视频简介
One of our greatest contemporary filmmakers, Filipino director Lav Diaz, meets a Cuban cab driver, Gustavo Flecha. When their discussion touches on one of ex-dictator Marcos’ collaborators—now supposedly a refugee in Cuba—the film opens onto a new dimension of great formal beauty, artfully articulating the relationship between the political past and the present. 源自： ....。This story is based where the skateboard culture is the most foreign, the Midwest. Derrick Cabrera, like all skaters, has a dream of being sponsored and one day going pro. He is an up and coming skater with all the talent but has the world against him. Parents, friends and schoolmates can't understand how Derrick has so much passion for something that has no future in their eye...。對一個生於南部小鎮貧苦家庭的孩子來說，生活就是愁悶。雖然家有慈母，父親的臭脾氣實在嚇人，壞心腸的玩伴們更是不消提，全能全知的上帝又無時無刻不在監視著我們的一舉一動。直至姨媽的降臨，音樂與色彩才第一次進入生命，只可惜快樂的時光總是如此短暫…… 影片根據John Kennedy Tooler的小說改編，由曾執導過《遠方的聲音》(Distant Voices, Still Lives)和《長日將盡》(The Long Day Closes)的導演泰倫斯戴維斯(Terence Davies)執導，影片還曾經參加當年康城影展金棕櫚大獎的角逐。影片通過一個不速之客的闖入，展現了生活中的一個感人的成長故事。或許很多人都曾有過類似的經歷，一個貌不驚人的小變動卻能給人生帶來突破性的轉捩，影片中那種淡淡的味道極富生活氣息，同時又能在平淡中打動觀眾的心。。
