对有些人来说,工作只为糊口,而对于另一些人,工作是一种召唤。这部纪录片系列探讨了在瞬息万变的时代,工作对现代美国人的意义。
时间是1970年,故事的主角是一只和人类拥有着百分之九十八以上相同基因的黑猩猩,科学家们亲切地称它为尼姆。刚刚出生,尼姆就和母亲分开了,因为他已经成为了一个有趣实验中的重要角色。 之后,尼姆被送入了一个位于曼哈顿的富有家庭之中,在那里,尼姆被善良的“父母”当做人类小孩一般抚养和教育,很快,聪明的尼姆就学会了手语,亦懂得了如何表达自己的愿望和需求。然而,此时问题开始显现,因为尼姆的行为举止已经和人类过于相像了,它开始有了自我意识,甚至觉得自己就是人类的一份子,对于尼姆这样一个即非“人类”,又非“黑猩猩”的“生物”,它会有着怎样的未来呢?
Interviews with friends, family and Sally McNeil herself chart a bodybuilding couple's rocky marriage and its shocking end in a Valentine's Day murder.
Wang Zhenxi works as a “mistress dispeller” in China, hired to maintain the bounds of marriage — and break up affairs — by any means necessary. Untitled Mistress Dispeller Project follows Ms. Wang’s work as she attempts to bring couples back from the edge of crisis, offering strikingly intimate access to private lives usually hidden behind closed doors. The film will shift our sympathies between husband, wife, and mistress to explore the ways class, capital, and cultural norms collide to shape romantic relationships in contemporary China.