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　　国际大都会香港，残忍冷酷的当纳卡（基努·李维斯 Keanu Reeves 饰）暗中组织地下黑拳，只手遮天。香港反黑组派出卧底潜入其中，然当督察孙靖诗（莫文蔚 饰）率队冲入现场时，却发现卧底早已被当纳卡无情杀害。在此之后，当纳卡四处网罗卓越出众的格斗高手。恰在此时，全国武术锦标赛隆重召开，出自灵空太极门的陈林虎（陈虎 饰）轻松击败夺冠热门，名震全场，也由此引起当纳卡的注意。接受到邀请的林虎赶赴香港，虽然认为用太极赚钱有辱师门，但为了改变师父所在的“灵空观”被拆除的命运和家人的生活现状，他还是选择成为当纳卡旗下的一名选手。
　　在此过程中，誓不言败的绢秀注意到林虎的行踪，一切朝着不可预测的方向发展……

　　同志Henry接到祖父病重的消息。他决定暂时放下自己在纽约颇成功的事业，回答家乡照料老人，然而，在家乡他又遇见了他，那个让他多年前心碎离开的好友：一个直男，已经离婚，带着两个孩子独自生活。
　　而这位直男慢慢也开始困惑于自己对好友的感情，到底是友情还是爱情。他尝试从爱情上去接纳他，最终还是失败，毕竟他是个直人。
　　男主角一直把心思放在直人身上，却不知镇上杂货店的印第安人老板已悄悄地爱上了自己。老板每天费尽心思地为他病重的爷爷调理饮食，却羞涩木讷地不敢向他表白（这小镇的同志还真多）。在本镇那些友善的居民朋友的撮合下，他和老板终于走倒了一起。
　　故事发生在美丽的蒙大拿山区，风景优美，民风淳朴。

　　和丈夫离婚后，朱丽叶（希拉里·斯万克 Hilary Swank 饰）的生活走入了低谷，为了重振士气，她决定搬家。新的环境，新的邻居，友好又善良的房东麦克斯（杰弗里·迪恩·摩根 Jeffrey Dean Morgan 饰），这一切让朱丽叶总算是解开了心中长久以来的郁结。
　　随着时间的推移，一些奇怪的事情开始在朱丽叶的周围发生，预感告诉朱丽叶，有一个充满了邪恶气息的陌生人如影随形般地监视着自己的一举一动。为了找到幕后黑手，朱丽叶在房间里设置了录影机，真相让朱丽叶汗毛倒竖，原来，那个神出鬼没的不速之客竟然正是房东麦克斯。更糟糕的是，当朱丽叶拼尽全力企图接近真相之时，她也正在一步一步的走入麦克斯为她设下的圈套之中。

　　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.