看完《下流故事》，胸口像压了块石头。如果你对“叙事即形式”、对语言本身能制造紧张感感兴趣，或者想看看厄斯塔什如何用长镜头把一段日常对话变成道德拷问，这部片子值得你安静地看进去。迈克尔·朗斯代尔的表演完全服务于文本：他无需夸张肢体，仅通过嘴角抽搐和眼神游移就让谎言与坦白难以分辨。适合那些厌烦类型化情爱叙事、愿意在松散结构里挖细节的观众，尤其是对1970年代欧洲知识分子自反性能耐住性子的人。他叙述时既坦诚又不安，仿佛在自我审判。电影并没有直接呈现那些场景，而是用两种方式交替展开：一种是朋友们围坐听讲的真实对话，另一种是演员重演他描述的画面。

A group of friends listen as one man tells them a story about a time when, in a small cafe, he discovered a peephole into the ladies' bathroom and became addicted to looking through it at female genitals. They ask him questions and come to conclusions about sex. This is a filmed, scripted version. Then, the actual person who this happened to relates the same story; this time, h...