心灵投手

艾丽丝是一家火柴厂的女工，每天过着单调乏味的生活。她和继父、母亲住在一起，却相处得并不融洽，在家没有个人自由，甚至会因琐事遭到继父殴打。而工厂麻木、枯燥的生活也让她心情烦躁，她唯一的乐趣是到酒吧喝酒、听歌，并因此遇见了一个男人，且匆忙草率地以身相许。而第二天早上，男人留下了一张钞票。对于这一切，艾丽丝并不明白其中的含义，却一厢情愿以为这是爱情。不久，艾丽丝发现自己怀孕了，她找到了这个男人，但他并不想负责任。可是，艾丽丝还是想生下这个孩子，但随后的一场车祸让她失去了最后的梦想。悲伤和羞愧让艾丽丝失去平衡，她到药房买了灭鼠药，对所有曾经亏欠她的人进行冷酷无情的报复，直至警察的来到才结束了这一切

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　　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.

　　尼克罗（托马斯·米连 Tomas Milian 饰）是一名电影导演，一次偶然中，他邂逅了名为马维（达妮埃拉·西尔韦里奥 Daniela Silverio 饰）的女孩，两个人很快就走到了一起。一天，马维在无缘无故的情况下失踪了，这让尼克罗感到非常的困惑，于是踏上了寻找马维的旅途。
　　途中，尼克罗结识了伊达（克里斯蒂娜·布瓦松 Christine Boisson 饰），他将自己和马维的故事告诉了伊达，激起了伊达的好奇心。在伊达的帮助之下，尼克罗最终得到了马维的住址，但等待他的却并非温暖人心的重逢。尼克罗最终和伊达结了婚，两人在度蜜月的途中伊达告诉自己的丈夫她怀孕了，可是肚子里的孩子却并不是尼克罗的。