似人非人

　　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 ...

　　太宰治の小説「斜陽」をもとにした本作では太平洋戦争後、没落貴族となった島崎かず子が道ならぬ恋に突き進んでいくさまが描かれる。

　　Cecilia and Emma were tween-age BFFs who were going to grow old together and never let anything come between them, until Alex arrived on the scene. Twelve years later, Cecilia is a successful social media influencer living the dream of an independent, modern millennial woman... until she runs into Emma for the first time in over a decade. Emma invites Cecilia away on her bachelorette weekend at a remote cabin in the mountains, where Alex proceeds to make Cecilia’s weekend a living hell. #triggered

　　在乔布斯离世后，全世界的人们用各种方式纪念这位富有远见的天才，而授权版乔布斯传记作者Walter Isaacson也揭示了许多关于乔布斯私人生活的细节，PBS电视台将于11月2日播放纪念乔布斯的新纪录片“Steve Jobs - One Last Thing”，片中将会将会有大量曾经与乔布斯合作的采访片段。
　　其中包括苹果联合创始人Ronald Wayne，投资NeXT电脑的Ross Perot，“华尔街日报”主要技术专栏作家Walt Mossberg，黑眼豆豆乐队制作人will.i.am，苹果第一代鼠标设计师Dean Hovey，PBS系列片主持人Robert Cringely，里德大学书法教授Robert Palladino以及介绍Woz和Jobs相识的Bill Fernandez。
　　该纪录片还会包含从未播放过的1994年采访乔布斯的片段。乔布斯对生活的理解塑造了他的人格，这也使他为很多行业带来革命性变革。Steve Jobs - One Last Thing”将于下周三，11月2日晚上10点在美国的PBS电视台播出。