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　　甘地热潮正席卷印度全国，其中一个原因可以说是拜本片所赐。本片讲述黑道人物姆纳为了追求一名电台女DJ，讹称自己是大学教授，不惜恶补甘地生平，以便参加电台问答比赛。当他日刨夜刨时，甘地的鬼魂就在他眼前出现，教导他如何以非暴力手段应付人生逆境。在这出黑道人物追女仔的电影中，圣雄甘地的角色几乎由头演到尾，甘地的哲学和精神也贯彻了全片。本片在首都新德里开画一星期后，市政府以该片宣扬甘地追求真理和非暴力抗争，宣布该片可以豁免缴交娱乐税。同样地，印度中部切蒂斯格尔邦也因本片表扬甘地的价值观，具有教育意义，宣扬正面讯息，也给予该片免税的地位。

　　主要讲述到石狮上学的江西男孩小树和石狮退休体育老师黄文胜的友情故事。
　　体育老师黄文胜发现小树的短跑天赋后，为小树精心安排训练，激发其夺冠的信心。值得一提的是，整个电影的画面拍摄都是在石狮取景，在讲述故事的同时，还展示了石狮的城市风貌、历史文化、商业氛围、人文情怀，反映石狮人包容、友善、乐于助人的精神品质。

　　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.

　　一名年轻女子和她的未婚夫搬进了一套新公寓，却被隔壁大楼里一个陌生人监视的感觉折磨着。

　　一个时尚编辑和一个模特儿到另一座城市出差，两人各自发生艳遇，但春梦一觉醒来，才得见内心的惶恐。上世纪50年代的伯格曼作品经常有强迫深刻的意味，如本片对女性梦想、痛苦、挣扎等跟男人的关系作了探讨，虽然是部讽刺喜剧，但有一种焦距不准的模糊。