美国某大学艺术系的学生:贝丝(Lauren German 饰)、惠特妮(Bijou Phillips 饰)和洛娜(Heather Matarazzo 饰)利用假期来到美丽的意大利罗马游玩。她们偶然遇见漂亮迷人的女模特爱丽克希尔(Vera Jordanova 饰),后者自告奋勇担任三个女孩的免费导游,并承诺带她们去斯洛文尼亚某个乡村小镇——一个更浪漫更舒适的地方——游玩。
年少不知愁且玩心颇重的女孩们欣然前往,然而等待她们的并非蓝天绿水美食佳肴,也没有英俊帅气的男孩,更没有浪漫唯美的爱情,而是恐怖残酷的无情虐杀……。Eburi is a 36 year-old man. Nothing enthuses him any more. While being drunk, he promises to contribute a story to a magazine. When he sobers down, he decides to write about the life of a salaried employee like himself who is very ordinary, not particularly talented.
The following is his story:
In 1949, Eburi gets married to Natsuko. His monthly salary is 8,000 yen and hers 4,000 yen. Therefore, both have to work to support themselves. Eburi has developed a habituIl tendency to pester around when he gets drunk. One year after their marriage, son Shosuke is born. In 1959, Eburi's mother dies in despair of her husband who has become listless due to the several ups and downs of gaining big profits and going bankrupt. His father is still alive and Eburi is enable to find a way to pay his father's debts. He is doubtful if he can make his wife and child happy. Nevertheless, he has somehow managed to survive so far, living in one of the houses at the employee housing quarters. He gives the title "The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman" to his story of half novel and half essay style. When it is published, it receives the Naoki Literary Prize (the award given in memory of popular writer Naoki Sanjugo). At a party to celebrate his award, he gets drunk and pesters around.
Notes
The film is based on a novel written in the style of an essay under the same title by Yamaguchi Hitomi, depicting everyday life of a man categorized as "During-the-war Generation" who spent school days during the war and get married to start new life in the struggling post-war era. "Everyman" in the title means an average salaried employee who makes up an overwhelming majority of the city population in Japan, and "The Elegant Life" indicates sarcasm on betterment of the standard of living of ordinary salaried employees accompanied with Japan's economic growth after only a decade from the destroyed post-war period. As depicted in the film, the author Yamaguchi Hitomi was awarded the Naoki Literature Prize for this story. When he established himself well enough to become independent, he quit working as a salaried employee. Director Okamoto Kihachi and the leading actor Kobayashi Keiju belong to the same generation as the author. Exploiting innovative effects such as inserting animation sequences, the film humorously presents compassion of a middle-aged salaried employee. Kobayashi Keiju, who was originally noted for his excellent portrayal of salaried employee, won the best leading actor award of the Mainichi Film Contest for his superb performance in this picture.。历史上的宋朝,分为北宋和南宋两个时期。在两宋期间,中华大地都发生了哪些惊心动魄的事件?亡国之君宋徵宗,开国皇帝宋高宗,南宋中兴四将,金钱百战名将,又都是些什么样的历史人物呢?他们和民间传说有着什么相同和不同之处呢?《百家讲坛》邀请北京市海淀教师进修学校高级教师袁腾飞,以史为鉴,用现代的视角回观历史和那些生动的历史人物,为我们细细评述两宋期间的这段特殊历史。。