狂野追踪

　　生活让野心勃勃的马戏团学徒蒂龙.鲍尔变成一个欺诈的艺术家和逐渐地进入一个假宗教性的印度教，他的生活从此就开始围着其导师旋转。与此同时，人翁斯丹并没有为五光十色的嘉年华会所迷恋而停留，因为他的心早就飞去了高档夜晚俱乐部......

　　被麻袋罩着头、被绳子绑在一起的如月、初花月、殷春和弥生四人走在树林里，负责押解的霜月和冰月不仅不让她们休息，甚至不给她们水喝。霜月和冰月是伊贺的忍者，两人受命掳走敌对甲贺村落的女子，带回伊贺作慰安妇。和轻浮的冰月形成对比，霜月一脸冷漠地默默执行任务。女人们不知道自己为什么会被绑架，她们的反抗完全没有用。　　突然，神秘男子神无出现，绳子松开了，女人们四散而逃。霜月、冰月以及神无展开了追击。冰月好像猫逗老......

　　一名警察在一次办案中陷入了一场风波。他接下来的任务是营救上级领导的女儿，在这个过程中会有一位女探员和他一同合作完成任务，警察是否可以顺利完成呢？

　　日活暴力粉紅導演長谷部安春1967年的作品，並以藤井鷹史之名參與撰寫劇本。宍戶錠、藤竜也和岡崎二朗飾演的黑田家三兄弟反抗殘酷黑幫組織的，最後的決戰由長男單槍匹馬大戰敵人，更是硬派的動作場面中的經典場面。

　　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.