万物皆相缘

　　Everything is Relative 万物皆相缘
　　Do we all harbour the same feelings of sorrow, happiness, anger and love? Is the road to happiness always equally winding or straight? Do we love and hate with the same zeal? Does a young woman with breast cancer feel the same pain as a family from Mozambique losing their home in a flood? Does a modern slave from Bangladesh working in Dubai feel the same fear as a US soldier going to Iraq? Are our values, dreams and hopes basically the same, merely mirroring our different lifestyles?

　　“Everything is Relative” is a kaleidoscopic fusion of documentary sequences, archive material and tableaus of human beings. It seeks to portray how our reactions to challenges in life are relative to the conditions that guide our individual lives.
　　我们都有悲伤、快乐、愤怒和爱的感情吗？通向快乐的道路是同等地曲折或笔直吗？我们以相同的热情去爱和恨吗？一个得乳腺癌的年轻女人和一个因洪水失去家园的津巴布韦家庭感觉到的是同样的痛苦吗？一个来自孟加拉、在杜拜工作的现代奴隶和将要去伊拉克的美国士兵感到的是同样的恐惧吗？我们的价值观、梦想和希望基本上都一样，只是反映出不同的生活方式吗？
　　《万物皆相缘》是由纪录片镜头、文档材料和活人造型组成的万花筒似的融合。它试图去描述我们对生活中挑战的反应与指引我们个人生活的情形有何关系。
　　Mikala Krogh / Tju-Bang Film / Denmark / 2008 / 75 min / Danish, English, Hindi, Japanese, Portuguese, Punjabi