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1972年，山东青岛某山村迎来了不同寻常的客人。来自北京的专员到此选拔具有舞蹈资质的孩子，11岁的少年李存信有幸当选。乘坐开往北京的列车，他来到中央五七艺术学校。经过七年的封闭式艰苦训练，他从一个最初并不喜欢芭蕾的后进生成长为优秀的舞者。在此期间，外面的世界风云变幻，身处象牙塔中的艺术工作者们也不难感觉那分毫的变化。1979年，休斯敦芭蕾舞团邀请李存信以交换生的身份前往美国。他踏足这块陌生的土地，内心深深感到旧有的信仰和资本主义物质精神文明的巨大碰撞。随着时间的流逝，李感受到自由、艺术和爱情的召唤，从而决定留在这片土地上……本片荣获2009年圣保罗国际电影节最佳外语片奖。

電力控制了20世紀生活的每一個層面，而主導人類社會運作的一切科技產品，也是非電力便不可行。一天，電力供應突然中斷，每一件事都陷入了混亂：電燈熄滅、電視罷工、電話也一片死寂，在這突如其來、永無止盡的黑暗中，人與人之間的連繫，開始逐漸瓦解，非法之徒趁機而起，每一個都市人面對這般情景，都是不知所措。
這齣帶有啟示的驚悚片，是新生代導演大衛寇普（曾為「侏羅紀公園」、「不可能的任務」編劇）的首作，描寫住在南加州近郊的一對夫婦麥特（凱爾麥克拉蘭 飾）與安妮（ 伊莉莎白 蘇 飾），一日晚上忙　偷閒，外出看電影，卻因電力中斷陷入一片混亂。好不容易回到一片漆黑的家後，女兒生病卻找不到藥房、鄰居趁機挑逗妻子、強盜趁虛而入......
導演企圖藉此片試圖檢討現代人類社會的疏離與愚蠢，試想，如果我們每天早上在黑暗中醒來，社會是否會因此瓦解崩潰呢？

大学生杰弗里回到小镇照顾生病的父亲，这个表面平静安逸的小镇却让杰弗里在归家途中的草丛里就发现了一只被残忍割下的人耳，杰弗里当场呕吐。这只耳朵引来了警察威廉斯的调查，威廉斯有个纯情年少的女儿桑迪，她与杰弗里相爱了，为了讨爱人欢心她向他透露案情进展，杰弗里循着线索开始调查……

英国图书管理员Frank (John Simm)爱上了神秘的美国舞蹈演员 Miranda (Christina Ricci)。她突然消失，他追寻她来到伦敦，却发现她是一个诈骗高手。他离开了她，回到了英格兰北部。
Miranda和她的老大(John Hurt)把不属于自己的房子卖给不知情的买家。在一宗大生意之后，老大离她而去，买家 (Kyle MacLachlan) 想要报复Miranda。Frank意识到他不应该离开她，于是他回到伦敦来救她。

故事发生在1973年，荷莉（艾拉·琼斯 Ella Jones 饰）和玛丽娜（安娜·帕波维尔 Anna Popplewell 饰）成为了邻居，两个天真无邪的女孩很快就成为了彼此生命中最重要的存在，她们到哪儿都黏在一起，几乎形影不离。随着时间的推移，两个姑娘渐渐长大，均成为了亭亭玉立的美人。
玛丽娜天性奔放开朗，在她的引导和带领之下，荷莉品尝到了爱情的甜蜜滋味，而第一个同她发生关系的，竟然是玛丽娜的哥哥奈特（Cameron Powrie 饰）。玛丽娜身边的男伴一换再换，她尚且没有安定下来的打算。很快，荷莉就发现，自己中意的男孩们，都成为了玛丽娜裙下的俘虏。悲伤，愤怒，孤独，荷莉心中五味杂陈，她和玛丽娜之间的友情因此而出现了裂痕。

以小镇大学舞会皇后之为故事核心，而吊发出悬疑震撼之名片「双峰」，其结局波折诡谲，引人入胜。大导演大卫林奇以「象人」「沙丘魔堡」「蓝丝绒」扬名影坛。在「双峰」剧中，导演更佳展他个人的魅力。「双峰」的剧情环环相扣，布景豪华，肉欲棋流，对白精彩。评论家为「九０年代最突出作品」。「时代周刊」「新闻周刊」「时人杂志」「纽约时报」美国各大报无不视「双峰」为牛耳！且肯定大卫林奇为希区柯克大师之接班人。

华盛顿州的双峰镇，原是个安静的小镇，但当一位年轻女子罗拉巴玛的尸体被冲上岸后，整个小镇的单纯静逸完全被打破，FBI探员稿考伯奉派调查此案，一连串的迷团围绕着罗拉的死因，神秘事件层出不穷，究竟谁才是凶手……

莱利（凯特林·迪亚斯 Kaitlyn Dias 配音）逐渐适应新城市后，乐乐（艾米·波勒 Amy Poehler 配音）、忧忧（菲利丝·史密斯 Phyllis Smith 配音）、怒怒（刘易斯·布莱克 Lewis Black 配音）、怕怕（托尼·海尔 Tony Hale 配音）和厌厌（莉萨·拉皮拉 Liza Lapira 配音）的“脑内生活”也波澜不惊，直到新情绪焦焦（玛雅·霍克 Maya Hawke 配音）从天而降，发掘心中未知的角落，一起感受喜怒哀乐，五味陈杂的百变情绪。

Act I

A night in winter

[Scene 1]

Aston has invited Davies, a homeless man, into his apartment after rescuing him from a bar fight (7–9). Davies comments on the apartment and criticizes the fact that it is cluttered and badly kept. Aston attempts to find a pair of shoes for Davies but Davies rejects all the offers. Once he turns down a pair that doesn’t fit well enough and another that has the wrong colour laces. Early on, Davies reveals to Aston that his real name is not "Bernard Jenkins", his "assumed name", but really "Mac Davies" (19–20, 25). He claims that his papers validating this fact are in Sidcup and that he must and will return there to retrieve them just as soon as he has a good pair of shoes. Aston and Davies discuss where he will sleep and the problem of the "bucket" attached to the ceiling to catch dripping rain water from the leaky roof (20–21) and Davies "gets into bed" while "ASTON sits, poking his [electrical] plug (21).

[Scene 2]
The LIGHTS FADE OUT. Darkness.

LIGHTS UP. Morning. (21) As Aston dresses for the day, Davies awakes with a start, and Aston informs Davies that he was kept up all night by Davies muttering in his sleep. Davies denies that he made any noise and blames the racket on the neighbors, revealing his fear of foreigners: "I tell you what, maybe it were them Blacks" (23). Aston informs Davies that he is going out but invites him to stay if he likes, indicating that he trusts him (23–24), something unexpected by Davies; for, as soon as Aston does leave the room (27), Davies begins rummaging through Aston's "stuff" (27–28) but he is interrupted when Mick, Aston’s brother, unexpectedly arrives, "moves upstage, silently," "slides across the room" and then suddenly "seizes Davies' "arm and forces it up his back," in response to which "DAVIES screams," and they engage in a minutely-choreographed struggle, which Mick wins (28–29), ending Act One with the "Curtain" line, "What's the game?" (29).
Act II

[Scene 1]
A few seconds later

Mick demands to know Davies' name, which the latter gives as "Jenkins" (30), interrogates him about how well he slept the night before (30), wonders whether or not Davies is actually "a foreigner"—to which Davies retorts that he "was" indeed (in Mick's phrase) "Born and bred in the British Isles" (33)—going on to accuse Davies of being "an old robber […] an old skate" who is "stinking the place out" (35), and spinning a verbal web full of banking jargon designed to confuse Davies, while stating, hyperbolically, that his brother Aston is "a number one decorator" (36), either an outright lie or self-deceptive wishful thinking on his part. Just as Mick reaches the climactic line of his diatribe geared to put the old tramp off balance—"Who do you bank with?" (36), Aston enters with a "bag" ostensibly for Davies, and the brothers debate how to fix the leaking roof and Davies interrupts to inject the more practical question: "What do you do . . . when that bucket's full?" (37) and Aston simply says, "Empty it" (37). The three battle over the "bag" that Aston has brought Davies, one of the most comic and often-cited Beckettian routines in the play (38–39). After Mick leaves, and Davies recognises him to be "a real joker, that lad" (40), they discuss Mick's work in "the building trade" and Davies ultimately discloses that the bag they have fought over and that he was so determined to hold on to "ain't my bag" at all (41). Aston offers Davies the job of Caretaker, (42–43), leading to Davies' various assorted animadversions about the dangers that he faces for "going under an assumed name" and possibly being found out by anyone who might "ring the bell called Caretaker" (44).

[Scene 2]

THE LIGHTS FADE TO BLACKOUT.
THEN UP TO DIM LIGHT THROUGH THE WINDOW.
A door bangs.
Sound of a key in the door of the room.
DAVIES enters, closes the door, and tries the light switch, on, off, on, off.

It appears to Davies that "the damn light's gone now," but, it becomes clear that Mick has sneaked back into the room in the dark and removed the bulb; he starts up "the electrolux" and scares Davies almost witless before claiming "I was just doing some spring cleaning" and returning the bulb to its socket (45). After a discussion with Davies about the place being his "responsibility" and his ambitions to fix it up, Mick also offers Davies the job of "caretaker" (46–50), but pushes his luck with Mick when he observes negative things about Aston, like the idea that he "doesn't like work" or is "a bit of a funny bloke" for "Not liking work" (Davies' camouflage of what he really is referring to), leading Mick to observe that Davies is "getting hypocritical" and "too glib" (50), and they turn to the absurd details of "a small financial agreement" relating to Davies' possibly doing "a bit of caretaking" or "looking after the place" for Mick (51), and then back to the inevitable call for "references" and the perpetually-necessary trip to Sidcup to get Davies' identity "papers" (51–52).

[Scene 3]
Morning

Davies wakes up and complains to Aston about how badly he slept. He blames various aspects of the apartment's set up. Aston suggests adjustments but Davies proves to be callous and inflexible. Aston tells the story of how he was checked into a mental hospital and given electric shock therapy, but when he tried to escape from the hospital he was shocked while standing, leaving him with permanent brain damage; he ends by saying, "I've often thought of going back and trying to find the man who did that to me. But I want to do something first. I want to build that shed out in the garden" (54–57). Critics regard Aston's monologue, the longest of the play, as the "climax" of the plot.[3] In dramaturgical terms, what follows is part of the plot's "falling action".
Act III

[Scene 1]
Two weeks later [… ]Afternoon.

Davies and Mick discuss the apartment. Mick relates "(ruminatively)" in great detail what he would do to redecorate it (60). When asked who "would live there," Mick's response "My brother and me" leads Davies to complain about Aston's inability to be social and just about every other aspect of Aston's behaviour (61–63). Though initially invited to be a "caretaker," first by Aston and then by Mick, he begins to ingratiate himself with Mick, who acts as if he were an unwitting accomplice in Davies' eventual conspiracy to take over and fix up the apartment without Aston's involvement (64) an outright betrayal of the brother who actually took him in and attempted to find his "belongings"; but just then Aston enters and gives Davies yet another pair of shoes which he grudgingly accepts, speaking of "going down to Sidcup" in order "to get" his "papers" again (65–66).

[Scene 2]
That night

Davies brings up his plan when talking to Aston, whom he insults by throwing back in his face the details of his treatment in the mental institution (66–67), leading Aston, in a vast understatement, to respond: "I . . . I think it's about time you found somewhere else. I don't think we're hitting it off" (68). When finally threatened by Davies pointing a knife at him, Aston tells Davies to leave: "Get your stuff" (69). Davies, outraged, claims that Mick will take his side and kick Aston out instead and leaves in a fury, concluding (mistakenly): "Now I know who I can trust" (69).

[Scene 3]
Later

Davies reenters with Mick explaining the fight that occurred earlier and complaining still more bitterly about Mick's brother, Aston (70–71). Eventually, Mick takes Aston's side, beginning with the observation "You get a bit out of your depth sometimes, don't you?" (71). Mick forces Davies to disclose that his "real name" is Davies and his "assumed name" is "Jenkins" and, after Davies calls Aston "nutty", Mick appears to take offense at what he terms Davies' "impertinent thing to say," concludes, "I'm compelled to pay you off for your caretaking work. Here's half a dollar," and stresses his need to turn back to his own "business" affairs (74). When Aston comes back into the apartment, the brothers face each other," "They look at each other. Both are smiling, faintly" (75). Using the excuse of having returned for his "pipe" (given to him earlier through the generosity of Aston), Davies turns to beg Aston to let him stay (75–77). But Aston rebuffs each of Davies' rationalisations of his past complaints (75–76). The play ends with a "Long silence" as Aston, who "remains still, his back to him [Davies], at the window, apparently unrelenting as he gazes at his garden and makes no response at all to Davies' futile plea, which is sprinkled with many dots (". . .") of elliptical hesitations (77–78).

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