七个神经病

 舞台上，著名相声演员舒怀（赵炎 饰）和搭档谢林（郑健 饰）逗得观众哈哈直笑，台下掌声雷动，观众欢呼要求返场，并且要求说个新段子。但是舒怀成名后疲于应对各种社交应酬，没有精力潜心创作，弄得他在梦中困在舞台上羞愧难当。正在焦急万分的时候，他被老婆梅英从睡梦中叫醒，梅英和他商量要给他母亲操办六十大寿。妻子前脚刚走，有客来访邀请舒怀参加即将举行的曲艺大奖赛，当然他必须为此拿出新的段子。舒怀叫上谢林躲到某渔村搞创作，而过上新生活的村里请客送礼的歪风蔚然成行。才出狼穴，又入虎口。 新的人情网让舒怀更加苦不堪言……

　　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.