Feature adaptation of the 1957 novel by Ayn Rand.
故事讲述在不久的将来,太阳已经变得有毒,人们无法在白天离开家,正常的生活大多在虚拟环境中进行。 在这种反乌托邦背景下,一个垂死的人寻求确保家人的未来幸福,同时应对在这个新现实中成为人的意义。
The main character is Dr. Max Holst, a successful neurosurgeon. One day an intense little man named Steinmetz shows up, who has the real ability to create objects out of thin air, using only his mind. As no one believes him at first, he is held at a ward for mental patients, but manifests the key to his door and escapes. As he has a special interest in Dr. Holst, Steinmetz subsequently invites Holst to his large mansion, which is full of expensive paintings and sculptures, and proves to him that he can in fact materialise objects. Steinmetz’s abilities are evolving by leaps and bounds, and is progressing from being able to create objects only to being able to create living things. His ultimate ambition is to be able to create a human being. He tells Dr. Holst that if he will only perform a certain brain operation on him, Steinmetz will become able to attain his goal. He’s got all the necessary equipment set up in his basement. Dr. Holst, however, is too spooked by the whole thing to agree to this mad scheme, and refuses. Steinmetz then sets about manipulating Holst’s life, to pressure him into performing the operation. By then Steinmetz has become able to create a temporary human being, and in the hope that he can perhaps make his own creation perform the operation, he manifests a doppelganger of Dr. Holst. This double proceeds to take over Dr. Holst’s life, creating chaos for him professionally and personally. And then Dr. Holst starts fighting back. The ending has the dual virtue of being both unexpected and satisfying.
魔术师社长杜新月一直想要得到业内早已经失传的传奇魔术秘笈《三式详解》,然而拥有该秘籍的童铁却拒绝将它交给心术不正的杜新月。愤怒之中,杜新月买通了童铁的助手,让她在童铁表演逃脱魔术的道具上做了手脚,导致童铁在表演过程中惨死。不仅如此,他们还继续迫害知道秘籍下落的童铁的儿子童行。 根据父亲留下的项链,童行来到了龙泉寺,在那里的方丈将《三式详解》交给了他,可就在这个节骨眼上,一直尾随童行的方教授现身抢走了秘籍,然而螳螂捕蝉黄雀在后,杜新月紧随其后打倒了方教授,试图抢夺秘籍,最终会鹿死谁手呢?