死亡与变形

In sepia tones,the film moves back and forth among three periods in Robert Tucker's life he's an old man,near death,in a nursing home at Christmas time; he's in middle age caring for his cheerful but dying mother; he's a lad at Catholic school,practicing his catechism,going to confession for the first time,receiving the Eucharist,surrounded by the singing of a children's choir. In middle age,he looks through his scrapbook of photographs of muscular men; he recalls lovers and his mother's cremation. A nurse sits beside him on his last night; in his last breath,he reaches forward and back..