诡拼车

　　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.

　　桂林的某画展上，一群外宾对小希的画赞叹不止。小希的母亲就十分爱好画画，支持小希，但父亲不喜欢他画画。一次，小希被老画家翼来之发现，收他为徒。县文化馆馆长的儿子罗小飞在父亲的“教导”下画的“大批判”画要出版了，而小希在师傅指点下画的小猫却受了批斗。小希一气之下推出小猫，小猫弄翻了小飞家庆功宴的桌子，小飞毒死了小猫，小希难过地画出《群猫游戏图》，受到广泛赞扬。在大厅里，小画家们的画受到外宾喜爱，大家纷纷合影，只有小希还在画着。