康沃尔渔村的风景明信片田园诗误导了人们。虽然过去钓鱼是一种养家糊口的方式,但如今富有的伦敦游客纷纷下山,取代了当地人,当地人的生计因此受到威胁。史蒂文和马丁兄弟的关系也很紧张。马丁是一个没有船的渔夫,因为史蒂文开始用它来为一整天的游客提供更赚钱的旅游。他们卖掉了这座家庭别墅,现在看来,最后一场战斗是和新主人在海边的停车位上展开。然而,情况很快就失控了,而不仅仅是因为车轮夹钳。 Bait是一种黑白,手工制作,16毫米胶片制作的电影。许多关于鱼、网、龙虾、长靴、绳结和渔篮的特写镜头让人想起了蒙太奇景点的理论。对不同社会阶层的描述——可以说是阶级关系——也让人想起了英国电影中的社会现实主义传统。然而,最重要的是,在影像中不同层次的电影历史参考文献之下,当前许多政治关联正在等待被发现。 The picture-postcard idyll of the Cornwall fishing village is misleading. While fishing used to be a way of supporting oneself, wealthy London tourists have now descended and are displacing the locals, whose livelihood is thus threatened. The relationship between brothers Steven and Martin is also strained. Martin is a fisherman without a boat, since Steven started using it for far more lucrative tours for all the day-trippers. They’ve sold the family cottage and now it seems that the final battle to be fought is that with the new owners over the parking space next to the sea. Yet the situation soon gets out of hand, and not just because of the wheel clamp. Bait is a black-and-white film shot on hand-processed 16mm. Numerous close-ups of fish, nets, lobsters, wellington boots, knots and catch baskets bring to mind the theory of a montage of attractions. The depiction of the different social strata – one could speak of class relations – is also reminiscent of the tradition of social realism in British cinema. Above all, however, a whole lot of current political relevance is waiting to be discovered beneath the different layers of film historical references contained in the images.
马丁(卢卡·马里内利LucaMarinelli饰)出生在贫穷的家庭之中,没有上过几年的学,如今和姐姐过着相依为命的日子,并且成为了一名终日漂泊在茫茫大海之上的水手。一天,马丁邂逅了名为爱莲娜(杰西卡·塞西JessicaCressy饰)的千金大小姐,爱莲娜将法国诗人波德莱尔的诗集借给马丁看。马丁这辈子从来都没有看过这样的文字,一下子便被深深的吸引了,在海上漂泊的漫长时光里,他如饥似渴的吸收着这些知识,并且渐渐开始产生了自己写作的念头。马丁失业了,借此机会,他决定正式走上写作的道路。他不断的投稿,又不断的遭遇退稿,唯一没有想过的就是放弃。最终,马丁的小说被出版了,这令他收获了无数的名誉和财富。
1960年代的香港,因生母在阿飞旭仔(张国荣)长大成人过程中的缺失,他把自己优雅地比喻为“无根鸟”,对生命中遇到的每一个女人都表现得放荡不羁,售票员苏丽珍(张曼玉)和舞女咪咪(刘嘉玲)先后令他感受过温暖,可是她们也只能当当小情人。为摆脱沉重和无力感,旭仔抛下一切去南洋找寻生母。暗恋过苏丽珍且目睹过她与旭仔情感一路变化的,曾是小巡警今在跑船的超仔(刘德华)在菲律宾又遇到旭仔,是缘分也是宿命,他参与、见证了阿飞命运被改写的过程。