致命武器

　　柯蒂斯（迈克尔·珊农 Michael Shannon 饰）是个建筑工人，非常辛苦地工作养家，幸而和妻子萨曼莎（杰西卡·查斯坦 Jessica Chastain 饰）感情和睦，还有个六岁的听障女儿汉娜。有一天，柯蒂斯被一个非常真实的噩梦惊醒，梦里面有恐怖的龙卷风到来，下起柏油一样的雨，整个镇子被夷为平地。从此类似的噩梦经常出现，柯蒂斯渐渐开始相信，认为这是末世启示，梦里发生的一切都被他带到现实，他开始变得暴躁、沉默，还在家里建风暴掩体，甚至丢了工作。萨曼莎不理解丈夫的一系列变化，认为他生病了，应该看心理医生，还为他花许多钱建毫无用处的东西、买昂贵又毫无用处的防毒面具、丢了工作没了医疗保险大为光火。柯蒂斯的“症状”越来越严重，也越来越为人所不容，他的境遇，取决于他预见的风暴到底会不会到来……

　　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.

　　在阿根廷与荷兰的世界杯决赛期间，在军事独裁统治时期，一群刑讯逼供者暴力闯入一户人家，绑架了一群年轻人并将他们带到一个秘密拘留中心。
　　起初的反人性审讯变成了真正的殉难：一群不好惹的人被绑架了。原来他们是由未知超自然力量引导的恐怖邪教组织的成员。秘密拘留中心即将变成炼狱本狱。

　　一天清晨某村庄的沟壕里出现了一具僵死的女尸。在警察的调查下，死者莫娜（桑德里娜•伯奈尔 Sandrine Bonnaire 饰）的流浪岁月由此被揭开。她身背大包四处露营，与落魄的流浪汉同居在一处房子里，一起抽烟睡觉。一个老妇人的女仆尤兰德满心羡慕莫娜和流浪汉的自在状态，不满男友保罗的简单粗暴。某夜保罗入室行窃打昏流浪汉，莫娜随即不辞而别。接下来她遇到了一对放牧的夫妇，他们给了她土地和住所，期望她能努力过上平静踏实的日子。莫娜不以为然重新上路，在路上搭便车结识了以研究树木为职业的兰迪尔，兰迪尔给予了莫娜短暂的帮助后两人便分道扬镳。此后莫娜又在途中结识了剪葡萄树枝的工人阿兹，无人知晓莫娜的流浪将把她引向何处……