For 27-year-old Ben (Josh Lawson), life couldn’t be better. A well paid job, friends, parties, girls and nothing to tie him down. But when he is invited back to his old school to join several other ex-students including Alex (Rachael Taylor) and Jim (Ed Kavalee) in talking about their personal achievements, something goes wrong. Ben is the only speaker not to be asked a question by the school kids. This triggers a year of soulsearching and looking for answers in all the wrong places.
From his best friend Andy (Christian Clark) whose solution is that they both take another holiday, to his mentor Sam (Lachy Hulme) who loans him a sports car in the belief that there’s nothing like excessive speed to resolve emotional turmoil. Not even Ben’s father (Rob Carlton) or friends Nick (Daniel Henshall) and Em (Felicity Ward) can offer much in the way of meaningful guidance.
Of course, it’s not easy seeking enlightenment in nightclubs, or on the ski fields of New Zealand, and when you start dating a Russian tennis star things can get really complicated. As the poster boy for a generation desperate to tick every box, Ben begins to suspect that the meaning of life may well reside in the things he's already doing - and a girl he used to know.
原作的温文尔雅不见了，变得分裂惊悚，编剧画蛇添足又自作聪明。一定要看茨威格原著。
内核其实是个家庭/婚姻故事，经营不善的屠夫，梦想成为连环杀手的妻子，掉进钱眼里的老友和喋喋不休的素食“伊朗猪”
挺有意思的，人的精神世界很奇妙，有时候一直被锁在一个地方反而会提升专注力，不过影片中男主确实异于常人，将象棋变成了拯救自己的最后一根稻草，象棋大师就好似心魔，战胜心魔抗住压力就不会泄露密码，这是一场与敌人的博弈，更是一场与自己内心的博弈
刀第一个时太卧槽了，伊朗肉很好吃啊，欲罢不能啊！
茨威格最大的理想是重拾世界的尊严。而至此为何美国如此另欧陆人神往也找到了理由，他们试图相信那里是昨日的世界的复刻，是新建的辉煌之城特洛伊。
确实各种政治不正确，讽刺了一众极端的素食主义，动物环保，黑人，女权等。
这电影好在哪呢，就是男主的变态过程不是一步到位的，这就比较切合真实的人性了。
导演最后还是怂了，让主角自我反思并且坐牢而没有一黑到底，我觉得黑色幽默的极致是夫妻两最终忍不住吃了小孩，但是在假扮素食者的过程中被其他食人魔杀了，结尾食人魔还吐槽“这次的肉怎么这么难吃？”，导演让电影只停留在娱乐性讽刺的层面上显得不够震撼。虽然电影以食人为主题但血腥值并不高，并不是汉尼拔那种内脏乱飞的类型，口味不重也能看。两主角是法国喜剧经典贱兮兮配傻乎乎的组合，还是挺逗的。
为了讥讽素食主义，无厘头的故事令人很难入戏。
好幸福～此生我都无法奢望的美妙爱情！
故事比电影精彩/记住了一句台词/“准时会偷走最好的时光”
冷门佳片，可以值4星。剧情架构和男主演技炸裂，影帝水准。
这种导演真的不可多得了，要珍惜，4星奉上。2022-4-22 19:31:02
6.5。包的是中年危机拯救事业爱情的馅儿。
恐怖片里一股清流…顺畅的剧情，不错的喜剧效果，多角度的讽刺足以组成良好的观影体验。其他都算点缀
2、如果吃人，那人和畜生有什么区别？
难道精神能够抵抗一切吗？可以，如果精神崩溃算在内的话。
充满了讽刺和血腥味道，谈不上好坏，就是剧本还是查了一些。
人生的含义是什么，是奋斗。奋斗的动力是什么，是成功。
结局太惊悚和唏嘘了，竟然一切都是主人公的想象。。。
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