VIP2014-01-01点火焚星电影描写托马斯与美国诗人约翰·马尔科姆·布林宁(John Malcolm Brinnin,1916-1998)的交往。后者亦曾与杜鲁门·卡波特、田纳西·威廉斯等人交友,1955年出版了《狄兰·托马斯在美国》(Dylan Thomas in America)一书,记录他请托马斯访美、陪他巡游的过程,沿途深为大诗人不停歇的醉酒和各种反常行为所苦。这是关于英国诗人迪伦·托马斯(Dylan Thomas)的半自传电影,今年也正是这位诗人的一百周年诞辰。迪伦·托马斯的诗作受到现代主义的诗歌和浪漫主义传统的双重影响,技巧娴熟,关注读者的情感诉求,具有强烈的抒情性。美国摇滚巨星鲍勃·迪伦(Bob Dylan)本名叫做“Robert Allen Zimmerman”,因为他由衷崇拜迪伦·托马斯,所以把自己的姓改为了迪伦。
VIP2014-01-01缪斯Edward Dunstan is an artist obsessed by his muse. Every photograph and every movie conveyed the same meaning: What he wanted to see. His muse waited in vain for him to see her as she was, but he could not. And so, like the mermaid in his latest movie who grew legs and left him, so does his muse. For months his days and nights are filled with watching her on the screen. His anger turns to self-pity... turns to acceptance... Only now does he understand what he put her through. When his latest letter to her is returned, he binds himself in chains and climbs into the very tank of water his muse spent many unhappy hours.