《Niwatori wa futatabi naku (1954)》Storyline
Background Introduction Provided by Off-Screen Narrator:A narrator (Olan Soule) introduced the unappealing flavor of the empty, mostly deserted small lumber saw-mill town of Loyalton, Wisconsin, where he main factory spewed incinerator heat, smoke and sawdust ceaselessly:(voice-over) The sawmill is the pulse and heartbeat of the town of Loyalton.Hitchcock""s work was a masterful study of romantic longing, identity, voyeurism, reachery and death.It also told about female victimization and degrading manipulation, the feminine "ideal," and the protagonist""s fatal sexual obsession for a cool-blonde heroine." To the accompaniment of the theme song from "Mission: Impossible," Shrek""s friends freed the trio from the dungeon, by lowering Pinocchio into the hole and having him tell a lie about his thong underwear - extending his nose so that the Gingerbread Man could unlock their handcuffs.Due to its violence, the film was originally threatened with an X-rating by the newly-created MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America), but an R-rating was its final decision.Lewis: Oh yeah.You gotta nice job, you gotta a nice house, a nice wife, a nice kid.Ed: You make that sound rather s--tty, Lewis.Lewis: Why do you go on these trips with me, Ed?Ed: I like my life, Lewis.Lewis: Yeah, but why do you go on these trips with me?Ed: You know, sometimes I wonder about that.The comrades camp at night by the river""s edge, setting up tents, sitting around a campfire, listening to Drew""s guitar playing, drinking beer, and roasting a fish that Lewis has speared.