With a helicopter circling over two abandoned boats in the ocean, the floating corpses at the beginning bring about a total recall of the migrant/refugee crisis in the 2010s. Also coming by boat and ending their lives in the ocean, the Asian refugees disappeared into the void zone amidst the world of boundaries. In the Suspended Step of the Stork, Angelopoulos gives the most poetic depiction of the most powerful socio-political force since the twentieth century: the border. The “stork” is a metaphor for human beings, the very moving agents, and the “suspended step” shows none but the modern plight of human beings in the face of their own creation – “One more step, one will be somewhere else. Or die.” Hence the title of the film, in its most frightening and saddest meaning.

The film revolves around two central characters, a former Greek politician who now lives in despair and incognito and a documentary director who wishes to capture the condition of refugees. Their storylines intersect in a town near the border that separates Albania from Greece, named by its locals as “The Waiting Room” as thousands of illegal emigrants wait here until the Greek government allows them to leave. Although the name of the town suggests its temporary nature, it is indeed the temporary home, if not a permanent one, to the refugees. Here, the uncertainty about how long these illegal temporary residents would actually stay in “The Waiting Room” hints at the ambiguous distinction between “home” and “elsewhere”. Although they have successfully crossed the borders, they are still left in a self-contained “elsewhere” made by borders. How many borders do they need to cross before they reach “home”? It is with this ambiguity that Angelopoulos is able to raise his central question in the words of the documentary director. “When does one decide to leave? How? And where to?”

Among those stories in “The Waiting Room”, the most impressive comes from the wedding between a Greek bride and an Albanian groom, taking place on both sides of the river which divides not only the two countries but also thousands of families. The wedding is gently shot with a silent long-take yet with an extremely powerful tension. It shows a figurative dimension of the separation created by the borders, for they are not only dividing people physically (by setting geographical boundaries crossing which one will die) and politically (by providing new meanings and aspects of one’s identity) but also separating one’s present from his or her past. The bride says on the eve of her wedding that, “My husband and I grew up in the same village. One night he’ll cross the river and come take me.” This is largely a shared story among those thousands of refugees in the town. By leaving their “home” and crossing the border, they also leave their past behind. Here, the border is both a deadly frontier that divides wives from husbands and a ruthless boundary drawn within one’s personal experiences. With this assumed dimension, the audience sees how the means of life are made possible in an extreme condition where the ends of life no longer exist.

It is only in light of this dimension can one fully understand the other half of the film, the Greek politician’s disappearing by crossing the border. While all the majority keep their steps suspended in the air, waiting to be accepted to stay or be allowed to leave, he takes a step forward to the “home” at the cost of his past and identity. A believer of the universal ideal of brotherhood, he presents a more despairing yet hopeful interpretation of the “Storks” by embracing the collective dream and taking actions accordingly. And this action, risky and idealized as it is, might also be the answer that Angelopoulos will offer to his earlier question(s), and with this assumed attitude, one may find Suspended Step a work with stirring idealism, intense seriousness, and great courage.

内容跟现实很相符，劳动是光荣的，劳动是伟大的，我们应尊重他们，以劳动者为榜样，这部电影不错，贴近我们的生活，给了我们很多的启发，当今社会人们的道德观暖不是从前了这个很好，希望会有更多的人来看。这样就会很多人有这个体会。故事要精彩，看着一位腿脚不便拄着拐棍的老大爷，正步履蹒跚地往前走着，有一处有个台阶，老大爷抬了很多次腿，终于踏了上去，却又斜斜地倒下。老大爷在地上挣扎了很久，愣是爬不起来。路上人来人往，愣是没有人去帮他。这时，一个骑着摩托车的小伙出现了。他本来已经开过了，又折回去把大爷扶起来！

所有演员演技全部在线，包括AB。在倒数第二集之前，所有人设都立的住、矛盾集中，所有故事线直奔一个点，让人充满期待，但最后崩的连渣都不剩，就像所有人一起扯开一个大幕去盖一坨屎，毫无逻辑可言。1：美宝，都准备牺牲自己了，伪装成防卫过当，不小心捅死了或者敲死颜永原不香吗？又不是激情杀人，都关一年了也没人调查失踪人口，就脑袋瓜一热整出个让自己直接团灭的方法？2：李茉莉、丁小玲，咱不知道你们这么好的家庭条件搞不定一个混混？咱也不知道密闭的房间里美宝在那躺着，颜永原当着你们的面跑了，就直接判断出美宝是自杀的？咱更不知道这种情况下你怎么就知道美宝已经死了，不应该先叫救护车吗？退一万步讲，就算组团栽赃颜永原，假装和美宝不认识这开玩笑呢，颜最后被抓肯定会交代被你们几个小姐妹拘禁，警方肯定要调查吧，大楼监控、学校档案啥的都是铁证啊！3：钟建国，最后一集那个故事，警察在队友和歹徒殊死搏斗的关键时候去救一个中枪的嫌犯？赤手空拳的您怎么救，咱就不能就手花个半分钟把歹徒先制伏了吗？4：预结案时候路人警官小X：稿子念的很带劲儿，“美宝脑后受伤吸收大量二氧化碳自杀死亡”，美宝被您敲晕的哥哥？

后两集想玩反转，但太多bug了，崩成这样太可惜。睡觉了，预计评分顶多过6，不破7。

　　其实，上世纪八十年代后期，楼主母亲所在的湘北某县邮电局便通过闭路电视向本单位干部、职工及家属播放过１９６９年公映的这部台湾电影——《雪娘》的录像带。播映的那天晚上，楼主父母、楼主本人一家三口一起观看了这部录像。当时的观感是觉得片子非常骇人。当然了，那时的楼主不过是个稚童，心智远未发育成熟。少年儿童观看恐怖影视剧远比成年人更容易被作品编导牵着鼻子走，年幼的楼主自然也不例外。

　　近些年来，中国大陆互联网上出现了关于所谓到目前为止影视剧历史上最吓人的一版《画皮》题材作品是所谓“合拍影片”——所谓“８０版＜画皮＞”的传说，越传越玄乎，似乎真的是不少大陆“７０后”、“８０后”人士的特殊集体记忆。

　　经过楼主的查阅、思考，得出的结论是：根本不存在所谓“合拍影片”——所谓“８０版＜画皮＞”。相当一部分保有相关特殊集体记忆的人员看过的那部电影正是这部１９６９年版台湾恐怖影片——《雪娘》。但是，有一点楼主绝对承认，那就是本片的的确确堪称迄今为止影视史上最恐怖的一版《画皮》题材作品。

　　需要特别加以说明的是，豆瓣电影的本条目是有明显错误的。《 李三娘 》与《 枧硌 》有可能是同一部影片儿，但《雪娘》肯定是另外一部影片儿。只不过，《李三娘》、《 枧硌 》和《雪娘》的一号女主角扮演者理应皆是同一名台湾“外省籍”女演员即曾经的港台老牌儿艳星——恬妮（ 朱隐英 ）。

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