视频简介
Bipedalism, or 'two-footed walking', is the story of a painter who grew up in an orphanage and only years later learns the circumstances of his father's disappearance and death. Childhood memories bring the main character back to the past: he buys a house in the suburbs that used to belong to his family. In the basement, he finds his father's archives and scientific research documents on the hybridization of human race with related biological species. Studying the archive material, he unexpectedly finds evidence of efforts to renew the experiments on the remaining hybrid population. The painter then becomes a researcher, and consequently a victim. The basic idea of his father's research was to change, control and influence the process of human evolution - initially connected with eugenics theories of the period before World War II, and now being placed in a context of modern 'biotechnological' expectations by his former colleagues. The main character tries to recreate and realize his father's heritage, who was forced to cooperate with state terror organizations, using the results of his secret research. In a tragic manner, this information turns into the main character's reality, at first forcing him to reappraise his father's values and later driving him to madness. (http://www.input2002.com/en/film/24418.html)。故事背景是二次世界大战后美国中西部小镇，一位作家回到伊利诺州的老家，在那里邂逅了在死亡边缘挣扎的赌徒，他俩到处游荡，试图使这个小镇起死回生，期间，他又碰到了一个放荡性感的女子爱上了他，反映他从渴望成名到觉醒的一段心路历程。全片文学气息浓厚，像是作家心理研究的个案多於一个戏剧故事，但导演文森特．明尼里成功地营造了时代气氛，对於几个主角的复杂性格也做了深入而有趣的刻画，演员演得有神彩，在平凡事件中令人感受到人生的苦与乐。。