在德克萨斯州一个名为敖德萨的小城上,种族的歧视和经济的萧条让小城了无生气。唯有每个周五的晚上,沸腾的莱特利弗体育场才会燃起整个小城的生机和活力,所有人的目光都集中在帕米亚高中橄榄球队的队员们身上。帕米亚球队早就向全国证明了自己的实力与成功,他们势要赢得建队30年以来的第五个州冠军。然而球队出现了经济危机,他们不仅要为荣誉而战,更要通过这次比赛向赞助商证明自己的实力,以让赞助商继续投资。球队灵魂教练加里·贾恩斯(比利·鲍伯·松顿 Billy Bob Thornton 饰)以他的铁腕手段率领球队一路拼杀,他说:完美就是能够正视你的朋友,不让他们失望。敖德萨小城人民对他们的支持就是最大的动力,为了捍卫这座小城,队员们将会拼尽全力。
The subject of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub’s Der Tod des Empedokles (The Death of Empedocles, 1987) is the Greek pre-Socratic philosopher Empedocles (c. 490 BC – 430 BC), who lived in the Greek colony of Agrigentum in Sicily. His theories are mentioned in several of Plato’s dialogues. He maintained that all matter is made up of four irreducible elements water, earth, air and fire. A mystic and a poet, he is considered to be the founder of classical rhetoric. He is also thought to be the last Greek philosopher to write in verse; two fragments of his works survive Katharmoi (Purifications) and Peri Phuseôs (On Nature). An advocate of democracy, he came into conflict with his fellow citizens of Agrigentum and, as result, was banished with his young disciple, Pausanius. When he was asked to return, he preferred to commit suicide by throwing himself into the active volcano at Mount Aetna. The German writer Friedrich Hölderlin wrote two versions of Der Tod des Empedokles in 1798 and 1800, and a final third version in 1820, all three ultimately unfinished. They were conceived as five-act tragedies and all three differ in plot. According to Michael Hamburger, Hölderlin’s English-language translator, the main reason why Hölderlin finished no version of the play must be that he remained too closely identified with Empedocles, at the very period in his life when his own view of the poet as philosopher, prophet and priest – and as tragic hero – was subject to perpetual crisis and re-examination. Huillet-Straub’s The Death of Empedocles is based on Hölderlin’s first version (the longest of the three), whereas Black Sin is based on the third version.
在一次挖地超人制造的大混乱中,超人家庭大力神巴鲍伯(格雷格·T·尼尔森 Craig T. Nelson配音)和弹力女超人巴荷莉(霍利·亨特 Holly Hunter 配音)和他们的子女巴小倩(莎拉·沃威尔 Sarah Vowell 配音)、巴小飞(赫克·米尔纳 Huck Milner 配音)使出浑身解数,然而不仅不能抓住狡猾的敌人,而且还因为对城市破坏太大而导致失去了政府的支持。此后不久,电信集团大亨温斯顿·狄弗(鲍勃·奥登科克 Bob Odenkirk 配音)通过酷冰侠鲁休斯(塞缪尔·杰克逊 Samuel L. Jackson 配音)找到鲍伯一家,希望将该公司的前沿技术应用到超人身上,更好地维护世界和平。可是狄弗只希望雇佣荷莉,偏偏荷莉大展雄风,成为了所有超人族群的偶像,这可令担任奶爸的鲍伯心有不甘。
而就在此时,神秘对手悄然出现,似乎正试图摧毁荷莉他们所建立的新和平……