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　　Can I Get a Witness? tells the story of a mother and daughter in a near-future world where huge sacrifices are made to maintain life on Earth.　　With its resources swallowed by e-waste and overpopulation, the world is experiencing an anthropogenic collapse. To manage, technological advances are shunned. Nobody has electricity and only people with exceptions are permitted cars. Most importantly, there is also a collective agreement that nobody is allowed to live beyond the age of 50.　　Oh’s Ellie lives with her teenage daughter Kiah (Keira Jang), who is starting her first day as a Documenter, an important role in this new world order. She uses her artistic gifts — beautifully conjured in animations — to draw the dying ceremonies, since printing and photography have been banned.　　Kiah is paired with Daniel (Joel Oulette), the young man who performs the contractual elements of each person’s end-of-life ceremony. He matter-of-factly provides the packages a person can choose, sets them up when the time comes, and performs the burials. But his new coworker is having a hard time handling the emotional impacts of the job.

　　此片是盧貝松再影壇還沒沒無聞時(shí)，憑著一腔熱血，旺盛活力與爆發(fā)力， 突破一切傳統(tǒng)，掙脫一切商業(yè)機(jī)制下的樊籠，冒著無色彩，無對(duì)話，無明星等大諱所完成的電影。當(dāng)影片完成時(shí)，因宣傳無門，于是盧貝松帶著這部影片參加瑞士阿沃基影展，一舉拿下評(píng)審特別大獎(jiǎng)及影評(píng)人獎(jiǎng)，因而打開他的國(guó)際知名度。解剖核子戰(zhàn)后的文明廢墟，因?yàn)闊o色彩，所以這是一部黑白色調(diào)的電影。

 這部在歌舞片發(fā)展早期拍攝的影片，堪稱是當(dāng)時(shí)最為奢華的好萊塢巨制。影片由后來被譽(yù)為“爵士之王”的保羅·懷特曼領(lǐng)銜主演，還請(qǐng)到了一眾歌舞名手。片中的內(nèi)容取自百老匯的經(jīng)典演出，通過名家和管弦樂隊(duì)的出色演繹，為觀眾感受爵士年代風(fēng)情提供了一次珍貴的機(jī)會(huì)。影片在當(dāng)年獲得了奧斯卡最佳藝術(shù)指導(dǎo)獎(jiǎng)。2013年，它還被美國(guó)國(guó)會(huì)圖書館列入國(guó)家電影目錄。

　　故事設(shè)定在“猿流感”病毒蔓延全球的背景下，人類幾近毀滅，而進(jìn)化為高級(jí)智慧生物的猿類一躍成為食物鏈頂端的王者。時(shí)移世異，暴虐的猿類首領(lǐng)賽撒（凱文·杜蘭 Kevin Durand 飾）在一片廢墟中建立起猿族歷史上的第一個(gè)帝國(guó)——“猩球”崛起，這是世界新秩序誕生的黎明時(shí)分。神秘的人類女孩諾娃（弗蕾婭·艾倫 Freya Allan 飾）的出現(xiàn)，引起了賽撒的警覺。她似乎掌握著一個(gè)巨大的秘密，不僅關(guān)乎人類的存亡，甚至可能再度顛覆整個(gè)“猩球”。被迫逃亡的諾娃在躲避賽撒軍隊(duì)的過程中，與青年猿類諾亞（歐文·泰格 Owen Teague 飾）的命運(yùn)交匯，揭開了一段冒險(xiǎn)的旅程。