影片描述了美国40年代工人阶级的生活处境、工作条件、所受资本家的压迫、工人们为争取自己应得权利与工作保障所进行的正义斗争，以及工人内部和家庭内部的关系等。 　　美国40年代新墨西哥州的一个城镇矿区，德列维尔锌公司的矿工拉蒙·金泰罗已在井下度过了18年。公司制订的新规章不合理，工人得冒着更大的生命危险下井工作。又一次伤亡事故发生了，工人们提出的合理要求被公司拒绝后，在拉蒙的带领下，工人们开始了罢工。为支持罢工，拉蒙的老婆爱丝波朗莎将妇女组织起来，成为罢工工人有力的后援队。拉蒙被老板买通的警方抓走，一个月后又被放出来。而后老板又买通法院，污蔑工人犯了塔夫脱-哈特莱法，由爱丝波朗莎领导的妇女挺身而出，接替了罢工工人纠察队的工作，因为塔夫脱-哈特莱法不适用于她们。爱丝波朗莎等一干妇女被关了几天后又放了出来，无计可施的老板软硬兼施：一面动员罢工工人去打猎，一面派警察对付留在家里的妇女。多亏拉蒙带领矿工及时赶回，使狼狈的警察无功而返。最后，罢工取得胜利，无奈的老板答应了工人的要求。 　　http://movie.mtime.com/13319/

影片描述了美国40年代工人阶级的生活处境、工作条件、所受资本家的压迫、工人们为争取自己应得权利与工作保障所进行的正义斗争，以及工人内部和家庭内部的关系等。 　　美国40年代新墨西哥州的一个城镇矿区，德列维尔锌公司的矿工拉蒙·金泰罗已在井下度过了18年。公司制订的新规章不合理，工人得冒着更大的生命危险下井工作。又一次伤亡事故发生了，工人们提出的合理要求被公司拒绝后，在拉蒙的带领下，工人们开始了罢工。为支持罢工，拉蒙的老婆爱丝波朗莎将妇女组织起来，成为罢工工人有力的后援队。拉蒙被老板买通的警方抓走，一个月后又被放出来。而后老板又买通法院，污蔑工人犯了塔夫脱-哈特莱法，由爱丝波朗莎领导的妇女挺身而出，接替了罢工工人纠察队的工作，因为塔夫脱-哈特莱法不适用于她们。爱丝波朗莎等一干妇女被关了几天后又放了出来，无计可施的老板软硬兼施：一面动员罢工工人去打猎，一面派警察对付留在家里的妇女。多亏拉蒙带领矿工及时赶回，使狼狈的警察无功而返。最后，罢工取得胜利，无奈的老板答应了工人的要求。 　　http://movie.mtime.com/13319/

长期在外的军人赛回到家乡参加女儿的婚礼。婚礼上欢快的场面让他想起了当年的自己：那时他刚刚12岁，新娘图伊特18岁。图伊特是小妾的女儿，没有什么文化，赛对这个父母硬塞给他的妻子厌恶至极。尽管图伊特竭尽全力想要得到丈夫的爱，但这场带有包办性质的婚姻从一开始就注定是场失败。为了逃避图伊特，赛参了军，并且爱上了另一个女孩，最终选择了离开家乡。 多年以后，在女儿的婚礼上，再一次站在赛身旁的图伊特，泪如泉涌。

长期在外的军人赛回到家乡参加女儿的婚礼。婚礼上欢快的场面让他想起了当年的自己：那时他刚刚12岁，新娘图伊特18岁。图伊特是小妾的女儿，没有什么文化，赛对这个父母硬塞给他的妻子厌恶至极。尽管图伊特竭尽全力想要得到丈夫的爱，但这场带有包办性质的婚姻从一开始就注定是场失败。为了逃避图伊特，赛参了军，并且爱上了另一个女孩，最终选择了离开家乡。 多年以后，在女儿的婚礼上，再一次站在赛身旁的图伊特，泪如泉涌。

讲述了一位来自旺代的底层女性在大革命中的故事

讲述了一位来自旺代的底层女性在大革命中的故事

《难产的社头》是一部基于深厚实地调研的人类学民族志影片。作者吴乔副研究员在云南元江河谷花腰傣地区进行了超过一年半的田野工作，学会了花腰傣语言，记录了整个社区的谱系，用参与观察和深入访谈的方式获取第一手素材，对这个族群的文化有了系统而深入的把握。影片以一个情节完整的故事为线索，从一个少数民族社区的日常生活折射出城镇化、现代化、经济市场化之下农村社会的深刻变化。 　　Each Floral-belt Dai village has a male “Commune-head” who take charge of annual collective ceremonies as “Village Sacrifice” and “Vill age Exorcism”. These are purification rituals and fete for the village’s god “Buzhaoshe”. Besides, there’s a “Village’s Chief Witch” who’s responsible for communication with the god through trance. This man and woman compose the traditional hierarchy of a Dai village. The Commune-head is picked out through a God election ritual. Every adult man of the village offers a clothes and a bowl of rice to the ritual. A presider weighs all candidates’ clothes with a steelyard. With rice putting in or out the clothes, he makes all clothes balanced. Then he prays to the god Buzhaoshe, and weighs the clothes again. This time some clothes turn heavier. The heaviest one enables its owner to be the new Commune-head. This is an old custom of the Dai people which lasts thousands years. But this year we witnessed an unprecedented challenge in the Areca Village. Through the ritual of several days, all chosen ones refused to become Commune-head desperately. The ritual could not be fulfilled in a panic. Villagers disputed over the situation. Powers conflict in this gambling. In the following days, villagers provided four solutions. Among which emerges the tension between tradition and new culture, folk belief and government agents. Days later, Areca Village held a full member gathering, in which villagers made their decision through “voice voting”. Two months later, in the Reelecting of the Village Committee, the old mayor of the village was voted out. A year later, the new mayor made nice to conciliate the tradition power. New balance was established over odds. This becomes the epilogue of this documentary.

《难产的社头》是一部基于深厚实地调研的人类学民族志影片。作者吴乔副研究员在云南元江河谷花腰傣地区进行了超过一年半的田野工作，学会了花腰傣语言，记录了整个社区的谱系，用参与观察和深入访谈的方式获取第一手素材，对这个族群的文化有了系统而深入的把握。影片以一个情节完整的故事为线索，从一个少数民族社区的日常生活折射出城镇化、现代化、经济市场化之下农村社会的深刻变化。 　　Each Floral-belt Dai village has a male “Commune-head” who take charge of annual collective ceremonies as “Village Sacrifice” and “Vill age Exorcism”. These are purification rituals and fete for the village’s god “Buzhaoshe”. Besides, there’s a “Village’s Chief Witch” who’s responsible for communication with the god through trance. This man and woman compose the traditional hierarchy of a Dai village. The Commune-head is picked out through a God election ritual. Every adult man of the village offers a clothes and a bowl of rice to the ritual. A presider weighs all candidates’ clothes with a steelyard. With rice putting in or out the clothes, he makes all clothes balanced. Then he prays to the god Buzhaoshe, and weighs the clothes again. This time some clothes turn heavier. The heaviest one enables its owner to be the new Commune-head. This is an old custom of the Dai people which lasts thousands years. But this year we witnessed an unprecedented challenge in the Areca Village. Through the ritual of several days, all chosen ones refused to become Commune-head desperately. The ritual could not be fulfilled in a panic. Villagers disputed over the situation. Powers conflict in this gambling. In the following days, villagers provided four solutions. Among which emerges the tension between tradition and new culture, folk belief and government agents. Days later, Areca Village held a full member gathering, in which villagers made their decision through “voice voting”. Two months later, in the Reelecting of the Village Committee, the old mayor of the village was voted out. A year later, the new mayor made nice to conciliate the tradition power. New balance was established over odds. This becomes the epilogue of this documentary.