别名:无法置信的事实
演员:安德林妮·夏莉,罗伯特·约翰·伯克,马特·马洛伊,凯莉·莱卡特
导演:霍尔·哈特利
年代:1989
地区:美国
语言:英语
Fraught with over obvious symbolism, Hartley's early feature is nonetheless a joy to watch. Hal here shows us his uncanny ability to cast his characters perfectly came early in his career.
Adrienne Shelley is a near perfect foil to herself, equal parts annoying teen burgeoning in her sexuality (though using sex for several years); obsessed with doom and inspired by idealism gone wrong she is deceptively – and simultaneously – complex and simple. Her Audrey inspires so many levels of symbolism it is almost embarrassingly rich (e.g., her modeling career beginning with photos of her foot – culminating her doing nude (but unseen) work; Manhattan move; Europe trip; her stealing, then sleeping with the mechanics wrench, etc.)
As Josh, Robert Burke gives an absolutely masterful performance. A reformed prisoner/penitent he returns to his home town to face down past demons, accept his lot and begin a new life. Dressed in black, and repeatedly mistaken for a priest, he corrects everyone ("I'm a mechanic"), yet the symbolism is rich: he abstains from alcohol, he practices celibacy (is, in fact a virgin), and seemingly has taken on vows of poverty, and humility as well. The humility seems hardest to swallow seeming, at times, almost false, a pretense. Yet, as we learn more of Josh we see genuineness in his modesty, that his humility is indeed earnest and believable. What seems ironic is the character is fairly forthright in his simplicity, yet so richly drawn it becomes the viewer who wants to make him out as more than what he actually is. A fascinatingly written character, perfectly played.
The scene between Josh and Jane (a wonderful, young Edie Falco . . . "You need a woman not a girl") is hilarious . . . real. But Hartley can't leave it as such and his trick, having the actors repeat the dialogue over-and-over becomes frustratingly "arty" and annoying . . . until again it becomes hilarious. What a terrific sense of bizarre reality this lends the film (like kids in a perpetual "am not"/"are too" argument).
Hartley's weaves all of a small neighborhood's idiosyncrasies into a tapestry of seeming stereotypes but which delves far beneath the surface, the catalyst being that everyone believes they know what the "unbelievable truth" of the title is, yet no two people can agree (including our hero) on what exactly that truth is. A wonderful little movie with some big ideas.
别名:Beyond Belief,难以置信
别名:不可置信(港) / 难,置信(台)
别名:难以置信号残骸中的珍宝 | 难以置信的沉船之宝藏(台)
别名:不可思议的爱
别名:Unbelievable!!!!!
别名:Beyond Belief
别名:桃色入侵(台) | 不可思议 | 生育危机
别名:消防员,Cesium Fallout
别名:SANA: LET ME HEAR
别名:小少年,Stand By Me
别名:小丑2,小丑:双重疯狂(台),小丑:双疯(港),小丑2:二联性精神病,小丑2:双重疯狂,Joker 2
别名:Successor
别名:Land of Broken Hearts
别名:虎狼之路,虎狼行动,大路与樱,Tiger Wolf Rabbit,Tiger Wolf Road
别名:War and Revolt,Uprising