In the not too distant future, a very smoggy and overpopulated Earth government makes it illegal to have children for a generation. One couple, unsatisfied with their substitute robot baby, breaks the rules and gets in a lot of trouble. (Z.P.G. stands for Zero Population Growth).
犹太天才数学家马克西·米利安·科恩(希恩·格莱特 Sean Gullette饰)痴迷沉醉于数字的世界,他认为一切自然界的事物都可以用数字解释。他潜心研究,试图透过数字推演出种种生命迹象背后的奥秘和规律。可越是逼近答案,他越是无法忍受致命的头痛。他发现了过去十年来股票市场的混乱波动,其实是由背后的一套数学模式在操纵。与此同时,他的研究引来了华尔街股票市场的炒家们和犹太神秘教派的注意。在介乎真实与虚拟的世界中,马克西正在走向疯狂。
1996年2月,阿伦诺夫斯基开始筹备这部成本只有六万美元的长片处女作。两年后,《死亡密码》以其新颖的创意和崭新的拍摄手法,一鸣惊人。先是斩获圣丹斯电影节的导演奖,翌年又摘得独立精神奖的最佳编剧处女作奖。2000年,他再次自编自导了《梦之安魂曲》,也赢得了不错的反响。2005年,他还入围“最需要关注的好莱坞100人”。
Post-nuclear-war dramas centering on a small group of survivors now constitute an entire genre in science-fiction films. All of them, in some way or another, can be traced back to this seminal film from 1951 in which five people deal with the possibility they are the only human beings left alive on the planet.
While most of the later movies exploited this possibility for B-movie thrills, "Five" adopts a quiet, contemplative tone which some may find dull but which thoughtful viewers are more likely to find, for want of a better word, haunting. There is something about this movie which gets under the skin and which lurks in the corners of the mind long after it's over.