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　　美国媒体报道，日前，传奇影业对于新启动的把游戏改编成电影的《质量效应》又有了新进展。在诸多游戏迷的担忧下，制作方宣布电影版《质量效应》将会百分百的忠于原著。
　　对于既是影迷又是游戏迷的粉丝们来说这是个令人兴奋的消息，早在2011年5月份，传奇影业就已经宣布买下了热门游戏《质量效应》系列的改编权。《质量效应》是一款融入了射击、动作和科幻于一体的角色扮演游戏。游戏背景设定在宇宙范围，角色扮演中有宇宙维和部队精英维护宇宙的安宁而展开的星际冒险。据悉，男主角还有隔空取物的超能力。
　　曾经担任《我是传奇》、《雷神》的编剧的马克·普鲁托塞维奇将编写电影版《质量效应》的剧本。而目前斯皮尔伯格正在筹拍的《侏罗纪公园4》的剧本也是由马克负责。
　　据传奇影业透露，电影版《质量效应》不会照搬第一、二版的游戏，将会有全新的故事情节。而游戏《质量效应3》将在2012年3月份上市，电影版《质量效应》很有可能会沿用《质量效应3》的剧情。目前影片可以确定男主角，而且会忠于原著中男主角的特质。至于影片是否会拍成三部曲，这还要看第一部的票房反响。

　　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.

　　11岁的东尼接受拳击训练，然而她被隔壁舞道教室吸引，偷偷私下练习，并为自己穿耳洞，希望加入那些女孩的行列。女孩们相继出现抽搐、奇怪的症状，仿佛是一种成长的象征，也使得东尼陷入想被认同却又犹疑这样的诡异情景的矛盾之中。