即便明天世界终结

　　阎锡山主持“清东陵文物展览会”宣布委任那辛为保护文物全国委员会会长。会后，阎锡山命将珍宝登记装箱，派于跃先押送到保文会。溥仪得知后，万分气愤。日本人则说“明取不如暗夺”。不久传闻说保文会被洗劫一空。法庭上，那辛被指控勾结土匪盗宝。为证实真假，那辛在监督下开箱查验。封条未动的珍宝箱内竟然是一堆破砖烂瓦。那辛惊呆了。至此，那辛被推上了被告席，而真正的祸首却逍遥法外。

　　多年情侣蒂姆（戴夫·弗兰科 Dave Franco 饰）和米莉（爱丽森·布里 Alison Brie 饰）来到感情脆弱的关口，开始思考爱是……为了挽回渐淡的感情，决定抛开朋友和工作搬到陌生乡村展开全新二人世界。然而新生活未如理想，更卷入了当地一场超自然力量的恐怖漩涡。身体及意识渐渐变得不受控，当他们的心愈远，肉体却愈贴愈近，肌肤甚至开始无缝结合……电锯是否还给大家自由的唯一解救方法？但染血的爱又那可修补，莫问爱是分离！

　　一个乡下小姑娘扎齐是个言语粗鲁又脾气暴躁的孩子，而且十分叛逆，在说脏话之余还经常与大人们捣乱。可是在巴黎生活的两天时间里，她却感受到成人世界的冷漠和虚伪，发现这个世界存在着严重混乱失序，所有她认识的人都在对她说谎，连她妈妈在内，都缺乏真诚善意的交流和沟通，这使扎齐在离开巴黎时感到自己已经被折腾得老了很多。

　　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.