自父亲葬礼后，中文字字三兄弟已有一年互不往来。老大弗朗西斯（欧文·威尔逊 Owen Wilson 饰）计划了一次周密的印度旅行，中文字字并告诉弟弟们这是为了找回自我和彼此间的亲情。虽然不热衷这次旅行，试图摆脱各自糟糕生活的老二彼得（艾德里安·布洛迪 Adrien Brody 饰）和老三杰克（詹森·舒瓦兹曼 Jason Schwartzman 饰）还是同意了弗朗西斯的计划。兄弟三人搭乘豪华列车展开了笑料百出的穿越印度之旅，并从沿途各地收集奇怪的纪念品。终于在勾搭完女列车员、放跑作为纪念品买回的眼镜蛇和在列车上大打出手后，他们被忍无可忍的列车长连同所有行李一起扔下了车。虽然一切脱离了弗朗西斯的控制，但这计划外的变故却令兄弟三人更为接近这次旅行的真正目的……本片曾入围第64届威尼斯电影节主竞赛单元。
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回复 :罗生门，日本京都的正南门。云游和尚、砍柴人和乞丐在城门底下避雨，三人闲聊，话题开始，故事的序幕拉开：一个武士和他妻子路过荒山，遭遇了不测。妻子被侮辱，而武士惨遭杀害。惨案如何酿成？凶手、妻子、借武士亡魂来做证的女巫，都各有说法。真相只得一个，但是各人提供证词的目的却各有不同。为了美化自己的道德，减轻自己的罪恶，掩饰自己的过失，人人都开始叙述一个美化自己的故事版本。荒山上的惨案，成了一团拨不开看不清的迷雾。谈论完毕，雨过天晴。砍柴人在罗生门旁发现一个哭泣的弃婴。他决定收养下来，抱着婴孩往夕阳深处走去。
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回复 :“It is a film from an extended series. It is hard to say who is the main character of “The Soviet Elegy.” There are more than a hundred faces of our compatriots. But, of course, it is not by chance that it is the destiny of a famous political figure, Boris Nikolayevitch Yeltsin, that bears a special accent in the film. Though he got to power following quite typical ways, his uncommon character puts him out of the ordinary, and in the author’s opinion it may be determined by his uncommon human nature. Our hero exists within the tragic pattern of the soviet socialist life. He is a character of a drama, of which he is one of the authors. “The Soviet Elegy” can hardly be called a documentary film in the proper sense. Of course, the author guarantees the accuracy of chronology, but he insists on an artistic mode of thinking, not on a political or historical investigation.”
