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迈克尔．道格拉斯一向以敬业著称，在出演《华尔街》时，他就曾亲自去华尔街股市体验角色。迈克尔的父亲是蜚声影坛的老将柯克．道格拉斯，迈克尔兄弟四人都已子承父业。迈克尔对于白领阶层、政界人物、警察、商人这样的角色尤为擅长。《城市英雄》是一部冷静、客观地描写忙碌的现代人浮躁、郁闷的内心世界的佳作，迈克尔在此有出色的表演。 他扮演的威廉．福斯特是一家军工场的工程师，被解雇后心情很压抑。因离婚，小女儿的生日没被邀请，恰好路上堵车，他弃车走进一家杂货铺，想找点零钱打电话，却遭到刁难，他操起垒球棒砸了铺子。在公园休息时，又和流氓打了一架；在快餐店里因和服务生发生争执，他拔出从流氓那里缴获的手枪一阵乱射，此时他已完全失控。最后，他面对退休警官的枪口，不禁自问：“我是坏人吗？” 影片通过一个普通人一天中一连串的小事，对工业文明中现代人的精神世界和生存状态做了冷静客观的剖析，从中，也许我们多少也能看到自己的影子吧！。Bipedalism, or 'two-footed walking', is the story of a painter who grew up in an orphanage and only years later learns the circumstances of his father's disappearance and death. Childhood memories bring the main character back to the past: he buys a house in the suburbs that used to belong to his family. In the basement, he finds his father's archives and scientific research documents on the hybridization of human race with related biological species. Studying the archive material, he unexpectedly finds evidence of efforts to renew the experiments on the remaining hybrid population. The painter then becomes a researcher, and consequently a victim. The basic idea of his father's research was to change, control and influence the process of human evolution - initially connected with eugenics theories of the period before World War II, and now being placed in a context of modern 'biotechnological' expectations by his former colleagues. The main character tries to recreate and realize his father's heritage, who was forced to cooperate with state terror organizations, using the results of his secret research. In a tragic manner, this information turns into the main character's reality, at first forcing him to reappraise his father's values and later driving him to madness. (http://www.input2002.com/en/film/24418.html)。
