未来罪行

　　白赖仁（李子雄 饰）野心勃勃，一心想控制人类，差仁者领袖虎大介杀死了菊池博士，抢走了万能的“赤盒”，伹他却打不开。得知音乐家高比（黄子华 饰）能打开盒子，他遂派人将其生擒。与此同时，菊池的学生女忍者香也在追杀高比，而令一面，芭蕉先生派爱徒小灵（黄圣依 饰）则暗中保护高比。三路人马狭路相逢，展开龙争虎斗，最终小灵杀出重围。芭蕉夜入白府盗赤盒不成，反被虎大介取走性命，并连累村民惨遭屠杀，于心不忍的高比以自刎相威胁，总算中止了白赖仁的屠夫行径。高比以乐曲为钥匙打开了赤盒，白赖仁惊喜万分，以为掌握了控制人类的秘笈。但小灵、女忍者香能就此罢手吗......

　　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.

　　鄭家一家人因父親鶴松（音譯）臨終而聚在一起，雖然他們表現上看起來一切順遂，享受著「主流」的生活，但受到過去家庭陰影的影響，他們被難以言喻的焦慮與不安籠罩著。
　　祖父母在殖民時期靠著親日運動而致富，父親經過韓戰，培養出獨裁獨斷一家之主的形象，而女兒自幼就活在父親暴力的陰影下。透過一家三代的歷史軌跡，本片揭露了家人失和的開端，以及種種決定決定是如何影響當前的他們。