平衡人生

翻拍自同名韓國電影，講述深受困擾、無依無靠的拳擊手搬去和失散多年的母親及患有自閉症的鋼琴家弟弟同住，他必須融入這個多年未識的家。

八歲的小男孩查理（Roméo Botzaris 羅密歐波扎利斯 飾）急切企盼聖誕節的來臨，因為父親皮耶（Vincent Lindon 文森特林頓 飾）答應送他一輛自行車作為節日禮物。但是當他好不容易等到父親回家時，卻發現他的禮物只是一架白色的飛機模型。父親看出查理的失望，答應當查理生日時一定送他自行車。 不久，身為飛行員的皮耶在執行任務時不幸遇難，只留下悲傷的妻子凱瑟琳（Isabelle Carré 伊莎貝爾卡瑞 飾）和兒子查理相依為命。查理每晚抱著父親送給他的飛機睡覺，希望以此能夠與父親更近。不過他卻發現，這架飛機竟然能夠自由飛翔……

雷吉娜碰見了查理，兩人迅速相愛並結了婚，住在巴黎。三個月過去了，雷吉娜發現自己一點都不瞭解查理。她獨自踏上旅途，考慮和查理離婚。然而回到巴黎的寓所後，她發現他們同住的公寓空空如也，她的銀行帳戶被清空，一堆法國警察在等她，而且，查理死了。 很快查理以前的三個同伴出現在她面前，希望雷吉娜回答他們關於查理的疑問，以及一大筆錢的去向，這筆錢一直在查理手裡，現在他死了，大家都認為作為他的妻子，雷吉娜必然瞭解內情。殊不知雷吉娜自己也正因為完全不瞭解查理的世界和內心而決定和他離婚，對他所做的事情她也一無所知。 危機越來越明顯，越來越多的人捲了進來，並且和查理一樣被神秘謀殺，而雷吉娜獨自在馬丁尼克島度假時遇見的約舒亞·彼德斯再次出現，並多次在危險狀況下出手相救。可約舒亞的身份也是個謎，他彷彿在不停變換身份，使雷吉娜對他的信任蒙上陰影，儘管如此，兩人之間還是有了感情。...

男孩查理是足球場上一顆冉冉升起的新星，當他踢球時，一切彷彿都在他的掌控之中。目前有一家頂尖的俱樂部非常想和他簽約，對他來說未來似乎是那麼美好，而成功也彷彿就在眼前。 然而鮮為人知的是，查理一直覺得自己的內心住著一個女孩的靈魂。他既想要達成父親的夙願，又想要直面自我，成為一個只是叫查理的人。眼見秘密無法再隱瞞下去，查理的決定或許會讓他的家庭關係被撕裂，也可能將他完美的世界拖入懷疑、偏見和混亂中去……

　　科洛弗（艾麗·肯德里克 Ellie Kendrick 飾）在很早的時候就離開了家鄉自己在外打拼，留下弟弟查理茲和父親奧伯利（大衛·特洛夫頓 David Troughton 飾）在故鄉過著相依為命的生活。查理茲的死訊打破了科洛弗平靜的生活，為了處理弟弟的後事，她不得不再度回到了闊別已久的家鄉，並且見到了感情早已經十分疏遠的父親。　　家鄉的一切都已經變得和科洛弗記憶裡不一樣了，父親也是一樣，蒼老的他儼然已經像是一個陌生人了。科洛弗此行的另外一個目的，就是調查查理茲自殺的真相，因為她怎麼都不願意相信，一向樂觀開朗的弟弟會選擇結束自己的生命。

加夫列爾（費爾南多·瓦爾沃德 Fernando Valverde 飾）和妻子卡門（西爾維婭·蒙特 Silvia Munt 飾）結婚多年，卡門懷孕生下了可愛的小女兒阿米（Susana García Díez 飾），雖然加夫列爾一心希望生下的是男孩，但依舊十分疼愛阿米。之後，卡門又懷孕了，阿米有了一個弟弟。弟弟出生之後，阿米的境遇開始變得艱難，父親和母親的注意力大多集中在小兒子身上，這令阿米心中十分不是滋味。最終，阿米犯下了一生難以償還的過錯。　　在冷漠和罪惡感之中，阿米長大成人，可她的家庭卻早已經支離破碎。一場意外之中，阿米被人侵犯，父親亦因此終生將要坐在輪椅之上，母親精神崩潰，與此同時，阿米發現自己懷孕了。

基於Karlene Faith 所著紀實文學《The Long Prison Journey of Leslie van Houten: Life Beyond The Cult》和Ed Sanders所著小說《The Family》，講述在震驚世界的曼森謀殺案發生後，三位曼森家族的成員Leslie Van Houten, Patricia Krenwinkel和Susan Atkins被判終身監禁，研究生Faith被派去監獄對她們進行教導，三人將重新審視噩夢般的罪行。

黑人查理感到手足無措。在他遙遠的王國裡，白人法律的干涉令他感到生活變得更加困難了。於是查理下定決定，要按照古老的方式生活，但是他這樣的做法給他和周圍的人帶來了一系列意想不到的後果。

2015年越南金蓮花獎 最佳導演以及最佳劇情片獲獎影片。　　故事發生在 1980 年越南中部的一個貧窮農村，講述了兩兄弟之間在成長過程中的系列故事。一同玩耍、看家、相扶相助，弟弟崇拜哥哥，但哥哥卻嫉妒弟弟因聰明多受父母誇獎。直到大火燒燬了鄰居的房子，兄弟情面臨崩潰……他們要如何來修補破碎的感情？跟隨兩兄弟的回憶，亦可領略越南小城鎮簡單純淳樸的慢節奏生活。

查理（湯姆·克魯斯 Tom Cruise 飾）父親去世，留下了300萬美元的遺產。然而令他意外的是，遺產全部給了一個他不認識的哥哥雷蒙（達斯汀·霍夫曼 Dustin Hoffman 飾）。雷蒙的名字查理從沒聽過，這個事件讓他氣憤不已。他決定前去尋找哥哥。誰知雷蒙的住處就在一個精神病院裡，原來他自幼患有自閉症，母親去世後就被送到精神病院治療。查理心中有了算計，他把雷蒙帶出精神病院，企圖騙他出讓遺產。　　雷蒙的生活習慣奇異，活在自己的幻想世界裡，有很多離奇古怪的行為。並且，查理在共處中發現了雷蒙驚人的記憶能力，他試著利用哥哥過目不忘的本領去賭場上試一下身手，贏得了一大筆獎金，使查理足以擺脫窮困生活。而令查理收穫更大的是，他還獲得了慢慢升溫的親情，這種手足情遠遠勝過了他原先圖謀的300萬的遺產。

I remember seeing this film as a lad on a family outing in Manhattan, topped off by my insistence that we have dinner at Jack Dempsey's Restaurant in Manhattan. Too bad the old champ wasn't there that day or it would have been a perfect Sunday.                                                                      Seeing it now on a formatted VHS the awesomeness of the spectacle during the scenes of the circus fires and the capsized ship in the harbor is really lost. It's quite an eyeful and should only be scene in theaters.                                                                      And the film would be revived, but we have a subdued John Wayne here and it's not for the better.                                                                      This was originally to be a Frank Capra film and Capra bowed out after creative differences with the Duke and some of the Duke's personal entourage. Read the Capra autobiography to find out exactly what they were, but they weren't fully fixed in the final product by director Henry Hathaway who later piloted the Duke to his Oscar in True Grit.                                                                      John Wayne was a guy who was usually very careful to give the public the Duke they expected. Even when he stretched his abilities it was done with a firm directorial hand.                                                                      We're asked to accept the Duke as a man who had an adulterous affair here. He also does not throw one punch in this entire film or fire a weapon in other than it being part of his Wild West Show. The people went to see John Wayne, but they didn't get their money's worth.                                                                      Pity because it would have been great to see John Wayne with Rita Hayworth in a great film. That couldn't have happened when they were younger because of Rita's contract with Columbia pictures and Wayne's personal boycotting of that studio because of his dislike for Harry Cohn. That story I won't go into.                                                                      Rita Hayworth who doesn't enter into the film until almost halfway through is fine as Wayne's lost love. She and Claudia Cardinale looked just fine in tights as trapeze artists. Lloyd Nolan as Wayne's sidekick is always good.                                                                      Richard Conte is Hayworth's brother-in-law and Cardinale's uncle. This fine actor is wasted here in a part that either was badly written or left on the cutting room floor.                                                                      John Smith was a Wayne protégé of sorts, Wayne gave him an early break in The High and the Mighty which he produced. Smith went on to star in the Laramie TV series and on completion of that he was cast opposite Cardinale, probably at Wayne's insistence. I remember always wondering what happened to him because he left show business shortly afterwards. Then back in the Nineties I read he had died of cirrhosis of the liver. I guess you can fill in the blanks.                                                                      At the time Circus World came out, there was on television a prime time series called International Showtime. It was on Fridays at 8 pm. and it was set in a different city in Europe every week. Hosted by Don Ameche it featured the very best circus acts in the world. So did Circus World, but it certainly was no incentive for people to come out to see this when they could see the same thing at home. Also Paramount re-released Cecil B. DeMille's The Greatest Show on Earth to a brisk box office business at the same time Circus World came out.                                                                      So for all these reasons Circus World flopped and bankrupted producer Samuel Bronstein. Nevertheless if you're a circus fan you will enjoy seeing this. But it's not the Duke his fans have come to expect.