The story opens in Balochistan, in a small, scarcely ‘wired’ village bordering Iran and Afghanistan. Ahmad is an idealistic teacher in exile, educating the local community; his partner Haseeba, however, has spent time in jail in Tehran for the very same offence against the State. The disaccord between them is not only social but also personal. Ahmad's destiny collides with that of a family fleeing the Taliban; soon the intricate divisions of age and gender within that group will trigger other problems and entanglements – including a 'lovers on the run' intrigue that fleetingly recalls Murnau's classic Tabu (1931).
Across all the arresting, shifting peripeteia of its plot, Abbas Amini's film deftly dramatises the complicated question of commitment: do we commit ourselves to a political cause, a set of religious beliefs, or a person? And how do we negotiate the commitments of others, even those closest to us, when they are based on a very different value system?
With its sparse music score, densely naturalistic acting and unostentatious camera work, Endless Borders is almost a minimalistic suspense thriller (with Hitchcockian overtones), combined with a heated family melodrama – but it never loses sight of the serious and extremely timely issues that it raises.
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https://iffr.com/en/iffr/2023/films/endless-border
故事发生在美丽而又寒冷的阿拉斯加,艾吉斯石油公司派遣的勘探队的到来打破了此地居民们宁静的生活,地表被掘开,噪音和污染充斥着整个冰原,没过多久,当地的原住民们便与开发公司之间产生了激烈的矛盾。让原住民们感到心寒的是,被利益收买的政府站在了石油公司的那一边。
塔夫特(史蒂文·席格 Steven Seagal 饰)是勘探队中的一员,某日,他邂逅了名为马苏(陈冲 饰)的爱斯基摩少女,马苏的一言一行感化了塔夫特,令他对雇主的所作所为产生了怀疑和反感。为了获得更大的利润,公司总裁迈克尔(迈克尔·凯恩 Michael Caine 饰)决定无视对生态的破坏,扩大开采面积。然而,倒戈的塔夫特无疑成为了他执行阴谋的绊脚石,于是,迈克尔派出了杀手,企图将塔夫特除之而后快。