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　　美国媒体报道，日前，传奇影业对于新启动的把游戏改编成电影的《质量效应》又有了新进展。在诸多游戏迷的担忧下，制作方宣布电影版《质量效应》将会百分百的忠于原著。
　　对于既是影迷又是游戏迷的粉丝们来说这是个令人兴奋的消息，早在2011年5月份，传奇影业就已经宣布买下了热门游戏《质量效应》系列的改编权。《质量效应》是一款融入了射击、动作和科幻于一体的角色扮演游戏。游戏背景设定在宇宙范围，角色扮演中有宇宙维和部队精英维护宇宙的安宁而展开的星际冒险。据悉，男主角还有隔空取物的超能力。
　　曾经担任《我是传奇》、《雷神》的编剧的马克·普鲁托塞维奇将编写电影版《质量效应》的剧本。而目前斯皮尔伯格正在筹拍的《侏罗纪公园4》的剧本也是由马克负责。
　　据传奇影业透露，电影版《质量效应》不会照搬第一、二版的游戏，将会有全新的故事情节。而游戏《质量效应3》将在2012年3月份上市，电影版《质量效应》很有可能会沿用《质量效应3》的剧情。目前影片可以确定男主角，而且会忠于原著中男主角的特质。至于影片是否会拍成三部曲，这还要看第一部的票房反响。

　　基特（亨利·戈尔丁 Henry Golding 饰）年幼时跟随着父母躲避战火，一家人从越南前往英国，之后就再也没有回去过。一晃眼三十年过去，基特的父母早就双双离开了人世，基特带着两人的骨灰打算返回越南，让双亲的魂魄能够在故乡的土壤里安息。
　　当基特踏上阔别了三十年的祖国的故土时，内心里百感交集。这里的一切都和他模糊的记忆截然不同，久远的过去对于基特来说仿佛一场快要消弭的梦。在越南，基特在社交软件上结识了一个名为路易斯（帕克·索耶 Parker Sawyers 饰）的男人，路易斯的父亲曾经参加过越南战争，即便两人在国别和立场上有着微妙的对立，但他们之间还是渐渐碰撞出了爱情的火花。

　　香港某大型医院，外科主任医师佟倩（赵薇 饰）刚刚完成例行巡视。接二连三的手术让她的神经高度紧张，加上有的患者术后情况并不理想，无形间使她的精神承受了巨大的压力。就在此时，一名遭受枪伤的男子被紧急送到医院。对方名叫张礼信（钟汉良 饰），是一个胆大包天且狡诈非常的高智商罪犯。虽然头部中枪，但幸运的是并未给他造成巨大的创伤。从昏迷中醒来的张拒绝手术，仿佛正耐心等待时机。监视并开枪射伤他的警官陈伟乐（古天乐 饰）高度紧张，他急于知道对方同伙的下落，为此不惜采用非法手段。
　　医患如织的医院内，短短六个小时里，警察、医生和悍匪三方展开了艰苦卓绝的角力……

　　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.