影片讲述了红姐在动荡的社会背景下的命运多舛，这也是他们这一代普通人的共同命运的故事。
故事发生在1969年的一个冬天，女友的意外死亡让艾伦（乔纳森·杰克逊 Jonathan Jackson 饰）陷入了无尽的悲痛和恐惧之中去，经过漫长的时间洗礼和好友洁西卡的（埃丽卡·克里斯滕森 Erika Christensen 饰）耐心劝说，艾伦内心的痛苦才略有减轻。就在艾伦的心情慢慢恢复的节骨眼上，母亲受伤弥留的消息犹如一盆冷水当头浇下，为了能够见母亲最后一面，艾伦毫不犹豫的踏上了前往路易斯通医院的旅途。 在路上，艾伦搭上了一辆便车，令他没有想到的是，驾驶此车的农夫乔治（大卫·阿奎特 David Arquette 饰），其真实身份竟然是残酷嗜血的死神。为了能够顺利到达终点，艾伦必须机智应对乔治所抛出的一连串尖刻的提问，这些问题无一不与艾伦内心的阴暗面紧紧相连。在光明和黑暗之间，在生存和死亡之间，艾伦必须做出抉择。
唯一由默片拍到現在的導演，迪‧奧利菲拉可說是活動電影博物館了。大師一百歲又生猛出招啦！這一招是個完美無瑕的道德故事，玩卡夫卡式的寓言不止，更曲筆擺出華麗古典版布紐爾格局。倒楣的馬加里奧一見鍾情對窗金髮女，但當美人被追到手，情卻隔了幾重山：叔父的反對、經濟的拮据，最後竟是金髮女的問題。生命果然是個謎。最精彩的是爐火純青的畫面，伺機同你暢遊葡萄牙文化藝術，文學金句、音樂、名畫……讓你飽覽而回。 O incansável Manoel de Oliveira, com mais de 100 anos, começou a sua carreira no tempo do cinema mudo. O seu filme mais recente, uma adaptação de um conto do século XIX, é, sem dúvida, um dos mais interessantes dos últimos anos. A premissa é simples: num comboio, um homem conta a sua história de amor e desilusão a uma atenta dama de meia-idade. O seu objecto de desejo? A rapariga loura que dá o nome ao filme. Embora em estilo de fábula, breve e divertida, o significado intelectual torna esta surpreendente estória tão moderna quanto anacrónica. The tireless Manoel de Oliveira, now over 100 years old, can trace his directorial career back to the silent era. His newest film, an adaptation of a 19th century short story, is easily one of his most enjoyable in recent times. The premise is simple: while on the train, a man recounts his tale of love and woe to a receptive middle-aged lady. His object of desire? The titular blond-haired girl. Though fable-like, droll and brief, the intellectual heft makes this surprising tale both modern and anachronistic.
As a child, Luther Watts was deeply affected by seeing a circus geek (someone who bites the heads off live chickens in a circus sideshow). Finally paroled after serving 20 years in prison, he terrorizes the residents of his hometown by making chicken noises, crowing like a rooster and attacking people. He winds up at a farm run by a woman and her daughter, where he takes them captive and then starts killing off her neighbors. The mother realizes she and her daughter must escape before he kills them, too.
在一个滂沱大雨的夜晚，辣手干探Chul-jung在监视行动中突然人有三急，却找不到「解决」的地方。当他躲在灯柱完成「解决」后，一个穿著雨衣的神秘男人与他擦身而过。Chul-jung认为此人形迹可疑，上前查问，突然间神秘男子手中的利刀一闪而过，Chul-jung眼角流血，神秘男人亦瞬即不见了踪影。 一星期后，Chul-jung驻守的地区发生了一宗凶杀案。死者是一对年老的夫妇，警方发现他们是被捅多刀致死的，现场亦留下了行凶的凶器。可是，大家对这宗案件仍毫无头绪。Chul-jung仔细观察尸体，突然想起当晚曾在雨中被神秘男人击倒的事，并认得凶器和那个男人手持的刀一样。Chul-jung因此锁定了那个男人便是杀人凶手。 经过连番调查，Chul-jung直觉认为投资公司顾问Kyu-hwan的嫌疑最大，可是却苦无证据。Chul-jung利用了自己的职权，不顾一切的派员跟踪Kyu-hwan，甚至不惜任何代价，都要令Kyu-hwan露出马脚，找到杀人的证据。然而，Kyu-hwan亦并非等闲之辈，他利用了自己的权势，令Chul-jung被降职，以求令Chul-jung停止对自己的滋扰。就在这时，另一宗谋杀案又发生了，手法跟第一宗亦一模一样…… 全片充满北野武式的暴力影像与黑色幽默，血液喷涌的枪伤、利刃狂插的杀人场景，在怵目惊心之余，也质疑所谓公理正义的真谛。
