曼谷杀手

　　故事以倒叙形式表达。夏氏兄弟经营之公司业务蒸蒸日上，原来背后有一段曲折往事。夏云骧年老病危，临终时不忘教诲儿子二人要兄弟同心，相亲相爱。长子仲觉敦厚踏实事父至孝，幼子仲慧却沉迷赌博玩乐。表妹江静霞自幼寄居夏家，钟情于二表哥慧，常与觉规劝慧，慧却疑父偏爱兄长，不时与觉冲突。
　　骧病逝，觉不支病倒，慧欲独占家产，逼老仆忠伯在觉的药中下毒，觉毒发身亡后，慧终日被觉的鬼魂缠绕，更误把新婚妻子霞当作觉，把她杀死，觉鬼魂再度出现欲扼杀慧。。。。。。慧惊醒，方知是噩梦一场，赶忙阻止觉服下毒药，并向兄忏悔改过。两兄弟携手合作经营父亲遗业，创出佳绩。

明明在心爱的人面前，千言万语无从诉说。看着她在新环境中感情的变迁，一时的阻挠不过徒劳的挣扎，世界上最遥远的距离莫过于此。孟子言作为痴情男一枚，虽有些地方细思极恐，但饱经冷暖后依旧用自己的方式守卫自己的爱情，这份真情令人动容。故事的核心是“爱情的忠贞”，《爱在异次元》以一个奇幻而有趣的爱情故事，展现了95后对于爱情执着而纯真的一面。

　　一名孤身穿越明尼苏达北境雪原的女子，意外撞破少女绑架现场。百里荒原杳无人烟，暴雪割断通讯网络，她成为深陷绝境的少女唯一生机。

　　一个靠开出租车勉强维持生计的小商贩，在和银行顾问的会面中得知，自己为了挽救作坊获得贷款而准备支付给银行顾问的一笔贿金翻倍了，道德监管委员会在审查他对银行家敲诈的投诉时，竟然也要从中分一杯羹。被逼迫至理性边缘的商贩，开枪打死了银行家，紧接着饮枪自尽。这个事件在广播上引起了全国上下关于公民社会的讨论。与此同时，六个出租车司机和他们的乘客正在黑夜中行驶，每个人都希望找到美好生活的方向。
　　整部影片发生在24小时之内，人们坐着出租车，去偷情、去谋杀，抑或去奔赴自己生命的未知……每个故事都是手持拍摄的一镜到底。为了实现这一技术，导演带着剧组人员开车驶遍了保加利亚首都索菲亚的大街小巷。每年保加利亚出品的影片极少，电影产业缺乏国家资金投入，然而这并没有减弱这部小成本电影的艺术成就。导演史蒂芬•柯曼达瑞夫正在用身体力行的方式，为保加利亚电影产业和现实生活寻找着方向。

　　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.