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　　扎西和央金朝夕相处，彼此相爱。一天，农奴主珠玛太太骑马游玩，马受惊突然狂奔起来，在这千钧一发之际，扎西冒险救了珠玛太太。为此，珠玛答应扎西替央金还清债后，就让他俩成亲。但是，朗色活佛企图霸占央金，他以扎西的央金的结合违背神意为由，剜去扎西的左眼。央金誓死不从朗色，被投进了雅鲁藏布江，抛下了她和扎西生的出世不久的一对双胞胎女儿，姐姐取名达娃，妹妹取名尼玛。为了瞒过主人，扎西以“大叔”的名义将她们抚养下来。一九五七年，西藏一小撮上层反动分子准备叛乱，这时达娃和尼玛已经十八岁了。她们在支差路上发现珠玛从国外偷运的武器。当她们要去报告解放军时，朗色将达娃杀害。一九五九年叛乱活动被平息。两年前投奔解放军的尼玛和工作队一起回到家乡。奴隶们在工作队的领导下纷纷而起，珠玛太太和朗色活佛受到了应得的惩罚，扎西和尼玛父女团聚，世代当牛做马的奴隶真正站起来了。

　　2003年的中国，社会变革激荡，人们野心勃勃。当时互联网尚未席卷一切，纸媒为王。没钱、没学历、没背景的“三无青年”韩东（白客 饰）怀揣新闻理想与女友小竹（苗苗 饰）开始了北漂生涯，期间在知名记者黄江（张颂文 饰）的帮助下进入报社实习，在一次案件调查中，韩东发现了背后更大的真相。一边是光明的前途，一边是心中的正义，韩东在两难中选择挺身而出……

　　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.

民国初期，逃兵皮四追踪假道士至湘西天门镇揭露其拐卖少女的赶尸阴谋，没想到竟然扯出闯王宝藏的传说，引起多方窥探。皮四最终军阀爱女杨佩如成为欢喜冤家，并在有土司少爷和苗族少女帮助下逐渐解开宝藏的秘密，引发一连串的夺宝闹剧。