故事发生在20世纪80年代的美国，色播美籍韩裔男子雅各布（史蒂文·元 Steven Yeun 饰）带着妻子莫妮卡（韩艺璃 饰）和两个孩子大卫（Alan S. Kim 饰）、色播安妮（Noel Cho 饰）一起从熟悉的西海岸搬到了偏僻而又陌生的阿肯色州。虽然对于丈夫的这一决定，莫妮卡的心中十分的反对，但她拗不过雅各布的坚决和顽固，只得被迫夫唱妇随。蛮荒之地的生活既不舒适也不有趣，在最初的新鲜感过去之后，大卫和安妮很快就开始怀念起过去的生活了。之后，孩子们的外婆也来到了他们的身边，给这个家庭带来了一丝热闹的气息。雅各布没有发现的是，当他将越来越多的时间和精力投入到开发农场这件事情上时，他和妻子之间的距离就越来越远。
回复 :安娜（明妮·德里弗 Minnie Driver 饰）是一名单身母亲，和儿子杰西（鲍比·科尔曼 Bobby Coleman 饰）过着相依为命的生活。一个女人独自抚养孩子是何等的不易，但安娜从来就没有放弃过希望，而是通过努力的工作来为杰西铺设一个相对来说比较美好的未来。索尔（杰瑞米·雷纳 Jeremy Renner 饰）是一个赌鬼，因为欠下了累累赌债而身陷巨大的麻烦之中。在一场意外里，索尔遇见了安娜和杰西，这意外的相遇令安娜失去了一切，也彻底的毁掉了索尔本就摇摇欲坠的人生。因为过失杀人罪，索尔被关进了监狱，一晃眼多年过去，当安娜再度见到这个男人时，内心的痛苦和黑暗卷土重来。
回复 :乔，十七岁，和酗酒的母亲相依为命，却总得不到母亲的关爱；乔遇见了黑人水手吉姆，共度人生的第一次，然而吉姆跟母亲相继背弃了她。就在乔被迫自谋生路时，纤细的同志杰夫走进了她的世界，伸出温暖的友谊双手……
黄韵玲
回复 :“Sangen Om Den Eldröda Blomman” ( “Song Of The Scarlet Flower” ) was a recent and remarkable silent surprise for this Herr Von; the oeuvre is an excellent Herr Stiller silent film that this German count watched in a newly restored and tinted copy. It combines the well-known aesthetics, technical improvements and artistic merits for which the Nordic director was known and praised since those early silent times till today. The film tells of the merry and carefree love life of young Olof ( Herr Lars Hanson ) a woodsman who during his search for true love, seduces many frauleins ( just like this German aristocrat… well, not exactly because the purpose of this Herr Von’s seduction of rich fräulein heiresses are their great fortunes… ). He will suffer disappointment and deception, all those problems that turn up in any loving relationship. Finally he will find responsibility and maturity, learning during his particular quest that his actions always have consequences in different degrees to the people around him. This Herr Von can describe “Sangen Om…” as a kind of coming of age film, the special introspective growth toward maturity of a free and easy youngster. As this German count said before, the film displays Stiller’s characteristic artistic virtues. ; in the first part of the film, we can see elements of comedy, not exactly like the comedy of intrigues in other Stiller films, but humor of a more cheerful sort, highlighting the self-involvement of our hero. Olof ‘s frivolous flirtations with the different girls eventually turn romantic and then turn into drama. There is conflict in the troubled relationship between Olof and his father and later with the father of his beloved. The beautiful and wild natural landscapes of Norrland and northern Sweden lend the tale a certain power and is characteristic of Herr Stiller’s other silents where Nature emerges as an important character in the story. This is strongly reflected throughout the film but especially during the frantic scene wherein Olof descends into the troubled waters of a river, a beautiful metaphor for the hardships that our hero has to endure until he finds himself. “Sangen Om Den Eldröda Blomman” is an excellent, beautiful film, a solid, technically perfect and intricate production of 1919 that demonstrates once again the importance of Herr Stiller for silent film history.
