swim across the English Channel. Her father has tried to exorcise her obsession with swimming since she was a toddler, without success. An unwanted pregnancy forces her to abandon her dream – and herself. The child’s father does not want to be involved, so as a woman in the ‘30s in Sweden, Sally has no choice but to do what is expected of her: to be a mother. There is no place left for her dreams and Sally is pulled into bottomless darkness, until her sister Carla saves her. With renewed purpose, together the sisters begin to dismantle the conventions they are constantly facing. In late August 1939, Sally stands on the shore at Dover and takes her first step into the English Channel. She swims across the open and icy sea for 15 hours, waving to the Navy who are readying for war. A couple of days after Sally swims ashore at Calais, Poland is invaded.

　　影片構(gòu)建了一個(gè)妙趣橫生的死后世界觀：人離世后將抵達(dá)一個(gè)連接無(wú)數(shù)“永恒世界”的中轉(zhuǎn)站，一旦選擇就無(wú)法改變。故事始于賴瑞（邁爾斯·特勒 飾）被蝴蝶餅噎死的荒誕開(kāi)場(chǎng)，他在中轉(zhuǎn)站重獲青春，等待妻子瓊安（伊麗莎白·奧爾森 飾）的到來(lái)。然而瓊安到來(lái)后，卻面臨新的難題——她在戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)中陣亡的前夫盧克（卡勒姆·特納 飾），竟已在此苦候她67年?！　蓚€(gè)男人為了獲得瓊安的最終選擇， 展開(kāi)了一系列令人捧腹的“競(jìng)爭(zhēng)”，各種啼笑皆非的較量讓本該嚴(yán)肅的永恒抉擇變成了一場(chǎng)妙趣橫生的“愛(ài)情競(jìng)賽”。面對(duì)車站里呈現(xiàn)的琳瑯滿目的人生可能，一邊是共同走過(guò)漫長(zhǎng)歲月、充滿柴米油鹽記憶的現(xiàn)任丈夫；一邊是曾令她刻骨銘心、苦候她67年的前度摯愛(ài)， 瓊安必須做出最終的選擇：與誰(shuí)攜手， 共赴永恒？

　　為了能讓身患老年癡呆癥的父親重回正常的生活，威爾·羅曼（詹姆斯·弗蘭科 James Franco 飾）一直致力于名為“Cure”的基因藥物的開(kāi)發(fā)，并在大猩猩身上不斷進(jìn)行著藥物試驗(yàn)。在公司已經(jīng)失去信心的同時(shí)，威爾繼續(xù)在家完成試驗(yàn)，并在一只名為凱撒的大猩猩身上獲得成功。借助靈長(zhǎng)類學(xué)家卡洛琳（芙蕾達(dá)·平托 Freida Pinto 飾）的幫助，威爾發(fā)現(xiàn)凱撒的智力極大地提高。不過(guò)，人類的社會(huì)始終無(wú)法接受擁有極高智力的凱撒，凱撒被送往了猩猩看護(hù)所?？醋o(hù)所的殘酷對(duì)待，使得凱撒利用智慧進(jìn)行抗?fàn)帲罱K救走了同時(shí)被囚禁的其他猩猩，而且對(duì)它們都使用了Cure。一群高智商的猩猩與人類對(duì)立的戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)就此拉開(kāi)。本片獲得了第84屆奧斯卡最佳視覺(jué)效果的提名。

影片通過(guò)跨越數(shù)千年、不同時(shí)空的三條故事線，交織出無(wú)形之中彼此呼應(yīng)的科幻寓言。