For 27-year-old Ben (Josh Lawson), life couldn’t be better. A well paid job, friends, parties, girls and nothing to tie him down. But when he is invited back to his old school to join several other ex-students including Alex (Rachael Taylor) and Jim (Ed Kavalee) in talking about their personal achievements, something goes wrong. Ben is the only speaker not to be asked a question by the school kids. This triggers a year of soulsearching and looking for answers in all the wrong places.
From his best friend Andy (Christian Clark) whose solution is that they both take another holiday, to his mentor Sam (Lachy Hulme) who loans him a sports car in the belief that there’s nothing like excessive speed to resolve emotional turmoil. Not even Ben’s father (Rob Carlton) or friends Nick (Daniel Henshall) and Em (Felicity Ward) can offer much in the way of meaningful guidance.
Of course, it’s not easy seeking enlightenment in nightclubs, or on the ski fields of New Zealand, and when you start dating a Russian tennis star things can get really complicated. As the poster boy for a generation desperate to tick every box, Ben begins to suspect that the meaning of life may well reside in the things he's already doing - and a girl he used to know.
乡村小子怀揣着自大的文学抱负逆袭失败，小丑一样的在贵族圈走了一遭，最后带着失败回到乡下
巴尔扎克的原著很扎实，改编得也很成功，复辟时期巴黎社会众生相，去年能战胜其他众多强片获得凯撒奖当之无愧。
興衰史的敘事感很流暢 文字的書寫以及編輯室猴子鴨子的混亂感很中我的命門了 一方面也是我欽羨的世界 瘋狂恣意隨性 掌握筆桿的人有話語權(想當一次惡勢力XD)but希望大家真的 一個半小時能講完的話不要拖拖拉拉講不完帶壞節奏
资本的世界，都是玩物，有权有财，才是赢家—导演李玉超
比预想好太多！！剧情的戏剧和细节的呼应、人物立体的塑造，加上反复的象征隐喻，把disenchantment的主题放在了几世纪前巴黎的浮华大背景，讲述了一个人不断寻求改变或被迫改变但逃不过某种执念的宿命。
＃Venezia78＃展映 还好，原来是Billy Boy的续集。特别喜欢电影能保持冷静克制的镜头，枪战也迅速果断。虽看得出时代对西部片赋予了新的意义，也是西部片慢慢消逝的象征。然后儿子角色塑造不成功。
这情节和红与黑的于连好像啊。看来天才穷小子到大城市寻梦幻灭的故事真是亘古不变呀。
谁能想到近200年后……娱乐圈 文学界和新闻界的还是一样 要不能是经典名著呢 “天欲其亡 必令其狂”
不要无谓的追求人生中的幻光啊。
surprisingly我挺惊喜的，可能因为预期比较低并且没看过原著，就像我在没看过The Great Gatsby的时候觉得改编的电影版很好一样
还不错，超出预期。就是发现Xavier Dolan的脸已经经不起大银幕特写了。
金句频出，挖苦四起，时评弹幕比主线情节精彩系列。
很扎实，而且很好看（重点）。能从旁白中窥出原著的魅力，勾引你去读巴尔扎克的那种魅力。
“你可以从长处上去挑毛病，向来是机智的做法。”
第一次看觉得很嘲讽，后来回味：为什么世界就不能是一个懵懂热情的乡下少年所想象的那样直接而美好呢？
虚假的新闻与评论，丑恶的嘴脸与现实，必然导致最终的理想幻灭。
时光总无情，渺渺红尘万般妄。
得亏有文本的厚度。借古讽今了，一路看下来，满腔的怒火。一个最天真的女性就这么死了。
反面版本的Bel ami，Dolan的旁白太好听了，看完又让人相信爱情了呜呜。
我真没想到会被这么古（老）典（旧）的叙事感染到，一些地方值得细品。
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