视频简介
灵感来自罗马尼亚作家马克斯·布雷赫的同名自传式小说。故事发生在1937年，20岁出头的男子伊曼纽因患脊椎骨结核而终日待在黑海沿岸的一家疗养院里，全身打上石膏，动弹不得。在这期间，他与另一位病人索兰芝相爱，这里的病人们虽然身体在慢慢枯萎，但思想不肯屈服，他们谈论文学、哲学与历史，努力活出生命的意义。1939年，这本杰作在罗马尼亚出版，马克斯·布雷赫在经历了10年的痛苦折磨后离开人世，去世时年仅29岁。。Bipedalism, or 'two-footed walking', is the story of a painter who grew up in an orphanage and only years later learns the circumstances of his father's disappearance and death. Childhood memories bring the main character back to the past: he buys a house in the suburbs that used to belong to his family. In the basement, he finds his father's archives and scientific research documents on the hybridization of human race with related biological species. Studying the archive material, he unexpectedly finds evidence of efforts to renew the experiments on the remaining hybrid population. The painter then becomes a researcher, and consequently a victim. The basic idea of his father's research was to change, control and influence the process of human evolution - initially connected with eugenics theories of the period before World War II, and now being placed in a context of modern 'biotechnological' expectations by his former colleagues. The main character tries to recreate and realize his father's heritage, who was forced to cooperate with state terror organizations, using the results of his secret research. In a tragic manner, this information turns into the main character's reality, at first forcing him to reappraise his father's values and later driving him to madness. (http://www.input2002.com/en/film/24418.html)。
