生命中不能承受之情

　　When Lauren disappears from a night club and doesn’t return home the next morning, her mother, Michelle, to avoid publicity and a scandal, decides to search for her missing daughter. Michelle soon discovers that her daughter might have been part of a pornographic snuff ring that lures young girls to make their money. Fearing for Lauren’s safety, Michelle hires the help of a store employee to find her daughter. But finding Lauren soon becomes an impossible task as no one really cares about missing girls or a mother’s lover for her baby. In order to find her daughter, Michelle must enter into the darkest and most shocking areas of the industry. Michelle will go anywhere and do anything to find her baby girl. . . How far will you go?

　　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.

　　《热点周刊》实习记者“白雪”暗访乞丐期间，巧遇一个重金助人的神秘乞丐——“秦军”
　　暗访过程中，白雪发现秦军只要饭不要钱，行为举指极其异常。而后白雪一路跟踪秦军来到一个名叫“何家村”的地方，面对亲友们的冷嘲热讽，秦军更是视若无睹。为此，白雪深感好奇，然而，正当她想现身采访秦军的时候，却发现秦军早已离开村庄。
　　带着疑惑，经过一番明查暗访，白雪发现秦军的真实身份竟然是一家集团公司总裁，他为什么要伪装乞丐？为什么刚刚回到家乡便默默离开？亲友得知他的真实身份之后会是什么反应？让我们拭目以待……
　　在《微电影版裸归》中，离乡五年、身价上亿的集团老总“秦军”故意装成一名乞丐回到故乡，曾经整日围绕身边的亲友们看到他的样子，无不对其冷嘲热讽。而当大家了解了他的真实身份之后，又全都变得热情亲近。面对这种虚假的情感，秦军深感痛心，暗叹：当你荣华的时候，聚在你身边的并非全是假士 、但当你困苦的时候，留在你身边的一定是真人！
　　较之微电影版，电影版的故事情节、人物关系更加丰满、深刻，不仅交待了秦军为何五年时间杳无音讯的原由，同时还添加了秦军少年时期的成长经历。