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1965年，在明家豪华的大厅中，明家夫妻举行七周年结婚纪念晚会，并亮出他们结婚七周年的纪念品，名叫“蓝色火焰”的钻石项链。散会时，两名中年侍者阿九和陈天洋盗取“蓝色火焰”，并放火烧毁明家巨宅，明家夫妻葬身火海，他们三岁的儿子明亮成为孤儿，幸得远亲明车水相助，把明亮带回新加坡抚育长大。明亮长大后，精明强干，在消防局任小队长。一日，富家千金江水灵为救在屋顶的狗虚火警，明亮发现被骗，命令收队。江水灵写投拆信给明亮的上司，明亮与水灵终起冲突。。Herbert Vesely was one of the promises for a new German cinema already in the 50's, but after the 60's his star was already dimmed. He made a small number of films in the 70's and 80's, all non too good. This biography of Egon Schiele, one of the most important Austrian artists, is an example of the pretensions and emptiness of a Vesely-film of later date. The life of Schiele is presented here as a puzzle| well, Vesely thinks that Schiele's life was a puzzle: the core of the story is centered around the famous 1912 pornography trial and using this as base the film shows fragments of past and future. The problem is that it never becomes a unity and that the order of scenes and sequences seems to be at random: a cut-and-paste job that could have had any other result. Indeed, after seeing it twice I am almost convinced of it that a unsatisfactory linear thought-out film was changed into the puzzle in the editing room. Egon Schiele was an enigmatic man, but not a total puzzle, and this film does not bring him any closer. The films also fails in conveying the eroticism and meaning of the Schiele's paintings: the camera watches and glides over the models without any understanding of Schiele's intentions, we only see beautiful naked bodies. If interested in Schiele, you better buy a book with his works in stead.。