In this scathing and subversive social comedy, life in post riot Los Angeles is dissected under the sardonic eye of John Boyz, an unemployed thirty nothing flounderer on Venice Beach who is trying to figure out what to do with his life. John can't be bothered with apathy, but no matter how much he wants to help people, he is too immobilized to do anything useful. Haunted by chronic insomnia and impending sense of doom, all he can do is watch, and John is an avid observer. Through his voyeuristic binoculars, he struggles to make sense of all the alienation and disaffection he sees in his neighborhood. In his journal he meticulously chronicles the mundane down to steadfast march of ants across his kitchen counter. John is desperately trying to keep one meaningless day from blending into next. He compulsively watches homemade videos of LA riots looking for a clue. But everywhere around him the city's social fabric is coming apart at the seams, and now it is John Boys's own threadbare ...
这是导演的成名之作,罗伯特自掏腰包拍了这部低成本的黑色电影,结果一炮而红。影片讲述的是一名心狠手辣的罪犯成功越狱后,来到小镇伺机找他的仇家报仇,仇家的手下只知道那个罪犯将武器藏在吉他盒子里随身携带,而从来都没有见过他本人。一名流浪的吉他手(卡洛斯•加拉尔多 Carlos Gallardo 饰)凑巧这时来到小镇谋生,于是,莫名其妙的他就被卷入了一场不知所谓的追杀中。追杀的场面被导演演绎的笑料百出,黑色幽默表现的淋漓尽致。
小男孩马基(麦克斯·雷诺丹 Max Renaudin 配音)一家人被猎人绑架,当作了奴隶准备贩卖到法国。马基趁着猎人熟睡之机,偷偷挣脱了手铐,开始了逃亡。路上遇到了长颈鹿“扎拉法”(黛博拉·弗朗索瓦 Déborah François 配音),不幸的是猎人沿着脚印追了上来,将“扎拉法”的母亲杀害了,马基答应“扎拉法”的母亲一定会照顾好他。危急关头沙漠王子汉森(西蒙·阿布卡瑞安 Simon Abkarian 配音)挺身而出,猎人被赶走了,汉森牵着“扎拉法”准备回自己的王国,马基信守诺言一直跟着汉森。回到王国后,汉森奉命将“扎拉法”带到法国,献给法国国王,请求他们出兵援助他们。他们从港口乘着热气球出发,经过阿尔卑斯和马赛达到巴黎,一路上艰难坎坷,马基能带“扎拉法”回非洲吗,法国国王是否会出兵援救呢……