拳神

　　When Lauren disappears from a night club and doesn’t return home the next morning, her mother, Michelle, to avoid publicity and a scandal, decides to search for her missing daughter. Michelle soon discovers that her daughter might have been part of a pornographic snuff ring that lures young girls to make their money. Fearing for Lauren’s safety, Michelle hires the help of a store employee to find her daughter. But finding Lauren soon becomes an impossible task as no one really cares about missing girls or a mother’s lover for her baby. In order to find her daughter, Michelle must enter into the darkest and most shocking areas of the industry. Michelle will go anywhere and do anything to find her baby girl. . . How far will you go?

　　克里斯与西塞莉是一对年轻的爱人，一个是国际记者，一个是剧场演员，他们挣扎于要兼顾爱情还是要冲刺事业中，爱得很深，又非常骄傲，两个常年分居，独自生活……（by波迪与鹅）
　　In New York, the rookie newsman Christopher "Chris" Tyler dreams on becoming a famous journalist. When his girlfriend Cicely spends a couple of days with him, they decide to get married and Cicely leaves college. Chris's best friend Tommy Abbott is his best man and becomes a family's friend. Chris has his great chance when his editor Frank Carteret sends him to Rome assigned as a foreign correspondent. Cicely stays in New York with Tommy and does not tell to Chris that she is pregnant. When she delivers the baby Kit, Chris celebrates and loses a big scoop and his boss fires him. Chris falls in disgrace and the couple has economic difficulties; however Tommy lends money to Cicely and offers an opportunity on the stage as an actress. Cicely is hired and becomes successful and Chris is depressed with the situation. Cicely seeks out Frank Carteret and explains the situation, and he offers a job opportunity to Chris in Russia. He accepts the job but Cicely stays in New York with their son....

　　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.

　　马蒂（塞巴斯蒂安·弗拉斯多夫 Sebastian Fräsdorf 饰）是一个性格非常软弱的男人，遇事只会忍气吞声，毫无反抗意识。这年夏天，马蒂带着女友（Alice Pehlivanyan 饰）来到别墅度假，打算在这里度过一个悠闲而又浪漫的假日，哪知道，马蒂那平日里处处咄咄逼人的哥哥（戈德哈尔德·吉瑟 Godehard Giese 饰）带着老婆突然出现。
　　明明是后发制人，但哥哥理所应当的占据了屋子里最好的房间和资源，将马蒂和女友赶到了又小又阴暗的房间里，让女友气不打一处来的是，马蒂对于这些越轨的行为竟然全然接受。忍不了这口气的女友决定帮助马蒂出气，小小的别墅中，针锋相对的四人开始了拉锯战。

　　清朝末年，京东镖局的当家松三爷（王劲松 饰）正在为镖局的债务发愁，曾经的“天下第一”镖局，如今却如此落败，让松三爷好不感慨。这时，洋务派的领袖奕丰王爷，决定在国内举行比武大会，以便重振国威。比武大会不仅可以得到“天下第一”的称号，还可以获得万两奖金。于是，松三爷的远方表亲，爱出点子的镖局师爷诸葛明（张默 饰）向松三爷提议，参加这场比武大赛。
　　为了偿还债款，松三爷踏上了去往京城的比武之路。在路上，他邂逅了各路人马，其中包括骗子艳玲（黄小蕾 饰），她很快夺得了松三爷的信任。各路高手纷纷奔赴京城，而手无缚鸡之力的松三爷，却阴差阳错的过五关斩六将，磕磕盼盼的进入了决赛环节，艳玲也慢慢假戏真做起来。而这背后却隐藏着一个大危机，在向众人逼近……