易直干因为酒认识了大口九和夏水道等一帮朋友,在一次酒场中解救了姑娘毕一萍并和她发展成为情侣。但他同样也因为酒失去了工作,兄弟和爱人因酒相聚,也因酒相离。易直干手握酒杯,清醒和沉醉交替,渐渐的迷失了自己。
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.
【尋寶智多星】(Treasure of Matecumbe)是迪士尼在1976年所推出上映的一部電影,是部走冒險路線的作品。 【尋寶智多星】的劇情故事改編自 Robert Lewis Taylor 的小說《A Journey to Matecumbe》,故事背景是發生在經歷南北戰爭之後的美國肯塔西州,少年 Davie Burnie 意外得知了他家族代代相傳的一大秘密,那就是一張通往神秘 Matecumbe 寶藏的藏寶圖,在佛羅里達蠻荒之處,深埋著這個失落許久的寶藏,於是少年 Davie 就踏上了他的尋寶之途。他與四位同伴結伴同行,他們分別是 Jim 、Lauriette Paxton 、Thad 以及 Ewing T. Snodgrass 博士。然而 Davie 父親生前的死對頭 Spangler 也虎視眈眈,也伺機想奪得 Matecumbe 寶藏,而且還有颶風、印地安人、沼澤種種威脅等待著他們,他們必須一一化險為夷,才能找到神秘的寶藏。 本片是由 Vincent McEveety 執導,片中飾演少年 Davie 的是 Johnny Doran ;飾演 Jim 的則是 Robert Foxworth ;飾演 Lauriette Paxton 的則是 Joan Hackett ;飾演 Ewing T. Snodgrass 博士的則是還曾經演過迪士尼電影【黑鬍子】等片的 Peter Ustinov ;至於和 Davie 生死與共的少年 Thad 則由 Billy Attmore 擔任;大反派 Spangler 則是由 Vic Morrow 擔任,片中其他演員還包括 Jane Wyatt 、Dick Van Patten 、Virginia Vincent …等等。至於本片配樂則由 Buddy Baker 負責,歌曲“Matecumbe”則是由 Shane Tatum 所作。
灵感来源于上世纪七十年代初发生在波兰的真实事件。故事围绕一个年轻的警官被任命为调查组主管,追查一系列残暴杀害女性案件的凶手展开。