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 Hö(💸)lderlin’s first version (the longest of the three), whereas Black Sin is based on the third version.。

面对亲人为(wéi )国捐躯，两个山寨头人李大和杨八(bā(📿) )代决心筑路，并抛弃以往的恩怨(🈶)，带领寨民们联手修筑(♟)一条支撑正义(yì )之战的运输大(🤡)动脉。

我们恰逢生活(huó )在这个如花一般美好的社会，更(💚)要(yào )感恩这个国家给予我们的一切希望，发愤图强。

On the run from his former employer, a reluctant hitman seeks refuge in an isolated village where he is faced with events that test the true nature of his conscience.。

一(🧛)座被外国军队占领的城市，由于粮食短缺，人民生活艰(👧)难(nán )困苦，一位年轻妇女只好带着双胞(bāo )胎儿子们投(⛓)靠住在乡间的母亲。

故(gù )事发生(⛱)在挪威一座名为巴斯特瑞的(de )小岛上，那里关押着许多(🔈)年轻的犯(fàn )人，他们的年龄最小的只有11岁，最(zuì )大的也(🍫)不过18岁。