刘苹果(范冰冰饰)在北京一家洗脚城里做按摩妹,丈夫安坤(佟大为饰)是负责清洗高楼落地窗的工人,二人生活贫困,却相亲相爱。
洗脚城老板林东(梁家辉饰)是个好色的港商,时常找不同小姐满足生理需要。老婆王梅(金燕玲饰)不能生育,经营一家美容院,两人感情冷淡。
一日刘苹果的好友小妹因为得罪客人而被开除,二人喝得酩酊大醉。神志混乱的苹果误打误撞走到一间足浴客房,正好是林东的休息室,二人发生关系,却被正在刷窗的安坤看到。
安坤欲借此敲诈林东,并前去找王梅谈判,愤怒的王梅要林东也尝尝“戴绿帽”的滋味,于是与安坤发生关系。
而在这时,一个更大的变故产生。苹果怀孕了,而到底谁才是这个孩子的父亲成了林东与安坤赌博的筹码,四人签订协议,如果是林东的骨肉,他将给二人十二万元的补偿费,而如果是安坤的,则双方互不相欠......。Herbert Vesely was one of the promises for a new German cinema already in the 50's, but after the 60's his star was already dimmed. He made a small number of films in the 70's and 80's, all non too good. This biography of Egon Schiele, one of the most important Austrian artists, is an example of the pretensions and emptiness of a Vesely-film of later date.
The life of Schiele is presented here as a puzzle| well, Vesely thinks that Schiele's life was a puzzle: the core of the story is centered around the famous 1912 pornography trial and using this as base the film shows fragments of past and future. The problem is that it never becomes a unity and that the order of scenes and sequences seems to be at random: a cut-and-paste job that could have had any other result. Indeed, after seeing it twice I am almost convinced of it that a unsatisfactory linear thought-out film was changed into the puzzle in the editing room. Egon Schiele was an enigmatic man, but not a total puzzle, and this film does not bring him any closer.
The films also fails in conveying the eroticism and meaning of the Schiele's paintings: the camera watches and glides over the models without any understanding of Schiele's intentions, we only see beautiful naked bodies. If interested in Schiele, you better buy a book with his works in stead.。