玉蒲團之陽物性教

　　在大雨瓢潑的星期五，帕克夫人（Kassie Wesley DePaiva 飾）突然身體不適，跌倒路旁的水坑中痛苦死去。該事件給她的家人以不小的打擊，三個孩子伊莉絲（安拜·柴爾德斯 Ambyr Childers 飾）、蘿絲（朱莉婭·加納 Julia Garner 飾）和羅瑞（Jack Gore 飾）憂傷不已，男主人弗蘭克（比爾·薩奇 Bill Sage 飾）卻似乎格外震驚。在孩子們的眼里，爸爸是至高無上權力的象征，女孩們渴望像同齡人一樣快樂自由成長，卻無奈必須服從爸爸的命令。籠罩在淡淡悲傷中的帕克家，隱藏著令人不敢直視的恐怖秘密，一本日記揭示著家族注定被詛咒的命運和歷史。　　與此同時，小鎮周圍的人口失蹤事件和意外被洪水沖出的手指骨，引起了有心人的關注，帕克家的秘密即將大白天下……

 影片主線講述了19世紀一戶普通家庭來到芝加哥并奮斗的故事，影片后半一頭母牛碰倒了提燈點燃了大火，展現了驚人的火災場景。

　　Based on an unknown Sch?nberg opera from 1929, From Today Until Tomorrow explores one night in a not-quite loveless marriage. A husband and wife return from a party where she has flirted with another man, while he has cast an appraising eye toward an attractive, fashionably dressed acquaintance of his wife’s. Though each dreams, briefly, of leaving the marriage for the excitement and mystery of a new lover, in the end they decide stability and comfort are more important than the fleeting thrill of new romance. Directors Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, who previously collaborated on two other films about music (The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach, 1968, and Moses and Aaron, 1975), rely on long fixed shots in austere black-and-white so that the focus remains on the musical brilliance of Sch?nberg’s atonal score, performed here by 70 musicians. That Sch?nberg would choose such a relatively lighthearted message for his newly discovered musical language remains a mystery, especially since the conclusion reached by the husband and wife—to stick with the tried and true—seems directly at odds with Sch?nberg’s own philosophy of composing. It is just this juxtaposition, however, coupled with Straub and Huillet’s faithful presentation, that makes the opera a compelling addition to the Sch?nberg canon—and the film such a challenging and intriguing experience.

　　鮑威爾（安東尼?霍普金斯 Anthony Hopkins 飾）是一位專門研究黑猩猩的人類學家，他在盧旺達長期觀察觀察當地黑猩猩的活動。然而兩年前，這位性情溫和的學者突然性情大變，殺了兩位當地的森林管理員以及傷害了多名管理員后神秘失蹤。如今，他終于被逮捕歸案，關押在美國高度戒嚴的精神病監獄。　　年輕的精神病專家卡爾特（小庫珀?古丁 Cuba Gooding 飾）意圖揭開鮑威爾精神失常之謎而一舉成名，于是他深入到監獄直接與鮑威爾進行對話。鮑威爾一開始對這位訪客充滿敵意，身為人類學家的他在卡爾特面前一點也不落下風。隨著對話的逐漸深入，卡爾特漸漸了解到了事件真相：鮑威爾殺害的管理員其實是偷獵大猩猩的惡棍……