简介:16岁的男孩Craig克雷格(凯尔·吉克瑞斯特 饰)经常会想象自己的死亡,在尝试多种药物皆没有效果后,自己来到精神病院接受治疗。在那里,他和一个自杀了几次却没能死掉的神神叨叨的Bobby鲍比(扎克·加利费安纳基斯 饰)成了朋友,还认识了一个特别的女孩Noelle,当然还有许许多多的“非正常人”。他们几个在医院的生活中,渐渐寻回了生命的意义,尤其是鲍勃·迪伦的歌词“He Not Busy Being Born Is Busy Dying”给了他们巨大的力量,让他们重新拥有勇气去面对生活的压力。最后,出院的克雷格是否能让他原本阴霾密布的生活重见阳光,他又将通过怎样的方式找回轻松充实的生活?
简介:In the summer of ’76, as President Jimmy Carter pledges to give government back to the people, tensions run high in a working-class Philadelphia neighborhood where the Black Panthers once flourished. When Marcus returns—having bolted years earlier—his homecoming isn’t exactly met with fanfare. His former movement brothers blame him for an unspeakable betrayal. Only his best friend’s widow, Patricia, appreciates Marcus’s predicament, which both unites and paralyzes them. As Patricia’s daughter compels the two comrades to confront their past, history repeats itself in dangerous ways.Night Catches Us masterfully reckons with the complexity of its characters’ revolutionary ideologies and internal desires. Bell-bottoms, Afros, potlucks, and Caddies set the scene as the film potently interweaves political media with an evocative soul-inspired score, summoning a vivid sense of place and time. The golden light that bathes characters’ faces seems to express the promise—and elusiveness—of the necessary change Marcus and Patricia struggle for so dearly—each by separate means.