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however, a whole lot of current political relevance is waiting to be discovered beneath the different layers of film historical references contained in the images.
巴西世界盃總決賽當日，下午五點，中國少年民工縮衣節食，滿心期待下班後與應召姐姐共度良宵，殊不知她早已買好了離城的車票。晚間九點，新加坡男教師與輕熟女想來場隱密的山頂幽會卻被不解風情的計程車司機不斷打擾。午夜一點，在日俄交界的偏遠小鎮，神祕放映師面對流氓漁民的暴力討債，必須搶救打火機下的心愛膠卷。清晨三點，精心拍攝的科幻恐怖片眼看就要殺青，因為懷疑身為自己妻子的女主角與男主角有染，泰國導演竟開始分不清虛構與現實。 來自四個不同國家，關注題材和敘事手法也各異其趣的四位導演，以黑色電影風格演繹各自獨到的亞洲印象。一個夜晚，四則故事，在社會環境與文化地景的同與異中，拼湊東亞獨立電影的當代圖景。
