In this scathing and subversive social comedy, life in post riot Los Angeles is dissected under the sardonic eye of John Boyz, an unemployed thirty nothing flounderer on Venice Beach who is trying to figure out what to do with his life. John can't be bothered with apathy, but no matter how much he wants to help people, he is too immobilized to do anything useful. Haunted by chronic insomnia and impending sense of doom, all he can do is watch, and John is an avid observer. Through his voyeuristic binoculars, he struggles to make sense of all the alienation and disaffection he sees in his neighborhood. In his journal he meticulously chronicles the mundane down to steadfast march of ants across his kitchen counter. John is desperately trying to keep one meaningless day from blending into next. He compulsively watches homemade videos of LA riots looking for a clue. But everywhere around him the city's social fabric is coming apart at the seams, and now it is John Boys's own threadbare ...
改革开放之初,山城重庆特殊的地理环境孕育了一个特殊的行业——山城棒棒军。爬坡上坎,负重前行的三十多年,数十万棒棒大军不仅挑走了汗水浸泡的年华,也挑走了属于自己的年代。癸巳岁末,几个佝偻背影即将道别正在消逝的行业,一名退役中校扛起一根棒棒开始了自己的追寻——辉煌与尴尬,艰韧和无奈,他们的人生无须评说,他们的故事值得铭记。
一个善良的风尘女子露西,为了生存,她不得不依附谍报科主任李立亨(钱波饰),并以柔弱身躯咬牙忍受李的变态人格与暴虐之爱,而迫于情势躲在柜中的罗飞(赵炳锐饰)为露西清洗伤口的举动,以及对露西亲人的救命之恩才真正赢得了她的心。最终,露西交出自己的生命换取罗飞的生路,脆弱的爱情还没来得及绽放又凄然落幕。
设定在一个讨债的黑暗社会里,本土骗子Peg Dahl在经历了一些麻烦之后,发现自己债务缠身,在家乡之外拥有更光明前途的机会被浪费掉了,于是她决定自己成为一名讨债人,并与这个城市的催债王开战。
来自全国各地的跨性别高中运动员在各自领域的顶尖赛事中竞争,同时也挑战公平和歧视的界限和看法。
凛冬忽至,一股北极刮来的冷空气毫无征兆地南下,袭击了美国俄亥俄州的西南部城市辛辛那提。对于如何应对极端天气,公共图书馆的管理者和无家可归的人们产生了不同意见,其中一些流浪者夜间躲进图书馆中,以抵御室外的严寒。然而,这一原本温和的抵抗行为却逐渐演变为一场僵局。警方介入调查,媒体喋喋不休,各方都不断揣测着事情的原委,企图还原真相。正如《圣经》中凡人与大力神角力的故事一样,这部影片涉及到了当今存在于美国的许多问题,包括物质上的流离失所和精神上的病患孤独,而影片中的一切都发生在民主最后的依存地——公共图书馆中。