The Last Soul on a Summer Night

　　2012美国剧情悬疑片《The Last Soul on a Summer Night》由Daniel Nearing导演，Andre Truss主演，影片讲述的是：
In 1919 Hart Crane said of Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg Ohio ‘America should read this book on her knees It is an important chapter in the Bible of her consciousness’
Anderson’s modular novel a collection of interconnected short stories remains one of the highest regarded works of American literature ...[显示全部]to this day yet has proved resistant to adaptation as a mainstream Hollywood feature That resistance continues in The Last Soul on a Summer Night previously known as Chicago Heights a starkly black and white experimental nonlinear interpretation of the antique narrative The film takes the originally allwhite centuryold rural stories and tells them with a predominantly African American cast in contemporary south Chicago celebrating the universal power of the source while playing on its anachronisms

The Last Soul on a Summer Night is a series of interrelated vignettes that play out in the imagination of an elderly writer as he stares at the ceiling light in his bedroom He senses that he is near death and his mind has fractured He does not know if the people he imagines are his creations his memories or his dreams though we cannot help but sense that they are abstracted reflections on his coming of age and his relationship with his mother who died when he was young He also reimagines the lives of others he may once have known like the community pastor a favorite teacher and the therapist who treated his mother In his mind they are all “grotesque” They have an archetypal meaning to him and all seem to manifest aspects of a struggle for identity that may have kept him alone throughout his life