本片根据真实故事改编。1957年,苏联卫星发射成功,美国民众萌发了危机意识。一个矿井小镇的普通高中生霍默(杰克·吉伦哈尔 Jake Gyllenhaal 饰)此刻却为自己的未来忧虑,他在球队选拔中落选,而体魄强健的哥哥一直更受父亲约翰(克里斯·库珀 Chris Cooper 饰)认可,不甘于平庸的霍默萌生了制作火箭的想法,在老师和朋友们的支持下,霍默全身心投入了研究,老师更带来了他可以通过火箭制作进入大学学习的机会。而另一方面,身为矿井负责人的约翰希望儿子继承矿井,对他的研究加以阻扰,同时警方也为山林失火事件终止了霍默的活动,这个年轻人还能获得自己想要的成功么?
SynopsisIn the Allegory of the Cave, Plato ponders: what would happen if one of the prisoners managed to free themselves from their chains and escape from the cave? What if that prisoner were Jay, a little 7-year-old boy?Director’s statementWhat lies behind the daily movement of a city? Last winter, we met in Paris and began discussing the Allegory of the Cave, as told in Plato’s Republic. The myth imagines humanity living in chains, facing the back of a cave, and watching shadows move on the walls, thinking it is reality. We both work with images, which certainly can be illusions, but can also become instruments of struggle and liberation of thought. So, from this discussion, we decided to create a short film. We had a few fixed ideas—the cave, the dance, the city bustling around us—and one question: what would happen if we all managed to turn together towards the exit of the cave? Perhaps it is not enough to assert that images are illusions as long as the chains that bind us are real.
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