2002年,韓培印的兒子勝利考上了西安一所大學,從農村來到城市。為了讓勝利上學,老韓變賣了家裏所有值錢的東西,到西安打工,為兒子解決大學的生活費和來年的學費。做了一輩子農民的老韓堅信知識會改變命運,他樂觀地盼望著,兒子上了大學,將來一定會有出息。
勝利面臨畢業,性格內向的他面對強大的就業壓力,感覺這個城市越來越遠,上過大學的他很可能賺得比父親還要少。
有一個本子被老韓隨身裝了好幾年,裏面記滿了三年來十元、二十元的借款記錄,以及他對兒子勝利的期望:“我兒勝利要在2013前後,也就是父親的60歲前後,咱們全家到北京好好的玩幾天,那時候咱們大家都很有錢……”
In China, HAN has sold off all the family’s home valuables and now works in Xi an city to make money for his son to go to college. HAN firmly believes that knowledge has power to change their destiny. “Around 2013 or so, roughly my sixties, Sheng-li will take our family to Beijing for a sightseeing visit. We will have plenty of money by then…”
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When a group of friends go hunting and accidentally kill someone carrying a bag full of money, their friendships are put to the test when the bag's true owner comes looking.
Based on the 13th Century Borneo sacrificial rituals, “Curse of the Totem” tells the story of Dr. Sani who goes in search of his wife, who disappeared on a genealogy expedition to study the ancient mythical legend of Jerunei ‘Burial Poles of the indigenous Melanau tribe in Borneo.
Burial poles mark burial still exist today as gravestones, marking the loss of other human lives that were sacrificed on behalf of prosperous nobility. Human sacrifice was outlawed in Sarawak Province in the 18th Century.
Combing through the Borneo jungle for answers, each member of Dr. Sani’s team experiences inexplicable hallucinations, malicious disturbances and eventually are haunted by unexplained spirits of the dead. Things take a turn for the worse when one of them is completely possessed by evil forces.