贵妃生存法则

  一个没有家庭温暖的小孩乔波，自母亲过量吸毒而亡后，被外婆接回一个经营毒品的家庭。整个贩毒家庭已经充满困兽般的躁动，乔波因一场对警察的复仇而卷入泄密的嫌疑。最终女朋友被害二准备做犯罪的证人。电影高潮在这里展开：犯罪的证人，家族的香火，复仇的怒火，求生的欲望，与最终罪恶的本能交织在一起，塑造一个未成年人崎岖的强大过程。生存危机的生活是人性的地狱烈火

Welcome to the Melbourne underworld. Following the death of his mother, seventeen year-old Joshua 'J' Cody (newcomer James Frencheville) moves in with his hitherto-estranged family, under the watchful eye of his doting grandmother, Janine 'Smurf' Cody (Jacki Weaver), and her three criminal sons - the Cody boys.

Eldest son and armed robber, Andrew 'Pop' Cody (Ben Mendelsohn) is in hiding from a gang of renegade detectives. Middle brother Craig (Sullivan Stapleton) is a successful but volatile drug dealer, whilst the youngest Cody, Darren (Luke Ford), naïvely) follows his elder brothers' lead. Just as Pope's business partner and best friend, Barry Brown (Joel Edgerton), decides that he wants our of the game, recognising that their days of old-school banditry are all but over, tensions between the family and the police explode.

J finds himself at the centre of a cold-blooded revenge plot that turns his family upside down and which throws him directly into the path of senior homicide detective, Nathan Leckie (Guy Pearce).

Animal Kingdom is a powerful crime drama exploring the tense battle between a criminal family and the police, and the ordinary lives caught in the middle.

Animal Kingdom is the debut of writer/director David Michôd whose previous short films have screened extensively internationally and in Australia, including the multi-award winning Crossbow. And AFI award-winning writer, Michôd also wrote the screenplay for this project.

Animal Kingdom is presented by Screen Australia and Porchlight Films, in association with Film Victoria, Screen NSW, Fulcrum Media Finance, Showtime Australia and Madman Entertainment in association with Jetty Distribution.

from http://www.animalkingdommovie.com/

來自澳洲的電影"Animal Kingdom"獲多個提名, 包括奧斯卡(最佳女配角), 在當地更獲不少獎項. 更在美國的Sundance Film Festival拿了Grand Jury Prize.

真的一個野獸家族, 上至祖母下至孫兒都不是泛泛之輩.

第一幕是兒子Joshua(James Frecheville/男主角)目睹母親吸毒暴斃, 未成年又無親無顧, 唯有打電話去找許久沒聯絡的祖母(Jacki Weaver). 寄居在祖母家, 一屋都是毒犯或劫匪的舅父.

節奏緊湊, 劇情流暢, 演員都有水準. 最欣賞是年輕男主角James Frecheville, 戲份最多亦擔綱得起. 當然獲最佳女配角提名的祖母Jacki Weaver更是全片的另一支柱.

喜歡那幕一屋都是警察, 兒子們都被拘捕了, 她卻悠然自得地坐在餐桌前, 手慢慢地提起杯中的茶包, 臉上的笑容到現在我還記憶猶新.

最後一幕令人意想不到, 給電影一個又一個的高潮來個完滿的終結.

飾演探長的Guy Pearce是另一個出眾的演員.

看特刊介紹, 電影據真人真事寫成, 導演說"其實是發生在80年代末墨爾本一宗特定事件." 不過他"不想把影片背景放在80年代... 把電影設置在沒特定的過去... "

       电影的开头，面无表情的少年Josh说，"I didn't realized at that time,but they're all scared,even if they didn't show."电影的最后，富有生气的警探Leckie说，"you'll come unstuck.I've got a felling about it,I think you do,too.''
       过去做过什么不重要，电影里也只在片头一小段告诉我们uncles过去的勾当，重要的是以后怎么生活。强者相互争斗，弱者寻找强者寻求庇护，无论如何，都生活在恐惧中。
   
    我不知道Josh是什么时候下定的决心也不知道他为什么要这么做。是为了替Nicle报仇，还是想摆脱生活的现状？但从他决定的那一刻起，丛林里即将产生新的狮王，并不是说他一定会强大起来，而是他不再惧怕自己的恐惧。
    剧末溅到墙壁上的血花让人想起了《大象》，但我想，最后谁也无法存活。

    再提一下Crag，也许他失控不是因为害怕，而是预感到所有人都在劫难逃。而Grandma一定是最明白这一点的人，所以她只想和孩子们呆在一起，无论何时，因为这是她最后也是唯一可以做到的事。

詹姆斯·弗兰切威勒演技挺好的。
开头一幕就显示了男主角的内心是有些冰冷的。母亲死了，警察过来了，他却在交代时还有些心不在焉的瞄着电视。到外婆家后，对于周围的

以母亲之死起始，意味深长，似乎告知一名幼儿进入动物王国的开端。
以犯罪家族为体，危险纷杂，深邃描绘一群高级物种残暴孤独的本真。
以混乱无序贯穿，深沉冷漠，近乎绘制一幅动物世界原始无理的面貌。
以教父之死结束，突兀血腥，意在宣布一位成人完成丛林考验的洗礼。
以内向孤男为引，彷徨叵测，生动记录一个稚嫩个体走向兽性的全过程。