张震讲故事之三更夜

　　15年前，阿清因爸爸投资灵骨塔欠债自杀，愤而杀了灵骨塔业务。之后，他隐姓埋名在一渔村打黑工，爱上了越南女子阮春花，但阮春花也被灵骨塔业务诈骗逼债，阿清再度出手要解决诈骗业务阿国，可是他失手了，反而被阿国重击失明。
　　15年后，阿国（游安顺饰）出狱，社会容不下他，女儿和他形同陌路。他充满恨意，寻觅著阿清

　　奥斯卡金像奖得主安吉丽娜·朱莉在著名导演帕布罗·拉雷恩的歌剧《玛丽亚·卡拉斯》中饰演玛丽亚·卡拉斯——20 世纪最具代表性的歌唱家之一。这部电影讲述了这位美籍希腊女高音在经历了辉煌而动荡的公众生活后退隐巴黎的故事。《玛丽亚·卡拉斯》再现了这位传奇女高音的人生最后阶段，讲述了这位天 后如何反思自己的身份和生活。

　　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.

　　An anthology of five horror stories shared by five men trapped in the basement of an office building