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　　丽兹（索拉·伯奇 Thora Birch饰）出生在美国的贫民窟里，从小就开始承受着家庭的千疮百孔，父母酗酒吸毒，母亲患上了精神分裂症。贫穷的丽兹需要出去乞讨，流浪在城市的角落，生活的苦难似乎无穷无尽。
　　随着慢慢成长，丽兹知道，只有读书成才方能改变自身命运，走出泥潭般的现况。她从老师那里争取到一张试卷，漂亮的完成答卷，争取到了读书的机会。从现在起，丽兹在漫漫的求学路上开始了征程。她千方百计申请哈佛的全额奖学金，面试时候连一件像样的衣服也没有。然而，贫困并没有止住丽兹前进的决心，在她的人生里面，从不退缩的奋斗是永恒主题。

　　8 years after Rakesh Mahadkar reigned terror on Mumbai, another serial killer has taken birth. More brutal and more dangerous but one that uses the same cover, the Smiley Mask. Ek Villain Returns is the story of two men in one sided love. The paths they

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　　Like Fritz Lang, David Fincher or Bong Joon Ho before him, talented debut filmmaker Lado Kvataniya uses the concept of police detective vs serial killer for an excitingly stylised, macabre and haunting narrative, that ultimately revolves around the identity of an era: in this case, the late 1980s Soviet Union. With Glasnost and the end of communist rule, the West also learned of the (unsurprising) fact that there were serial killers in Russia too – the most notorious case probably that of Andrei Chikatilo, nicknamed the Rostov Ripper, or the Russian Hannibal Lecter.
　　Based on these and many other sources, Kvataniya and screenwriter Olga Gorodetskaya constructed an immersive psychological puzzle, jumping back and forth in time, to reveal ever new-possible motives for the actions of all the protagonists. It all starts in 1990, when Detective Issa Davydov is celebrating his promotion and receives a call, reporting a crime that looks precisely like the ones of the serial killer that he famously captured some years before ...

　　我們的宗教就是你的宗教！不信我們的宗教就訓你！一群年輕女性，信奉容貌就該乾淨，舉止就該端莊婉約，交友就該純潔自愛。她們深信耶穌和傳統教條，殷切等待某日走進家庭婚姻；夜幕降臨，她們卻在城市裡襲擊她們眼中行為不檢點的單身女子，處以私刑一陣毒打，要求在鏡頭前懺悔，甚至傳網公審。
　　女子之一的瑪麗雅，在某次夜晚行動中傷到無暇的臉龐，留下傷疤，心中堅若磐石的信仰也逐漸崩解；得不到的永遠在騷動，她開始質疑自己的信仰，想起傳言中她們教訓過的一位女子，近乎毀容的臉龐。瑪麗雅精神上逐漸和那樣宛若梅杜莎的面容疊合⋯⋯面對社會沈重的期待、宗教窒息式的束縛，終於大聲吼叫出來！

原本生活在城市的方方，因妈妈出差，被送往乡下一段时间。初到这里，他满心抵触，对沉默的哑巴外公和小朵充满厌烦。然而，在乡村质朴的生活中，他们一起劳作、嬉戏，彼此陪伴。渐渐地，小男孩心中的坚冰融化从厌恶转变为喜爱与他们建立起了深厚而温暖的感情。