The Golden Boat is inspired by American police series, mixed with Mexican soap operas, and immersed in the artistic context of the Underground Art scene of the early 1990s of New York. In the street, a young student of philosophy and criticism at The Village Voice, Israel Williams, meets Austin, an old man hurt and desperately in love with a soap opera star. Although he was stabbed several times, Austin does not seem to be affected by his injuries and refuses to go to see a doctor. He asks Israel to help him find his alienated son. Things get complicated when Israel discovers that the old man turns out to be a murderer. Israel is soon losing itself in a strange world populated by international celebrities, Marxist employees, and postmodern literary critics. Shortly summed up as an absurdist odyssey through downtown Manhattan with a sweet old serial killer, a student rock-music critic, and international bohemians. The film is centered around the curious student Israel and the knife-happy Austin. Criminals in the film are desensitized and/or numb, with themes centralized around death, confusion, craziness, cowardice and loneliness. There are certainly more questions raised than answers given and the narrative seems to unfold in a way that parallels the narrative that is life. The film is primarily shot in color during which the audio, or music, seems to undermine the visuals through a technique of cutting in and out quickly. Ruiz jumps back and forth quite a bit from color to black and white visuals, during which the music seems to play a different role, for during the black and white shots the music seems to add to the visuals in a hyper-melodramatic way. 译文(3): 《金船》的灵感来源于美国警察系列，与墨西哥肥皂剧混合，沉浸在20世纪90年代初纽约地下艺术场景的艺术背景中。在街上，the Village Voice的一名哲学和批评专业的年轻学生伊斯雷尔·威廉姆斯（Israel Williams）遇到了奥斯汀（Austin），他是一位受伤的老人，绝望地爱上了一位肥皂剧明星。尽管奥斯汀被刺伤了好几刀，但他似乎没有受到伤势的影响，拒绝去看医生。他请求以色列帮助他找到他疏远的儿子。当以色列发现这个老人原来是个杀人犯时，事情变得复杂起来。以色列很快就迷失在一个由国际名人、马克思主义雇员和后现代文学评论家组成的陌生世界中。