VMX2024年終評點

　　少女幸子（宮崎葵飾）和老師的師生戀緋聞被傳得風風雨雨，相依為命的母親稔子（Ryo飾）則自殺未遂。打擊不斷的生活令幸子無法承受，升入中學后，她不去上學，每天閑逛打發時間。她和依靠小偷小摸賺錢的少年隆夫、精神脆弱的中年人久蔵成為了朋友。隆夫離開后，幸子和好友夏子（蒼井優飾）返回了學校。　　不久后，她又差點被母親的新歡德川強暴。謠言又起，幸子失望地離開學校。昔日的老師戀人現在發電所工作，幸子準備去他那里。然而在約定的小茶店里等了很久，他還是沒有出現。灰心的幸子跟一個前來搭訕的男子離開茶店……

　　Anna is stuck: she's approaching 30, living like a hermit in her mum's garden shed and wondering why the suffragettes ever bothered. She spends her days making videos using her thumbs as actors - thumbs that bicker about things like whether Yogi Bear is a moral or existential nihilist. But Anna doesn't show these videos to anyone and no one knows what they are for. A week before her birthday her Mum serves her an ultimatum - she needs to move out of the shed, get a haircut that doesn't put her gender in question and stop dressing like a homeless teenager. Naturally, Anna tells her Mum to "back the f-off". However, when her school friend comes to visit, Anna's self-imposed isolation becomes impossible to maintain. Soon she is entangled with a troubled eight year old boy obsessed with Westerns, and the local estate agent whose awkward interpersonal skills continually undermine his attempts to seduce her.

　　少女艾諾拉·佩妮（Virginia Newcomb 飾）偶然在深夜進入一家破敗的歌劇院，乖張吊詭的演員為她表演了六個異乎尋常的故事：《蟾蜍之母》一對美國夫婦來到法國某偏遠山鎮旅行，在這里結識了一個詭異的老婆婆；《我愛你》德國柏林，走到盡頭的婚姻，歇斯底里的偏執男人讓他的妻子再也無法忍受著無處不在的狂愛；《夢遺》飽受邪淫夢境困擾的男人，在夢與現實的夾縫中迷失；《事故》真實的死亡對于一個小女孩來說也許過于費解與殘酷，然而這就是它真實的原因；《記憶收集》她殺了求死的女人們，她看見并擁有了她們的記憶；《甜食》一度沉浸在甜食和熱戀中的情侶，不知不覺走到了情感盡頭。

　　帶著過往傷痛，塞吉歐只身一人前往「微笑之村」擔任代理教師。這座對負能量零容忍的小鎮，明明曾遭逢巨變，居民們卻笑口常開。原來，讓這座微笑之村風光明媚的秘方，是一位能吸取人間苦痛的男孩，他的身體如祭壇，透過擁抱承擔全村的悲傷。他為人搭建快樂天堂，自己卻陷入無盡黑暗。塞吉歐與男孩的相遇，攪亂了鎮上的平衡；那座煉獄之門，也終將反向人間敞開。