The Right of the Weakest is the 6th feature film by Lucas Belvaux, winner of the 2003 Louis-Delluc Prize for his trilogy (FCP 2003).

Living in Liege, a Belgian industrial town that's slipping into redundancy, three friends, unemployed after the closure of the steel mill where they worked, can only look on impotently as their lives slip away. Yet after meeting terse loner Marc (writer-director Belvaux), a criminal newly released from prison and determined to go straight, they hit upon a plan: to muster their courage, rob a local factory, and split the proceeds. But will fortune smile (for once) upon the little guy? Or will the status quo prove inescapable? Like a cross between the politically-conscious social realism of Ken Loach, and the gritty underworld sagas of Jean-Pierre Melville, Belvaux's latest feature is remarkable: imbuing the drama with a powerful sense of its setting (the factories, the pubs, the dismal public housing), and peopled by characters for whom the viewer cares passionately.
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《弱者的理由》是導演盧卡．貝爾和執導的第六部長片，他拍攝的三部曲電影（ 2003 年法國電影節）曾贏得 2003 年 Louis-Delluc 電影大獎。

本片以利殊，比利時東邊一座繁榮不再的工業城市作背景，故事講述三個老友同時因為鋼鐵工廠倒閉而陷入失業的困境，他們每天無奈地看著生命在他們身邊流逝。然而，當他們遇上了剛從監獄釋放出來並立心不再犯錯的罪犯馬克（盧卡士．貝爾和飾）時，他們想到了一個計劃：就是鼓起勇氣去打劫當地的一家工廠，然後分贓。但幸運之神會否（至少一次）眷顧這些小人物呢？又或者是再一次證明命運總是弄人的？貝爾和導演的這部新作非常出色，它有點兒像堅盧治拍攝的那些政治意識濃厚的社會寫實電影，亦有點兒像梅維爾描寫下層社會堅毅不屈的長篇故事。 場景（工廠、酒吧、環境陰暗的公共屋  ）加強了劇情的震撼力，而觀眾對劇中人的遭遇更是感同身受。

2006 / Color 彩色 / 116mins

Social Thriller 社會 驚 慄片
English subtitles 英文字幕

Director 導演 ：
Lucas Belvaux
盧卡 ‧ 貝爾和

Cast 演員： Eric Caravaca, Lucas Belvaux, Claude Semal
艾力‧卡夏華加、
盧卡‧貝爾和、
葛羅特‧沈邁爾