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河马本在非洲，怎会流落南美？又怎说起人类语言，叩问我来自何方、为何讲话、为何被杀等大哉问，仿佛是位哲学家？70年代，哥伦比亚毒枭走私河马，圈养在家当宠物。毒枭死后河马逃窜荒野、繁衍成群，政府认定数量失控、批准猎杀，佩佩成为美洲史上第一只被枪杀的河马。本片以佩佩的死后独白为舵，驾驶狂想飞船穿梭时空，上溯当年莫名渡海来异乡，下述偶遇人类引误解，并将河马的外来种命运化为隐喻，折射出阶级、殖民、独裁等多重命题。。《职场大翻身》改编自李慧林的同名小说，曾执导过《创可贴》的导演郑基勋亲自改写了剧本并执导，联同演技级人马演员郑在泳、新生代人气女星朴宝英、老戏骨吴达秀、裴成宇、柳德焕等实力派连袂主演。电影讲述一名体育报社演艺部记者在采访现场孤军奋战的成长故事。电影中朴宝英饰演的新人实习记者「杜丽熙」在报道娱乐事件的过程中卷入新闻的漩涡而逐渐锻炼成长。郑在泳饰演的是朴宝英的上级「河在观」，是娱乐部的「定时炮弹」不知道何时就会「爆炸」，两人会有怎样的合作火花也令影迷非常期待。 杜丽熙（朴宝英饰）是社会新鲜人的代表，为了在战场一样的职场中生存下来而绞尽脑汁费劲心理，然而却因为没有经验而屡屡闯祸。她梦想着成为成功职场女性，高喊着有热情就有一切的口号，然而现实却是手里的每件事都搞砸。杜丽熙作为见习记者开始了工作，本以为只要进了公司人生就会变得一帆风顺，但她却遇到了像“定时炸弹...。One day, thinking that it will make your wife and friends smile, you shave off the moustache that you have had for the last ten years. No one notices or, even worse, everyone pretends not to notice and your smile soon fades. Before being wiped off your face. You insist but people tell you that you've never had a moustache. Are you going mad? Are people trying to make you think you are? Or has something in the world's order gone awry at your expense? Adapting his own 1986 novel, Emmanuel Carrère – whose books Class Trip and The Adversary became Cannes Competition titles by Claude Miller and Nicole Garcia, respectively – provides a feast of sustained tension as the man's wife and his closest friends deny that he ever had a moustache. Viewers who like their conclusions tidy may rebel, but those who relish outstanding performances in the service of an intriguing idea will be entertained. The film won the Label Europa Cinemas Prize at Directors' Fortnight in Cannes. 一天，你滿心以為給妻子和朋友開個玩笑，把蓄了十年的鬍子刮掉。但可惜完全被人忽視了，或更可悲的是每個人都假裝看不到，很快，你得意的笑容不見了，笑臉再也掛不住。你堅持，但所有人都跟你說你從未蓄過鬍子。莫非你神經錯亂？是否所有人都想令你以為自己瘋掉了？又或者，是因為你的緣故而搞亂了世界的某種秩序？ 本片是導演艾曼雷．卡雷爾改編自他自己一九八六年出版的小說。他的另外兩本小說《 Class Trip 》及《 The Adversary 》曾分別被葛羅特．米勒及妮歌．加西亞兩位導演改編成電影並先後成為康城影展的參選影片。在本片中，因為男人的妻子和老友否認他曾經蓄鬍子而令整個故事維持在緊張的氣氛中。 喜歡結局完整的觀眾可能會感到不高興，但欣賞引人入勝的故事和精湛演技的觀眾則會看得津津有味。本片在康城影展的導演雙週中奪得歐洲電影標籤大獎。 Source: The 34th French Cinepanorama, Hong Kong。
