The subject of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub’(🔢)s Der Tod des Empedokles (The Death of Empedocles, 1987) is the Greek pre-Socratic philosopher Empedocles (c. 490 BC – 430 BC), who lived in the Greek colony of Agrigentum in Sicily. His theories are mentioned in several of Plato’s dialogues. He maintained that all matter is made up of four irreducible elements water, earth, air and fire. A mystic and a poet, he is considered to be the founder of classical rhetoric. He is also thought to be the last Greek philosopher to write in verse; two fragments of his works survive Katharmoi (Purifications) and Peri Phuseôs (On Nature). An advocate of democracy, he came into conflict with his fellow citizens of Agrigentum and, as result, was banished with his young disciple, Pausanius. When he was asked to return, he preferred to commit suicide by throwing himself into the active volcano at Mount Aetna.　　The German writer Friedrich Hölderlin wrote two versions of Der Tod des Empedokles in 1798 and 1800, and a final third version in 1820, all three ultimately unfinished. They were conceived as five-act tragedies and all three differ in plot. According to Michael Hamburger, Hölderlin’s English-language translator,　　the main reason why Hölderlin finished no version of the play must be that he remained too closely identified with Empedocles, at the very period in his life when his own view of the poet as philosopher, prophet and priest – and as tragic hero – was subject to perpetual crisis and re-examination.　　Huillet-Straub’s The Death of Empedocles is based on Hölderlin’s first version (the longest of the three), whereas Black Sin is based on the third version.。

芭丽来到了(⤵)夏布所在的公司成为了一名策划(huá )人，因为无法忘(wàng )记(✒)已故的亡妻，所以夏布对热情似火的达妮处处回避。

军阀得知戏班(🍑)里有革命党，将整个戏班软禁了起来，素芳为救(jiù )学明，死(🙃)在军阀(fá )丁禄枪下，学明(míng )悲愤之极与丁禄同归于尽。

敫(📰)桂英自送(🍮)别王魁后，思念之心日切，在海神庙焚香祷告，祈愿王魁身(😨)体安康，早回莱阳(yáng )。

自幼父母双亡(wáng )的素芳跟着戏班(bā(🗺)n )走南闯北(⛸)，戏班老板郑敬山的真实身份是革命党人，他可怜素芳的(⏫)身世，对她照料有加。

典型都市女(nǚ )性Diana有着骄人的事(shì )业(😨)成绩，也积极(jí )经营着自己的爱情可是香港经济不景气，她与同公(🛏)司的小职员韦大汉都在了裁员的名单上。

由此开启(qǐ )了(✖)两代人之间、同一代人之间错(cuò )综复杂的情感纠(jiū )葛(🤧)……。