刘继祖（刘德华 饰）是从香港远赴越南公干的记者，在那里，他遇见了名为阮红（钟楚红 饰）的翻译官。一次偶然中，刘继祖出了车祸被捕入狱，所幸得到了阮红的出手相助才免去了牢狱之灾，两人就此成为了朋友。 某日，刘继祖在误打误撞之中走进了示威游行的队伍中去，被误认为是学生运动的领袖而遭到了当地军队的逮捕，被判入狱三年。和刘继祖一起被关起来的，还有阮红的弟弟。为了救弟弟，阮红和刘继祖里应外合，策划了越狱行动，哪知道在此过程中，阮红的弟弟不幸丧生。不知道经历了几番艰难险阻，刘继祖一行人总算抵达了安全地带。
I can see people will either love or hate this movie, depending on your own experiences and loves. Its basically about a incredibly obese police officer coming to terms with his own mortality (he is given a year to live at the start of the movie). It has other bits and pieces in the plot (love, mystery etc), but these are not the central ideal of the movie. I found myself crying in many parts of this movie, for myself being fat (and have been my entire life... of course not to the degree of the main actor, but to a degree which has caused bullying my entire life) this story hits very close to home. And some of the subtle emotional behind the scene's stuff here definitely adds to the mood. Anyone who has had any sort of eating disorder (over or under eating whatever) will recognise things in this movie, and will more then likely be in tears by the first 30 minutes of the movie.
这是英年早逝的法国导演让.厄斯塔什1974年导演的一部出色的青春片,本片讲述了一个青春期少年成长的故事,影片的格调清新写实,还原了上世纪同时期法国小城的生活和社会现实,同时通过对性暧昧的描写也出色地勾画出了青春期的困惑和诱惑,在主角小男孩一步步在诱惑下失去纯真走向改变的过程中也隐喻了导演的个人表达。
