在险恶的日据时代,赛德克族被迫失去自己的文化信仰,男人须服劳役不得狩猎、女人帮佣不能编织彩衣,骁勇善战的英雄莫那鲁道(林庆台 Ching-tai Lin 饰),见证三十年来的压迫统治。因一场误会种下日警和赛德克族的紧张关係,自此族人便活在恐遭日警报复的阴霾中,忍辱负重的莫那鲁道在深思后,虽知将面临灭族危机,但他明白唯有挺身为民族尊严反击,才能成为真正的赛德克人,于是决心带领族人循着祖灵之训示,夺回属于他们的猎场……。Herbert Vesely was one of the promises for a new German cinema already in the 50's, but after the 60's his star was already dimmed. He made a small number of films in the 70's and 80's, all non too good. This biography of Egon Schiele, one of the most important Austrian artists, is an example of the pretensions and emptiness of a Vesely-film of later date.
The life of Schiele is presented here as a puzzle| well, Vesely thinks that Schiele's life was a puzzle: the core of the story is centered around the famous 1912 pornography trial and using this as base the film shows fragments of past and future. The problem is that it never becomes a unity and that the order of scenes and sequences seems to be at random: a cut-and-paste job that could have had any other result. Indeed, after seeing it twice I am almost convinced of it that a unsatisfactory linear thought-out film was changed into the puzzle in the editing room. Egon Schiele was an enigmatic man, but not a total puzzle, and this film does not bring him any closer.
The films also fails in conveying the eroticism and meaning of the Schiele's paintings: the camera watches and glides over the models without any understanding of Schiele's intentions, we only see beautiful naked bodies. If interested in Schiele, you better buy a book with his works in stead.。