别惹我

　　这是一部典型的美国英雄主义电影。香港回归前夕，国际恐怖组织和香港的造假巨头准备抢在回归前完成一项走私活动――将一批香港生产的内藏微型炸弹的假冒名牌V6牛仔裤偷运到美国。幸好美国中情局及早察觉了恐怖分子的计划，于是先后派出了特工哈利（保罗•索尔维诺 Paul Sorvino 饰）、汤米（罗伯•施奈德 Rob Schneider 饰）和凯伦（莱拉•罗尚 Lela Rochon 饰）前往香港调查。
　　不料道高一尺魔高一丈，中情局的特工来到香港后先后和局里失去联系身陷囫囵。中情局无奈之下，只好请香港警方出面帮忙调查。香港警方在v6牛仔裤香港供货商马库斯（尚格•云顿 Jean-Claude Van Damme 饰）的帮助下，展开了一场惊心动魄的反恐行动。

　　二战时期，一批美国战俘被关押在德军的监狱里，故事就发生在17号监狱（Stalag 17）。有两名囚犯想要越狱，却被德军所杀，监狱里的囚犯们开始怀疑他们其中有人出卖了他们。大家都把嫌疑集中在一个人身上——狡猾的Sefton（威廉·霍尔登 William Holden 饰）身上。Sefton虽然也是个囚犯，但他靠组织“赛马”、卖酒还有出租望远镜赚了不少钱。不久，一位美国中尉Dunbar（Don Taylor 饰）被抓进狱中。他在法兰克福火车站制造了爆炸案炸死了不少德军。然而此事随即被德军军官Oberst von Scherbach（奥托·普雷明格 Otto Preminger 饰）所获悉。Sefton被认为就是那个泄露了消息的内奸，挨了一顿揍。然而他依旧宣称自己是无辜的。Dunbar即将被纳粹军处死。到底谁才是真正的内奸？到底中尉Dunbar能否逃过一劫？
　　本片主演威廉·霍尔登获1954年奥斯卡影帝，导演比利·怀尔德也获得最佳导演提名。

　　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.

　　赚钱别听巴菲特，靠鬼更胜马斯克。