《我们的汽车梦》是汽车之家出品的“平凡的梦想”系列微电影的年度收官之作。影片由汽车之家论坛红人、94后漫画家小秦老师真人出演,讲述了喜欢画车的小秦为了实现汽车梦想,拿出多年的积蓄买车追梦、却落入骗子圈套的曲折搞笑故事。最终,在汽车之家论坛版主、兼职审核员的共同帮助下,骗子诡计被识破,小秦如愿走上追梦之路,收获了属于自己的小幸福。
As a child, Luther Watts was deeply affected by seeing a circus geek (someone who bites the heads off live chickens in a circus sideshow). Finally paroled after serving 20 years in prison, he terrorizes the residents of his hometown by making chicken noises, crowing like a rooster and attacking people. He winds up at a farm run by a woman and her daughter, where he takes them captive and then starts killing off her neighbors. The mother realizes she and her daughter must escape before he kills them, too.
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.
1948年,洛杉矶的经济突趋繁荣,满怀希望的军人伊斯退役后到洛杉矶寻找工作,满怀信心的他,以为像他这样出色的黑人在洛杉矶不难找到合适的位置,怎料好不容易才找到一份在机场内当技工的工作,但不久又被老板解雇,更被房东催收欠租。就在绝望边缘之际,他受聘于神秘男子狄维去找寻一个失踪女子黛芬,而伊斯也因此而堕进狄维的圈套,他也不知不觉间被牵涉到恐吓、谋杀、政治的纠缠之中。
11岁的东尼接受拳击训练,然而她被隔壁舞道教室吸引,偷偷私下练习,并为自己穿耳洞,希望加入那些女孩的行列。女孩们相继出现抽搐、奇怪的症状,仿佛是一种成长的象征,也使得东尼陷入想被认同却又犹疑这样的诡异情景的矛盾之中。
伊朗选送的征战2018年“奥斯卡最佳外语片”的影片。伊朗女导演纳基斯·阿贝耶执导,背景设置在70年代末伊斯兰革命与80年代初两伊战争前后,它是以小女孩视角展开的家庭情节剧,特色鲜明的角色撑起了整个故事,时代背景的介入将主线故事与伊朗社会变迁联系起来,影片结尾以及它要传达的主题便来自于家庭故事与历史背景的交汇,于是冗长的情节剧在被战争打断的那一瞬间放佛才真正有了意义