在并不遥远的2024年,人类社会危机重重。地球能源日渐枯竭,世界经济开始崩溃。Trexx集团将地铁连接成巨大的网络,名之为Metro。在这个网络具象化的世界里,人们躲在地下,如同工蚁一般奔忙劳碌,无欲无求。罗格(文森特·加洛 Vincent Gallo 配音)是一名电话接待员,与其他人相比,他似乎显得过于孤僻。在人们都习惯了地铁生活之时,只有罗格每天骑着单车上下班,穿梭于充满污染和破败的城市街头,孤独无助。直到某天早晨,罗格的自行车被人毁坏,他不得不乘坐地铁上班。一段奇妙的经历就此展开……
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现就职于纽约的邮局职工雅各布·辛格(蒂姆·罗宾斯 Tim Robbins 饰),曾是在越战中险象环生的退伍老兵。不堪回首的破碎记忆时刻刺痛着他的每一根神经,失败的第一次婚姻,夭折死去的儿子,以及折磨他最深的越战后遗症。他常常出现在越战服役期间被追杀的幻觉,熟悉又陌生 的种种细节,亦幻亦真。他的现任妻子试图帮助雅各布忘却这段痛苦的记忆,然而这些穿梭在梦境和现实里的情节遭遇,让雅各布彻底失去了理智。每当生死攸关的时刻,雅各布总会在另外一个时空醒来。孰真孰假的错觉,让他游离在现实和幻想的世界中不能自拔。
Abandoned by his father at the age of five and raised in near isolation by a loving, yet emotionally unstable and over-protective mother, the only life Peel Munter has ever known is within the confines of his childhood home. Upon his mother's unexpected death, 30-year-old Peel is left lost and utterly alone. With no job, family, or friends, he must make a choice; live as his mother did, lonely and unsettled, or change the course of his impending fate by breaking out into the unknown, facing the trials and tribulations of an outside world he doesn't understand. Unable to make the house payments, Peel decides to take in a couple of drifters as roommates. After forging what seems to be a burgeoning new family and brotherhood, one of the roommates betrays Peel's trust, compelling Peel to venture out in search of his long-lost, real brothers who had been taken away from him decades ago. Along the way, Peel's lack of cynicism and innocence has an inadvertent, yet powerful effect on those he meets, as he brings a group of marginalized misfits closer to their true home.