导演其实在开篇的旁白里就已经说出了故事的结局，欧美电影是一出悲剧。但却是以喜剧的形式讲述的。三名孤儿，欧美安德列、尤里克与玛尔塔。其实都是成年人，但他们的行为却如孩子般天真。三人住在一所战争中被炸毁的教堂里。有趣的是，这所教堂竟然还有个房东，他也是个孤儿。胖胖的，可爱的老头， 贪吃、爱玩，喜欢弹钢琴。安德列与尤里克本是好友，但自从犹太女孩玛尔塔到来之后，他们的关系变得异常微妙。尤里克无缘由地被抓进监狱。一年出狱后，发现已经是物是人非。他们的将来会何去何从呢？片中的鸟儿，是指人死后灵魂的象征物；愚人，也可以说是“傻瓜”，是指那些在战争中失去理智的疯子或者被别人称为是有理性的那些人。剧中经常出现不合常理、超现实的人物、场景。
王仁宏
回复 :Activists around the world fight injustice and drive social change in this documentary that follows their participation in the music video Solidarité.
萧闳仁
回复 :继《一个复杂故事》后执导的第二部爱情电影。善良憨直的小学教师阿乐，是精神分裂症康复者，虽然渴望爱情但从来不敢恋爱。偶然机遇下，他在街头偶遇了清丽脱俗的欣欣，一见钟情却挣扎应否透露病情。踌躇之下，不幸再次病发，被幻觉缠绕。他更发现她的真正身份，竟然是个功于心计的心理辅导员？二人发展出一段悬疑曲折的禁恋，疑幻似真。
钮榕
回复 :Volker Schlöndorff transposes Bertolt Brecht’s late-expressionist work to latter-day 1969. Poet and anarchist Baal lives in an attic and reads his poems to cab drivers. At first feted and later rejected by bourgeois society, Baal roams through forests and along motorways, greedy for schnapps, cigarettes, women and men: ‘You have to let out the beast, let him out into the sunlight.’ After impregnating a young actress he soon comes to regard her as a millstone round his neck. He stabs a friend to death and dies alone. ‘You are useless, mangy and wild, you beast, you crawl through the lowest boughs of the tree.’The film takes youthful impetuousness and hatred of oppression as its subject and also ponders the cult of genius and sexual morals. Rainer Werner Fassbinder simultaneously plays both Baal and himself and is surrounded by many actors who were later to perform in his own films. After the film was broadcast on West German television, Brecht’s widow Helene Weigel prohibited any further screenings, arguing that the social circumstances engendering Baal’s rebelliousness had not been adequately explained.
