十五岁半

　　辉煌的吉檀迦利家族只剩下公主一个人，当了“女王”的她与权力至上的政客发生矛盾，不知道如何面对以后的种种问题。还好先王最信任的贴身保镖巴瓦尼在女王左右协助她打理一切，慢慢的女王与忠诚的巴瓦尼走得越来越近。
　　总统宣布国家进入紧急状态，政客趁机打击吉檀迦利女王，夺走了皇室的黄金，还逮捕了女王。英勇的巴瓦尼前来拯救女王，召集了自己的朋友，踏上了为女王夺回黄金的道路。 运走黄金的是赛海尔军官，他准备用一辆特殊打造的军用货车将黄金带到新德里。 巴瓦尼一伙能否成功将黄金带还女王？巴瓦尼是否能跟女王在一起？

　　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.

　　健身狂热者Francky近来陷入失恋阴影，其一心想成为网红并破处的死党krimo为了让振作起来提议去泰国著名的芭堤雅“咸湿”海滩散心猎艳。为了省钱，Krimo提议偷偷以小区里侏儒邻居的名义去报名在那举行的侏儒拳击大赛，从而报销机票住宿。于是他们的理想假期就成了一次疯狂的冒险。。。

　　康纳利扮演一个20年警龄的刑事士官长约翰逊，他负责调查镇子上最近发生的三起猥亵女童的案件。很快有一个小女孩失踪，警队展开了地毯式的搜索，约翰逊在树林里发现了女孩。当天晚上，两名巡逻警员发现了一个名叫巴克斯特的衣冠不整者，浑身是泥，他被怀疑是猥亵犯被扣留起来。约翰逊赶回警局后凭直觉断定是巴克斯特所为，用极端残暴的方式将其殴打致死。事后，在刑事督察长卡特怀德的盘问下，约翰逊潜藏在脑袋里的念头开始迸发。