旅居海外的华侨总会想在三十层楼上修建一座苏州园林，黄子郎受命来到故土苏州选聘能工巧匠。经过王教授的推荐和严格考核，中选者却是只有初中文凭、连正式瓦工都没混上的晶晶，而且负责这项工程的设计师严芳芳竟然爱上了这位小伙子，同时还引出了另外一对半百老人的奇特姻缘。
小学教师梅阿满为学校办厂的事去外地出差，屡遭不顺，倒霉的事接连不断。梅阿满遇上一身恶习的无业少年姚小胖，闹了一路笑话。住旅馆时，姚小胖走错房间，致使一个被拐卖的农村姑娘游秀英和阿满稀里糊涂的住了一夜。没想到，秀英却看上了本分的阿满。阿满遇到早年的学生，今天已是动人女作家的春梅。春梅一套性开放的理论吓的阿满叫苦不迭。惊险可笑的旅途结束了。阿满的正直使姚小胖走上了正路，他的侠义也使秀英重归故里。
An outstanding comedy whose poetic style hearkens back to the films of Wes Anderson. It tells of a youngster focused on winning the nationwide drumming championship in spite of certain obstacles – such as not having any drums! A film that is every bit as hardcore as Jimmy Page’s guitar, and every bit as endearing as Robert Plant’s waistcoats. There are a lot of films that stick to the hackneyed theme of the outsider bent on fulfilling his dream in spite of all the odds – thanks to which he not only achieves his coveted success but, moreover, instils hope in the hearts of the weak and degraded through his courage and determination. But none of these films has had a protagonist as charismatic as Power – a young man obsessed with drumming drumlessly (read: steady gesticulation set to the rhythm of legendary heavy metal anthems), whose aim is to win the nationwide drumming championship, support striking miners in New Mexico and win the heart of a girl who went deaf at the age of three at a Status Quo concert. This brilliant comedy – reminiscent of the films of Wes Anderson in its fascination with bizarre twists on standard genre themes – will thrill you even if you are not a fan of 1970s hard-rock dinosaurs. But you mustn’t forget Power’s creed while you’re watching: “I don’t need drums. I am drums!" About the director Ari Gold received a Student Oscar in 2000 for his film Helicopter, an experimental short film in which he used authentic photography, scene reconstructions and animated sequences to tell of the tragic death of his mother. The Sundance Festival accepted Gold’s short student films for three consecutive years, and one of them – the sixty-second film Culture, which the filmmaker accompanied with a 10-point manifesto signed with the pseudonym Ari von Gold – elicited (particularly in Serbia) a wave of similar films of exactly one minute in length avowing “Dogma 99”. In addition to filmmaking, Ari Gold is also a dedicated musician – he sings in the bands The Honey Brothers and The Gold Brothers, he plays the ukulele, the piano and occasionally the drums. The film Adventures of Power is his first feature-length film.
