【导演】:Gregory Gan
【主演】: Gregory Gan/Tamara Kostiuk/Sasha Kuropatkina
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【制片地区/国家】:Canada
【年份】:2014
【语言】:英语 / Russian / Ukrainian
【上映时间】: 2014-04-26(多伦多纪录片电影节)
【片长】: 82min
【原名】:The Theory of Happiness
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【评分】:豆瓣：0 ，IMDB：
【IMDb链接】: tt1814900
在这部The Theory of Happiness片中,Seeking a better way of life in rural Ukraine, a collective fights an ideological war. Armed with pitchforks and shovels to work the land, and mathematically calculated political poetry to enlighten the masses, PORTOS (Poetical Association for the Development of a Theory of Universal Happiness) works to build a utopia. Founded in the late 1980s, the commune survives on its herd of cows and pigs. Slogans plastered around the farm are constant reminders of their ideology, and members must adhere to a dress code of close-cropped hair and vests with pockets (equipped with a charged cellphone, flashlight and wristwatch). Gregory Gan joined PORTOS in 2010 to be an ethnographer from within; the group views him as a foreign recruit documenting their practices. Complex social relationships and the role of the filmmaker are broached in this intelligent and revealing look at an alternative subculture negotiating loneliness, friendship, power and authority. Alexander Rogalski
Deep in the Ukrainian countryside, the filmmaker becomes a participant of a radical group trying to discover happiness through mathematical formulas. Can they succeed, or do dreams of utopia turn into a veritable nightmare?
