水性杨花

　　记者玲（李心洁饰）的男友Peter获得一宗刑事案件的新闻线报，前去取证途中突然遭遇交通事故意外身亡。玲觉得事有蹊跷，调查后发现一宗模特命案。女模特Helen裸死于家中浴缸，富豪之子张承志没有不在场证据，但事件竟被警方低调处理，张承志的相关证据也被消除。玲为不愿男友枉死，誓要调查出事件真相，但报社总编辑曾达时（梁家辉饰）却不愿为玲伸出援手。无奈之下，玲只好求助常常被追债的飞(黄秋生饰)与马仔(葛民灰)帮助她调查真相。飞原来是警察出身，在调查中，他发现Peter的死因确有蹊跷。随着调查的进行，黑暗中的黑手不断想将玲置于死地，究竟事件的真相能否登上报纸的A1头条？真相与言论自由的赛跑，在香港的午夜开始。

　　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.

 在通往村东头的一条田间小路上，刚从县城回来的侯家二小子侯保见把自行车骑得飞快。快到村口时，保见顺便看了一眼在瓜地看瓜的木仓大叔后，急不可待地来到春娥家，拥吻着春娥就往里屋走。自从正月十五看花灯时和春娥好上后，在县城帮老大看饭馆的保见就像丢了魂似地隔三差五就往家里跑。春娥是个命苦的女人。结婚不到二年，丈夫就死了，儿子马驹都快五岁还不会说话。丈夫死后，漂亮贤惠的春娥里里外外一把手，既操持着家务，还把老公公木仓爹侍侯得就如同自己的亲爹一样。木仓大叔也是一个通情达里的人。儿子死后，木仓大叔就搬出门，带着不会说话的小孙子马驹，一心扑在村头的瓜地里。其实，木仓大叔这样做也有他另一层心思，那就是木仓大叔理解作为一个女人的苦。毕竟纸里包不住火。保见来的次数多了，从家里跑到瓜地的看家狗“利来”的异常引起了木仓大叔的警觉。终于，春娥和保见的事被木仓大叔发现。这种事要放在别人肯定不会轻饶，但木仓大叔理解儿媳妇春娥的苦。既然生米煮成了熟饭，春娥和保见的事在村主任的撮合和主持下，一个简单的婚礼算是成全了一对有情人的姻缘。春娥嫁到老侯家后，因为保见害怕他爹的缘故，再加上春娥又是一个寡妇，所以在侯家过着忍气吞声的日子。但这一切并不防碍春娥和保见的恩爱。平常的日子里，春娥担负起一个家庭主妇的重担，在保见爹挑剔的眼光下，百般小心地尽着一个为人儿媳妇的责任。除此之外，春娥还得隔三差五地回木仓大爹家，给木仓爹浆洗衣服、收拾家务、做一顿热饭。春娥的苦，春娥自己不说木仓爹也看在眼里。春娥毕竟不是自己的亲闺女，有些话不好明说，保见又因为害怕他爹不敢说出来。就这样，春娥常常为了家庭的和睦忍气以泪洗面。时间长了，心疼媳妇的保见最终与他爹闹翻。保见爹因私放高利贷被警察询问后，春娥把儿子马驹从瓜地里接回了家。可等春娥再次回瓜地给木仓爹送饭时，木仓爹在劳累过度中沉然睡去，就再也没有醒来。春娥和保见就着瓜地里的一块空地，披麻戴孝地下葬了木仓爹。堆起的新坟前，春娥让儿子马驹跪下给爷爷磕头的那一刻，瓜地里一颗熟透的西瓜“噶”地一声裂成两半，西瓜裂开处，瓜瓤鲜红、瓜子如墨。