根据巴金小说《憩园》改编。杨家原是当地显贵，草莓儿子杨梦痴吃喝嫖赌，草莓样样俱全，很快将家业败光，不得已把最后一座花园住宅--憩园卖给了姚国栋。杨梦痴虽悔，却无决心重新做人，终于流落街头，只有小女儿寒儿时常去探望他。一日，寒儿偷入憩园想为父亲摘几枝茶花，遭姚国栋前妻之子小虎毒打。国栋的续弦妻子万昭华很同情寒儿一家的遭遇，由此想到顽劣成性的小虎，决心负起母亲的责任，挽救小虎。然而她的苦心却得不到家人的理解，反遭多方奚落，使她十分痛苦。终于，小虎因行为不检，死于非命，昭华深受刺激，险些流产。至此，国栋愕然醒悟，夫妻俩亦和好如初。剧中一幕夏梦饰演的昭华抱着一本巴金的《家》看得掉眼泪，应该是朱石麟先生对巴金老先生的致敬吧。本片在今天来看，一些性格和道德的分明表现可能略显过时，录影棚的布景更是一眼就能认出来的人工布景，却别有一番文学的张力和神韵。
黄建为
回复 :一部由两个故事架构而成的电影，两个故事分别发生在大城市和小城镇，两群正值青春期的孩子在各自的生活环境中寻找着自己青春的出口，他们的故事看上去并没有直接的逻辑关系，但是他们的命运却在隐隐中相互牵连影响着。青春就像一次旅行，两个城市的孩子都在自己的轨迹去进行着自己的旅程，他们迷惑、压抑、找不到方向，但是他们却一直紧携着手里的地图，期待着有一天可以把它在生命中摊开……
回复 :The subtitle of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet’s first feature, from 1965, “Only Violence Helps Where Violence Reigns,” suggests the fierce political program evoked by their rigorous aesthetic. The pretext of the film, set in Cologne, is Heinrich Böll’s novel “Billiards at Half Past Nine,” which they strip down to a handful of stark events and film with a confrontational angularity akin to Bartók’s music that adorns the soundtrack. The subtlest of cues accompany the story’s complex flashbacks. The middle-aged Robert Fähmel tells a young hotel bellhop of persecutions under the Third Reich; his elderly father, Heinrich, an architect famed for a local abbey, recalls the militarism of the First World War, when his wife, Johanna, incurred trouble for insulting the Kaiser. A third-generation Fähmel is considering architecture, just as the exiled brother of Robert’s late wife, returns, only to be met by their former torturer, now a West German official taking part in a celebratory parade of war veterans. Straub and Huillet make the layers of history live in the present tense, which they judge severely. The tamped-down acting and the spare, tense visual rhetoric suggest a state of moral crisis as well as the response—as much in style as in substance—that it demands.
周成龙
回复 :母亲死后，原本生活在被大量外国移民视为淘金天堂的“元都”少女被送到妓女固力果（卓娜）处，将少女暂时收留后，固力果依据纹在胸前的蝴蝶给她取名凤蝶（伊藤步）。不久，凤蝶在固力果的带领下于名为“青空”的废品安置区兼汽车修理站，结识了火飞鸿、狼朗等来自不同国家的“元盗”，并逐渐与他们熟识成为好友。一盘录有美国歌曲《My Way》并隐藏有制造伪钞磁性感应资料的磁带令众人一夜致富，而在发财后，他们也开始走上不同道路，其中有出色演唱天赋的固力果被唱片公司签下，并在公司逼迫下与大伙断了关系。而磁带的主人，黑社会老大刘梁魁（江口洋介）得知磁带下落后，开始派手下追杀火飞鸿、固力果等人，众人的命运开始相互牵制。
