受伤的天使

电影讲述了上世纪九十年代的哈萨克小镇，四个少年各自的生命之路。扎哈拉斯正在备受父亲的煎熬，后者因曾是一个诈骗犯而找不到工作，为了帮助父亲，他不得不在玉米加工厂打工。巴拉潘有一把好嗓子，能够将“万福玛丽亚”唱的娓娓动听，然而校园生活教会他的是使用自己的拳头而不是声音。‌扎哈巴则在流浪在村子里的垃圾堆中，寻找可以卖的废金属，他与其他三名同龄离家出走的男孩子睡在废弃的隧道中。阿斯兰正在为医药学努力，然而当他说服自己的女朋友堕胎之后，他的人格发生了彻底的改变。　　A godforsaken Kazakh village in the mid-1990s where four youths are trying to find their way in life. Zharas suffers because his father, an ex-con, cannot find a job. To help make ends meet the boy takes on casual work at a corn merchant’s. Balapan can sing ‘Ave Maria’ as clear as a bell but his schoolmates provoke him into using his fists rather than his voice. Zhaba roams about the village ruins looking for waste metal he can sell. He comes across three bedraggled boys of his own age who have run away from a nearby home and are sleeping in a derelict tunnel. Aslan is about to take up studies in medicine but, after having persuaded his girlfriend to have an abortion, he undergoes a complete change in personality. After scoring a hit with his first film Harmony Lessons, which screened in Competition at the Berlinale in 2013, Emir Baigazin’s new work The Wounded Angel describes the mood of teenagers growing up in a time of great upheaval. The film marks the second part of a visually stunning trilogy about young people and their complex relationships in a world without a moral yardstick. berlinale 2016