劳瑞尔（朱丽安·摩尔 Julianne Moore 饰）是一位办案经验非常丰富的警探，禁禁谈在岗位上23年，禁禁谈劳瑞尔的办案能力从来都没有输给过任何的一个男同事。然而她有一个秘密，那就是她是一名同性恋者，为了保护自己在警局里的地位，她必须对这个秘密严防死守。某日，劳瑞尔在一场活动中邂逅了名叫黛西（埃利奥特·佩吉 Elliot Page 饰）的女子，黛西是一名汽车修理工，虽然他们两人无论是身份还是年龄都悬殊巨大，但恋人还是彼此吸引最终走到了一起。不幸的是，劳瑞尔发现自己患上了癌症，命不久矣，她打算把自己的养老金转到黛西的名下，以保证她在自己去世之后依然能够拥有她的房子，但劳瑞尔的申请很快就遭到了拒绝。
回复 :妻子去世多年，寡言的山平（笠智众）已习惯被待嫁的女儿道子（岩下志麻）贴心照料的生活。道子表面看来也乐意将老父亲照料，从没流露嫁人的渴望。山平老年乐事是与中学时代的几个老友饮酒叙谈，席间友人每谈及道子的婚事、表示要同她介绍对象，山平总会含糊其辞地拒绝，但怕面对什么，他也并不能想清。不过每次饮酒他都会适可而止，以避免酒醉给道子带来太多麻烦。这日中学同窗聚会，山平得知老师当年漂亮的女儿为将他照顾至今未嫁，后送醉酒的老师归家，见漂亮人儿今已衰老憔悴，他心里一惊，想到道子。其后，他示意道子考虑婚姻大事，道子却理解为父亲在赶她出门悲伤不已，他好言相劝她方含泪点头。道子答应一刻，他又心生无限酸楚。
回复 :诺言（张润泽 饰）自小生活在单亲家庭，父亲（张页石 饰）频频出差，他的童年几乎是在幼儿园和小姨（吴靖 饰）家度过。父亲的工作对诺言来说一直是个谜，他很想知道父亲究竟做什么工作。又要出差的父亲与儿子达成了一项协议，只要他好好学习，出差回来一定给他满意答复。于是诺言和小姨在家度过这个暑假，他每天张望父亲走时的那条弯曲的小路，热切盼望父亲早日归来，了却那久藏心中的谜团。连日暴雨冲毁了小路，诺言思父心切，决心修好这条父亲归来的小路，他幼小的身体滑动在山涧，拣起被雨水冲跑的石块，但无情的雨水把他刚修好的小路又冲垮了，诺言在绝望中哭泣着，远处的小姨知道父爱在诺言心中确立了什么位置......
回复 :“Sangen Om Den Eldröda Blomman” ( “Song Of The Scarlet Flower” ) was a recent and remarkable silent surprise for this Herr Von; the oeuvre is an excellent Herr Stiller silent film that this German count watched in a newly restored and tinted copy. It combines the well-known aesthetics, technical improvements and artistic merits for which the Nordic director was known and praised since those early silent times till today. The film tells of the merry and carefree love life of young Olof ( Herr Lars Hanson ) a woodsman who during his search for true love, seduces many frauleins ( just like this German aristocrat… well, not exactly because the purpose of this Herr Von’s seduction of rich fräulein heiresses are their great fortunes… ). He will suffer disappointment and deception, all those problems that turn up in any loving relationship. Finally he will find responsibility and maturity, learning during his particular quest that his actions always have consequences in different degrees to the people around him. This Herr Von can describe “Sangen Om…” as a kind of coming of age film, the special introspective growth toward maturity of a free and easy youngster. As this German count said before, the film displays Stiller’s characteristic artistic virtues. ; in the first part of the film, we can see elements of comedy, not exactly like the comedy of intrigues in other Stiller films, but humor of a more cheerful sort, highlighting the self-involvement of our hero. Olof ‘s frivolous flirtations with the different girls eventually turn romantic and then turn into drama. There is conflict in the troubled relationship between Olof and his father and later with the father of his beloved. The beautiful and wild natural landscapes of Norrland and northern Sweden lend the tale a certain power and is characteristic of Herr Stiller’s other silents where Nature emerges as an important character in the story. This is strongly reflected throughout the film but especially during the frantic scene wherein Olof descends into the troubled waters of a river, a beautiful metaphor for the hardships that our hero has to endure until he finds himself. “Sangen Om Den Eldröda Blomman” is an excellent, beautiful film, a solid, technically perfect and intricate production of 1919 that demonstrates once again the importance of Herr Stiller for silent film history.
