哈瑞(杰瑞德·莱托 Jared Leto 饰)和玛丽安(詹妮弗·康纳利 Jennifer Connelly 饰)彼此相爱,梦想着开个服装店,梦想着有个美好的明天。然而他们都离不开毒品,并想着以销毒赚得第一桶金。哈瑞的母亲是个彻底的电视迷,最大的梦想是上电视,为此不顾年迈吞食减肥药。由于药品里的毒品成分,她渐渐上了瘾。哈瑞的朋友狄龙(马龙·韦恩斯 Marlon Wayans 饰)同样是个瘾君子,为了挣大钱加入了黑社会。为了梦想,他们努力着,却一步步深陷毒品难以自拔。 哈瑞的胳膊因注射毒品感染而被割去;玛丽安为了毒品出卖肉体和自尊;哈瑞的母亲最终住进了精神病院受尽折磨;狄龙锒铛入狱。当视线变得模糊,梦在遥远处呼唤,迷失的人该以怎样的姿态安抚自己的灵魂。
This long-lost masterpiece of hardcore gay erotic cinema centers on a handsome young stud who rides his motorcycle through myriad sexual encounters, from a soccer game’s locker room to a phantasmagoric and deeply melancholy orgy. A labyrinth of all-male fantasies whose outstanding beauties always end up fading away while leaving their sensual protagonist dealing with his own loneliness, EQUATION was directed with supreme grace by the mysterious Dietrich de Velsa (aka Francis Savel/Frantz Salieri). A former painter, de Velsa was also the owner and artistic director of La Grande Eugène, one of the first drag cabarets in Paris. Years later, he collaborated with Joseph Losey on MR. KLEIN (1976) and DON GIOVANNI (1979). His one and only film, EQUATION TO AN UNKNOWN stands as one of the most extraordinary erotic films of all time.
“The most melancholic porn film I’ve ever seen. It’s very sad, and aesthetically beautiful. Just a young man wandering through several depictions of love and choreographies of love-making; it’s like a ceremony, a ceremony of fantasies, especially the last sequence where the main character recalls all his previous fantasies, which come one by one around his bed and make love to him. I think it’s one of the most beautiful film sequences of French cinema.” –Yann Gonzalez
A cloaked figure slips into an exclusive psychiatric clinic and murders one of the female patients. Meanwhile, various sexuals liaisons are revealed. The mystery killer continues with his massacre: he beheads a nurse with a scythe, pushes a chauffeur into a spiked “Iron Maiden”, strangles an older female patient, kills a nymphomaniac with an axe, and shoots a lesbian through the neck with a crossbow. Doctor Clay and the police set a trap for the killer using one of the attractive female patients as bait. However, they are not prepared for the onslaugth that follows…