This dark, black-and-white documentary is an intimate portrait of a man who has spent half his life in prison. Following his release, he is now back to his old tricks in an industrial city in northeastern China. We are introduced to him by his sister, who visits him in the house where he lives with his wife. She explains that Fourth Brother, or Si Ge, as she calls him, disappeared when she was seven or eight and they only met again 20 years later. The camera follows the brother in his exploits and records his elaborate descriptions of pickpocketing techniques and stories about how he ended up in jail: a game of Mah-jongg got out of hand and turned into a fight involving Fourth Brother’s gang, and people got killed. In jail, he managed to avoid police bullying and outright torture by the highly inventive but nonetheless gruesome method of self-mutilation. But now there is drinking and smoking and laughing to be done, and at times the viewer forgets for a moment just how hopeless this existence really is.

This dark, black-and-white documentary is an intimate portrait of a man who has spent half his life in prison. Following his release, he is now back to his old tricks in an industrial city in northeastern China. We are introduced to him by his sister, who visits him in the house where he lives with his wife. She explains that Fourth Brother, or Si Ge, as she calls him, disappeared when she was seven or eight and they only met again 20 years later. The camera follows the brother in his exploits and records his elaborate descriptions of pickpocketing techniques and stories about how he ended up in jail: a game of Mah-jongg got out of hand and turned into a fight involving Fourth Brother’s gang, and people got killed. In jail, he managed to avoid police bullying and outright torture by the highly inventive but nonetheless gruesome method of self-mutilation. But now there is drinking and smoking and laughing to be done, and at times the viewer forgets for a moment just how hopeless this existence really is.

关于青春。邂逅。分离。回忆。

关于青春。邂逅。分离。回忆。

电影讲述了喜欢收集蜗牛的唇腭裂女孩格雷丝与双胞胎弟弟吉尔伯特自小父母双亡，兄妹俩被送往不同的寄养家庭，被迫分别的痛苦让格雷丝对生活失去希望，蜗牛坚硬的外壳成为她抵抗外界恶意的避风港，但也因此将内心封闭，失去前进的脚步。直到老奶奶萍奇的出现，才打破格雷丝如一潭死水的生活，带给她重拾一切的信心，以及打破人生牢笼的勇气。在格雷丝开始向前看的时候，突然传来了有关她弟弟的消息……

喜欢收集蜗牛的女孩格蕾丝（莎拉·斯努克 Sarah Snook 配音）在被迫与双胞胎吉尔伯特（柯蒂·斯密特-麦菲 Kodi Smit-McPhee 配音）分开后，结识了古怪的老奶奶萍奇（杰基·韦佛 Jacki Weaver 配音），逐渐找到新的希望和快乐。

在电影里，索拉纳斯使用采访和档案材料揭露了阿根廷最近经济危机和全球化对打丁美洲的冲击，全面回顾83年军政府倒台后阿根廷20多年来的种种社会乱象。

在电影里，索拉纳斯使用采访和档案材料揭露了阿根廷最近经济危机和全球化对打丁美洲的冲击，全面回顾83年军政府倒台后阿根廷20多年来的种种社会乱象。

The 18th century tale of a youngster whose memories, recounted after death, are a long series of wrong moral choices ending up with his killing his evil alter-ego, that is committing suicide.