生存法则

震憾，太震憾了！原本以为这小子会在法庭上摆他外婆一道，没想到已经让我感到失望的最后来了一个大反扑。小子太有种了，太TM冷静了，太有心机了，只能说这小子综合继承了这个家族的优良犯罪基因，凶残超过舅舅，理性超过外婆，青出于蓝而胜于蓝。这个后浪要么不出手，一出手就把这个家族的前浪Pope狠狠拍在了沙滩上！这小子太有潜质了，这才17岁，黑道新一代教皇就此诞生了。外婆听到枪声后，震惊地看着不动声色就完成了复仇计划的外孙，百般无奈与惴惴不安中还是接受了新一代教皇的拥抱。老太太的算盘拎得很清，大儿子已经死了，只剩下个唯唯诺诺的小儿子，不能再把外孙也干掉，家族的血脉还要延续呢。英雄一出手就知有没有，此外孙日后必成大器。

影片成功的地方在于营造了不同以往的犯罪影片氛围，虽然是家族犯罪集团，没有过多交代犯罪本身，而是侧重于与警察的复仇，与律师的纠葛，与衍生出的各类人物间或多或少的利益关系，以及自身之间的矛盾情感。

过度的欲聋音响起到了不错的辅助作用。

主角人物性格的设置表达了比周边环境更不可把握的是自我内心的矛盾。

Welcome to the Melbourne underworld. Following the death of his mother, seventeen year-old Joshua 'J' Cody (newcomer James Frencheville) moves in with his hitherto-estranged family, under the watchful eye of his doting grandmother, Janine 'Smurf' Cody (Jacki Weaver), and her three criminal sons - the Cody boys.

Eldest son and armed robber, Andrew 'Pop' Cody (Ben Mendelsohn) is in hiding from a gang of renegade detectives. Middle brother Craig (Sullivan Stapleton) is a successful but volatile drug dealer, whilst the youngest Cody, Darren (Luke Ford), naïvely) follows his elder brothers' lead. Just as Pope's business partner and best friend, Barry Brown (Joel Edgerton), decides that he wants our of the game, recognising that their days of old-school banditry are all but over, tensions between the family and the police explode.

J finds himself at the centre of a cold-blooded revenge plot that turns his family upside down and which throws him directly into the path of senior homicide detective, Nathan Leckie (Guy Pearce).

Animal Kingdom is a powerful crime drama exploring the tense battle between a criminal family and the police, and the ordinary lives caught in the middle.

Animal Kingdom is the debut of writer/director David Michôd whose previous short films have screened extensively internationally and in Australia, including the multi-award winning Crossbow. And AFI award-winning writer, Michôd also wrote the screenplay for this project.

Animal Kingdom is presented by Screen Australia and Porchlight Films, in association with Film Victoria, Screen NSW, Fulcrum Media Finance, Showtime Australia and Madman Entertainment in association with Jetty Distribution.

from http://www.animalkingdommovie.com/

  一个没有家庭温暖的小孩乔波，自母亲过量吸毒而亡后，被外婆接回一个经营毒品的家庭。整个贩毒家庭已经充满困兽般的躁动，乔波因一场对警察的复仇而卷入泄密的嫌疑。最终女朋友被害二准备做犯罪的证人。电影高潮在这里展开：犯罪的证人，家族的香火，复仇的怒火，求生的欲望，与最终罪恶的本能交织在一起，塑造一个未成年人崎岖的强大过程。生存危机的生活是人性的地狱烈火

來自澳洲的電影"Animal Kingdom"獲多個提名, 包括奧斯卡(最佳女配角), 在當地更獲不少獎項. 更在美國的Sundance Film Festival拿了Grand Jury Prize.

真的一個野獸家族, 上至祖母下至孫兒都不是泛泛之輩.

第一幕是兒子Joshua(James Frecheville/男主角)目睹母親吸毒暴斃, 未成年又無親無顧, 唯有打電話去找許久沒聯絡的祖母(Jacki Weaver). 寄居在祖母家, 一屋都是毒犯或劫匪的舅父.

節奏緊湊, 劇情流暢, 演員都有水準. 最欣賞是年輕男主角James Frecheville, 戲份最多亦擔綱得起. 當然獲最佳女配角提名的祖母Jacki Weaver更是全片的另一支柱.

喜歡那幕一屋都是警察, 兒子們都被拘捕了, 她卻悠然自得地坐在餐桌前, 手慢慢地提起杯中的茶包, 臉上的笑容到現在我還記憶猶新.

最後一幕令人意想不到, 給電影一個又一個的高潮來個完滿的終結.

飾演探長的Guy Pearce是另一個出眾的演員.

看特刊介紹, 電影據真人真事寫成, 導演說"其實是發生在80年代末墨爾本一宗特定事件." 不過他"不想把影片背景放在80年代... 把電影設置在沒特定的過去... "