Today, over 10% of the global population suffers from mental health problems. Three decades of collaboration between scientists and Buddhist scholars have revealed techniques that allow us to develop our mental well-being and improve the impact we have on our planet.
A mature, intelligent high school student has a side job arranging "accidental" deaths (no 2 alike) of fellow students' parents. A cop detective notices this student being connected to all the kids of dead parents. Who wins the face-off?
在一场艺术品拍卖会上,汤姆(丹尼斯·霍珀 Dennis Hopper 饰)遇见了名为乔纳森(布鲁诺·甘茨 Bruno Ganz 饰)的男人。乔纳森患有血液方面的疾病,这对于他那并不富裕的家庭来说无异于雪上加霜。黑手党找到了汤姆希望他能够帮他们完成一项暗杀任务,不愿意铤而走险的汤姆想到了乔纳森。 汤姆向乔纳森保证,如果后者能够代替他完成任务,那么汤姆的家庭将会得到一大笔的报酬,与此同时,汤姆贿赂了乔纳森的主治医师,两人合伙蒙骗了乔纳森,让他以为自己的病情发生了急速恶化。就这样,心中充满了痛苦和绝望的乔纳森走上了一条不归路,而看着乔纳森苦苦挣扎的模样,汤姆的心中竟然也产生了一种说不清道不明的情绪。
2002年,韓培印的兒子勝利考上了西安一所大學,從農村來到城市。為了讓勝利上學,老韓變賣了家裏所有值錢的東西,到西安打工,為兒子解決大學的生活費和來年的學費。做了一輩子農民的老韓堅信知識會改變命運,他樂觀地盼望著,兒子上了大學,將來一定會有出息。
勝利面臨畢業,性格內向的他面對強大的就業壓力,感覺這個城市越來越遠,上過大學的他很可能賺得比父親還要少。
有一個本子被老韓隨身裝了好幾年,裏面記滿了三年來十元、二十元的借款記錄,以及他對兒子勝利的期望:“我兒勝利要在2013前後,也就是父親的60歲前後,咱們全家到北京好好的玩幾天,那時候咱們大家都很有錢……”
In China, HAN has sold off all the family’s home valuables and now works in Xi an city to make money for his son to go to college. HAN firmly believes that knowledge has power to change their destiny. “Around 2013 or so, roughly my sixties, Sheng-li will take our family to Beijing for a sightseeing visit. We will have plenty of money by then…”
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2009年 獲得第二屆香港華語紀錄片節最佳短片
Excellent cinematography is displayed in the film-Cohen utilizes various types of film, from super 8 to 16mm. Fugazi, being the greatest medley of musicians to emerge from the DC area, is depicted on screen in an 115 minute documentary. The video includes really neat live footage, as well as some bonus material.