市文物局局长卢飞的意外死亡在市里引起不小的轰动.案情发生后,刑警队长德健率助手邓梅,叶龙介入此案的调查.由于卢飞生前官居高位,且身负盗取国宝"僧王刀"和其它经济犯罪的重大嫌疑,所以他的死也引起市委领导的高度重视,并限期侦破.一次偶然的机会,德健以前的战友沈奇得到了一把"僧王刀".原来,德健和沈奇曾同在缉私队工作,在一次解救人质萧萧时,因为沈奇的失误致使萧萧的哥哥,缉私队队长萧军光荣牺....。萧条的城市里,帮派分子随处可见,担任黑手党会计的杰克因为私吞黑手党财产并向警方告密,而遭到黑手党监视,他一家人被困在公寓中随时会遭遇不测。杰克和妻子将小儿子菲尔托付给单身女邻居葛洛莉(吉娜·罗兰兹 Gena Rowlands 饰),然而他们自己却没能躲过黑手党……欲追回钱款的黑手党继续追索菲尔,但此时,身份并不简单的葛洛莉挺身而出,决定保护这个陌生的男孩。二人在黑手党的包围中侥幸逃走,声称厌恶孩子的葛洛莉与英语不甚流利的混血男孩在步步惊心的旅途中营造了互信与默契,但葛洛莉清楚,真正的把菲尔从黑手党手中解救出来需要她做出一个惊险的决定……。Bipedalism, or 'two-footed walking', is the story of a painter who grew up in an orphanage and only years later learns the circumstances of his father's disappearance and death. Childhood memories bring the main character back to the past: he buys a house in the suburbs that used to belong to his family. In the basement, he finds his father's archives and scientific research documents on the hybridization of human race with related biological species. Studying the archive material, he unexpectedly finds evidence of efforts to renew the experiments on the remaining hybrid population. The painter then becomes a researcher, and consequently a victim. The basic idea of his father's research was to change, control and influence the process of human evolution - initially connected with eugenics theories of the period before World War II, and now being placed in a context of modern 'biotechnological' expectations by his former colleagues. The main character tries to recreate and realize his father's heritage, who was forced to cooperate with state terror organizations, using the results of his secret research. In a tragic manner, this information turns into the main character's reality, at first forcing him to reappraise his father's values and later driving him to madness.
(http://www.input2002.com/en/film/24418.html)。