血洗英雄堡

　　一个三十多的男人Jung Woo，为了治疗他严重的嗜酒成瘾症，找到了一个在江原道深山的疗养院。在那里遇到了一个深深吸引他的美丽年轻的修女Maria。但他的酒精成瘾症让他整日地在山林里游荡并陷入了被攻击的幻觉，直到遇见了一位常常拜访疗养院的中年猎人。为了猎人背包里的白酒，他加入了猎人的狩猎之旅。没想到却被暴风雪困在了深山里的小屋中。更遭的是，猎人威胁他对自己开枪，否则他们两人都将无法逃出升天。

　　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.

　　影片故事发生在“莱咖国”政权交替之际，黑势力头目宋邦（曾志伟 饰）欲洗白，勾结官员行贿，但遇到了巨额资金缺口。得力干将郑咤（安志杰 饰）与身份成谜的打手苏万（汪东城 饰）杀人越货、横行作恶，一步步帮“老板”上位。就在宋邦以为坐收渔翁之利时，三人的关系发生了惊人反转。

　　路德维克是捷克铁幕时期政府的公务员，一天晚上他和妻子参加政府举办的宴会，在宴会上他得知他的顶头上司被秘密警察抓捕了，他很害怕连累到自己，回家后又发现家里莫名其妙停电了，而大门有别人进来的痕迹，就连电话好像也出现了状况，他怀疑自己也受到了秘密警察的监视，而街上一辆停着不动的小轿车似乎是秘密警察的监视哨，夫妇俩在对于未来的在担惊受怕里相互埋怨、指责，最后演化成对于相互的不理，他们认定自己将是下一个受害者，许多关联的事件让他们越想越怕，并因为害怕被捕而焦虑起来，甚至想到了自杀却因故未成，第二天，他们已经变得绝望静静等待着最坏的结果，这时，电话铃终于响了，电话里传来的却是……

　　本片讲述一个男孩从6岁到18岁的成长历程，导演理查德·林克莱特花了12年时间来完成这部作品。它仔细描画了孩子的成长过程，及其父母亲各个方面的变化，可以让观众细致入微地体会岁月流逝的痕迹。为了不打扰主演艾拉·萨尔蒙的正常生活，拍摄均在他暑假期间的简短时间内完成。