3个覆面少年打破社会常态，破坏“世界”的故事，今秋日本艺术院线公映。
清光绪年间，山河动荡，外忧内患，中国处在生死存亡的一线间。光绪皇帝（舒适 饰）当朝，却因慈禧太后（唐若青 饰）垂帘听政，身不由己，宛如傀儡一般。户部尚书翁同龢习光绪学经解义，并灌输启蒙思想，使光绪萌发变法之心；而光绪宠妃珍妃（周璇 饰）亦每日存下银两，以作军资。甲午惨败，翁同龢开缺回乡，临别前向光绪举荐康有为。戊戌年（1898年），光绪与维新派展开变法，却受到慈禧为首的顽固派的抵制，双方矛盾愈演愈烈。太后一方定下计谋，企图借天津阅兵之际废掉光绪；而维新一派亦相时而动，派出袁世凯（罗维 饰）刺杀荣禄，围执太后……
Michael Shannon directs an adaptation of Brett Neveu’s 2002 play about a mother coping with the fallout after her son murders three of his high school classmates. Janice (Judy Greer) is struggling; she moves through life as if in a haze, unable to let go of her anger and frustration. While her husband (Alexander Skarsgård) has found refuge at a new church, Janice finds it hard to seek solace in her faith despite her pastor’s pleas to heal her wounds by meeting with the mothers of her son’s victims. As Janice ponders what that meeting could achieve for her and her community, Eric LaRue asks audiences to witness the frayed emotional ripples that violent acts can engender. Anchored by Greer’s deeply arresting performance, Shannon’s directorial debut grapples head-on with frustratingly timely conversations about who deserves our compassion and grace. Standout supporting turns by Tracy Letts and Alison Pill, who capture a subtly unnerving vision of spiritual fanaticism, stress the film's interest in complicating facile views of atonement and forgiveness in light of such tragedies.
