绿色的远方

　　劳伦和桑迪都生长在纽约，这两个年轻女演员的出身和性格似乎都处于不可调和的两个极端：优雅迷人的劳伦一心盼望着能扮演哈姆雷特，而粗俗矮胖的桑迪则对哈姆雷特一无所知。她们在同一个班学习表演时都倾心于英俊的教师迈克尔·桑切斯。但有一天，桑切斯却突然失踪了。劳伦和桑迪这对冤家一起去找他，但在寻找的过程中两人都发现了对方身上的优点，遂结为了好友。她们看见桑切斯进了一家花店，随后花店发生了爆炸。警察说桑切斯被炸死了，但她们又看到了桑切斯，还跟踪他到了湖边的小屋里。中央情报局的特工告诉了她们一个惊人的消息：原来桑切斯是苏联的克格勃，他逼迫美国政府用重金赎回他偷走的装有化学毒品的瓶子。桑切斯在她们准备帮助政府将瓶子偷回时将劳伦拐走，劳伦趁其不备时逃了出来，在追逐的过程中，桑切斯失足摔死。风波过去后，劳伦和桑迪回到了纽约。劳伦的心愿终于得到了满足，她扮演了梦寐以求的哈姆雷特，而桑迪扮演的则是哈姆雷特的情人奥菲莉娅。

　　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.

 故事发生在不远的未来，人类已成功实现太空探索，庞大的德尔塔空间站‘Delta Station’矗立于地球轨道。维修工程师马克西姆·博尔特尼科夫（Alexander Kuznetsov饰演）与团队执行常规维护任务时，遭遇质子风暴引发的灾难性事故。被抛入太空的马克西姆与队友失联，仅能通过通讯系统联系同样受困的空间站调度员安娜（安娜·奇波夫斯卡娅饰）。在这场与时间赛跑的生存危机中，他不仅要突破极限完成自救，还必须穿越致命辐射带营救同伴。随着二人深入调查，逐渐揭露这场"意外"背后隐藏着足以摧毁整个空间站的阴谋。